Home Networking - High Ping.

I am running a LAN from home with 5 pc's and we are connecting through
and cable line in town. We have 30 ping individually from this cable
line on one computer connected to it. We connect the cable line
through a D-Link model 604 and connect 3 of our home computers to the
three first ports. We use our last port to connect a crossover cable
to an switch, which is another D-Link switch. And connect the two
remaining computers to the switch and once we all enter an
Counter-Strike game we have a ping of 400+. Any ideas if it is just
the router... or something external. We have also forwarded the
necesary ports that we need to use the programs.

"Shawn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am running a LAN from home with 5 pc's and we are connecting through
> and cable line in town. We have 30 ping individually from this cable
> line on one computer connected to it.

Do you mean that if any one computer is used to play Counter-Strike on an
Internet-based server, the ping is 30ms?

> once we all enter an Counter-Strike game we have a ping of 400+.

Do you mean when all five computers connect to an Internet-based server?

If the answers to both my questions are "yes", then this is most probably
due to upstream saturation. The only fixes are to reduce the bandwidth used
by each player, or the number of players.

It is unlikely that your problem is due to your internal network equipment
or its configuration.

Alex

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >, Shawn
says...
> I am running a LAN from home with 5 pc's and we are connecting through
> and cable line in town. We have 30 ping individually from this cable
> line on one computer connected to it. We connect the cable line
> through a D-Link model 604 and connect 3 of our home computers to the
> three first ports. We use our last port to connect a crossover cable
> to an switch, which is another D-Link switch. And connect the two
> remaining computers to the switch and once we all enter an
> Counter-Strike game we have a ping of 400+. Any ideas if it is just
> the router... or something external. We have also forwarded the
> necesary ports that we need to use the programs.
>
Situation normal I'd expect.

--
Conor

Normality will be restored once we work out what normality actually is.