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"Visine" <darrend43notthisbit@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:l5SdnaLd98ew6QXanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com...
> Doh did not read sorry.
>
> Try these links
>
> http://www.chetnet.co.uk/
>
> http://www.cableforum.co.uk/
>
> Looking at your setup it does seem a bit odd.
>
> For best results you should have your modem in to a router then all your 
> other pc's connected to your router.  Which you could set up for band 
> width allocation, port forwarding etc for servers and games and P2P if 
> needed.
>
> You say you have 2 network connections running from 1 PC a giganet and a 
> 10/100.  I hope you do not have the P2P running at the same time as you 
> are trying to game as that will be your network problems right there 
> especially if P2P is up/downloading fast.
>
> Virgin have you on a 4mb modem??  seems awfully slow, the standard modem 
> will run up to 30mb at the moment.  I have a 20mb at home and its rock 
> solid.
>
> It could be your modem will go much fast but you are on the "L" upto 4 mb 
> package.
>
> Does your packet loss stay constant through out the day??
>
> If it varies you may be in an area where virgin are now over subscribed 
> and you are in contention with the others on the UBR for your street.
>
> When you next get a Virgin Tech visit get him to ensure the Input power 
> levels to your modem are spot on.  Too weak or strong have both caused 
> problems for me.  I had to get them in the past to turn up the signal 
> level for the whole street as they had been adding customers but not 
> adjusting power levels to match new demand.
>
> Those links should help
>
> Virgin is wonderfull when it works.  But when it does not :-(
>
> PS when you next see a tech ask him how much he gets for a call out.  you 
> will be shocked
>
> TTFN
>
> Vis
I've been running diagnostics and so have cable support tracert checked 
ports modem interrogation etc . It seems the problem is varience in the 
signal levels the difficulty being that the problem is not consistant that 
and some very odd tracerts reading within the NTL  system dodgy or 
overloaded router.
The network setup is a legacy from NTL  days when they would not support 
more than one machine on a  STB  connection nor allow a  router, so the 
quick and dirty way was to have the most used machine as the gateway and 
have the network run off that, we have had 4 machines running simultaneously 
with no great problems. As we do not file share, these days most of the 
bandwidth eating operations we run are net-radio and UT hardly a problem on 
4 meg. Could be putting a router on the CM would be a good long term 
solution I will have to check what VM are advising in that respect every 
little helps .
The packet loss is unpredictable I could play a game and see <5% next game I 
am a slide monkey and it spikes the thick end of 50% which is when I quit 
rather than ruin the game for other players and get deeply annoyed at the 
end sudden of my stress relief................
( which btw gopostal is when I dont really give a toss about punctuation or 
come to that grammer - when the adrenaline takes over :-) .Those (.....) are 
I should point full stops or they were when my English Language teacher was 
alive around 30some years ago and a period is time related division.  :-) 
bug me and we will come and tax your Tea.

Nick_ Dastardly
and I never said bloody colonials .........oops :-)