smc barricade= lower ping

[osaurus]

new install off smc 7004abr router adds ping 40ns to 51ns to 1st hop @ pacbell. is this normal? i noticed the MTU is capped at 1412 and the MMS@1372, i think it should be 1492/1462. for gaming this really limits the servers i can play on. running win98se any comments would be a help. firmware updated,win 98se left alone(netblui and tcp/ip still running) router pppoe working fine.

 

[Santa]

Windows TCP/IP Stack has much overhead.

I take it since you are mention hop you are using tracert in Windows command prompt.

I think Win98SE has the -d option try
tracert -d <address>

This should reduce some of the overhead in name resolution and give you a little better ping time to compare against.

I don't think your problem lies in your diagnoistics of your ping rate.

What is the problem you are having with the game servers?

 

[osaurus]

thx santa, the tracert -d showed a hop where my ns went from 20ns to 43ns at 144.232.9.250 which is sl-bb22-fw-10-1 sprintlink.net. this is my 1st home network installation which means that i put in the router and took it out several times before i was sure i had it configured right. this is how i noticed the nic, modem connection with EnterNet 300 was 20ns faster than the nic,router,modem connection with router pppoe, when connecting to my isp, pacbell. with the increassed access time i find less servers with playable pings. i've requsted a firmware update from SMC but doubt that will happen. i'm running win98se with dhcp, tcp/ip and netblui are all three required?

 

[Jhereg]

All you really need it TCP/IP You can disable DHCP on the router/LAN side and give yourself a static IP on your machine.
NetBUEI is not that usefull inless you are planning to run a few machines on your network and want them to use it for file and print sharing instead of TCP/IP ( which is highly recommended since NetBUEI is not routable )