Best modem for gaming (cstrike)

[HotWire]

Sorry, if this is off topic but I need some helpful advise for a friend who plays on my server...... he is getting high ping rates at times....400+ and the question is? Does anyone know if a modem better and stronger than his Aopen 56K...maybe a US Robotics V92 will give him better ping rates.....he lives about 6-8 miles away from me and has no access to either cable or DSL where he lives. He is an avid gamer and never gets under 160 he has tried AOL's dish for high speed access but forget it it's no better than his 56K in fact it's terrible. His machine has speed 1.3 Gig AMD with a A7V266 mother board and over 256 mgs of ram.......at a loss for my friend

 

[minendo]

i was getting pings around 150 with my US Robotics 56k Fax Modem. it all depends on teh ISP though. is he using AOL? i used to try playing with AOL but pings were terrible

 

[HotWire]

Yes, he is using AOL do you think he would be better off buying his ISP from a local telephone company?

 

[minendo]

there is a chance that he would be better off but no guarantees. you also have to take into effect the phone lines. if the phone lines in his house are older its going to be slower conenections

 

[HotWire]

What kind of test can he do to find out his upload and download capabilities?

 

[minendo]

not really sure on that. but when he is online he should run a test at DSLReports.com to see what his true connection speed is.

 

[minendo]

Speed Test

 

[Shack70]

You can try doing this too:
goto SpeedGuide and dload a patch to update you setting for optimals speed. There is also a TCP/IP analyzer that can give you some info about your connection

 

[Dill]

chances are his local phone company's isp would be better. AOL is usually horribly lagged, and I don't know if this matters or not, but they don't even use the native windows tcp/ip stack, it installs its own goofy setup.

by far the best modem ever made is the USR Courier V. Everything. I thought I had a nice 56k modem until I broke down and got one of these puppies on ebay for 52 dollars. Upped my connect speed from 38k to 46.6 and lowered my pings about 25ms on average. It owns for a dialup.

 

[HotWire]

Thanks Dill, for the welcome and useful advise