Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
I should have specified, I'm using a Mac with the wireless. I have a piece of shit windows laptop plugged directly into the cable modem. I'm not even sure how to change the channle on a Mac. If I still had windows I prob would have been able to fumble around and either completely destroyed it or inadvertantly fixed it. With this damn thing I can't seem to do either...

Thanks for the advice guys. I will try some of that out in a little bit, it is very random though. Right now everything is loading perfectly fine. Other times I can be standing right next to and it wont work...
Now it sounds more like a lagging internet than a router problem... and wired is far superior to wireless,,,sometimes a stupid phone could interfer with a wireless connection...

I don't know mac but if you open a command prompt in the windows wired machine and type ---vvvv---

ping 72.32.246.221 -l 1460 -t >cdot-ping.txt

You will get a text file in the folder your command prompt is open in C:/Document and Setting/ named cdot-ping.txt that when opened in wordpad looke like this ---vvv---



Pinging 72.32.246.221 with 1460 bytes of data:



Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=72ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=56ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=223ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=61ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=71ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47



Notice the consistent pings 50 to 60 MS "Milliseconds" if yours is not consistent and like spikes to hundreds or thousands or shows "Timed Out" on some,,,then you got a problem with your ISP and need to straighten things with them...