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"Derek" <del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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>I have been having serious problems with my connection since before 
>christmas with enormous packet loss >35% and ping spiking into the 
>stratosphere I'm working with the ISP Virgin Media to resolve it and due a 
>3rd tech visit this week  so if I've slid past you at any point sorry but I 
>can't help it.
> Anyway in the course of testing the tech supp thought it could be a 
> problem at my end  so I fitted a new cable modem which proved even worse 
> then I started to question my computer its way more than capable of 
> running UT at Hi settings with a gig of pc3200 ram an Athlon XP 3200+ and 
> a geforce 5900xt it hits FR better than 100fps so its not struggling maybe 
> the NIC ?   well not really its a gigabit connected to a 4 meg cable modem 
> so it should fly the second NIC is a 10/100 to connect herself to the net 
> ( peer to peer) maybe I should stop being stingy and spring for another 
> gigabit so the Lan is running faster then I saw a horrendously expensive 
> accelerated NIC with its own onboard processor that offloads the 
> networking form the CPU.
> Question: would you really spend this much to gain a slight edge gaming ?
> ( provided of course you are not Fatal1ty  Johnathon Wendel )
> http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(24576)KillerNIC-M1-online-gaming-network-accelerator.aspx
>
> like the heat sink tho very UT
>
> Nick-Dastardly
>

First off, take these:

(..........)

Those are periods. Use them. It makes your postings way easier to read.

Now, there is no reason to go all crazy. Use Occam's razor to diagnose the 
problem. Have you disabled your firewall to see if that's it? Cable is 
terrible at giving actual speeds advertised, especially at peak times. Have 
you done a speed test to see if you are getting what you think you have? 
Have you done a traceroute to see if there are bottlenecks somewhere? Is it 
confined to UT or do other games give problems?
Don't think the "techs" are anything other than guys who took two semesters 
of computer science in high school. Find the problem yourself. You have the 
tools, google a little know-how and you'll get it fixed.