networking gurus please

[TheShiz]

While playing quake 2 one day I realized that my room mate was getting about 35 ping on the same server I was getting about 45 ping on. I went and downloaded registry files that are supposed to speed up your connection. But they didn't do anything. I even switched network cards a few times. Tried an ISA card and PCI card. Nothing seems to matter. The funny thing is that I pinged at about 35, before I reinstalled windows 98. Any ideas?

Tim

 

[TheShiz]

i've dug deeper into the situation and came up with the following. When pinging from the dos command box the server from both computers (my room mate's and mine), he gets around 20-22ms, while I get 30-31ms on average. Next to the ping time it shows something called TTL, on my room mates computer, TTL always = 50, on mine it always = 51, is this telling anything? When running a traceroute (tracert) from the command prompt to the server. We both ping the same on each stop except the end, where his pings about 10ms faster (20-22ms while I get 30ms about), what is wrong? I went into his registry and copied every value into mine. any ideas?

Tim

 

[Windogg]

There are alot of factroes but the difference seems insignificant. You friend could have a "cleaner" line, faster computer, less system overhead, etc....

Hard to tell without system specs and such but I wouldn't sweat it.

Windogg

 

[TheShiz]

well, my specs are all better also, I don't know. how come when he pings it the TTL is 50, but when I do it is 51, doesn't make any sense.

 

[obenton]

TTL has nothing to do with it - it's just an arbitrary number that's set to kill pings after it hits that number of routers - it's just to keep packets from circulating endlessly.