Ping/Speed is a Rollercoaster

[Blakestr]

Literally I can watch my ping going from down to WAYYYY UP, very slow. One second I will be at 50 ms and then it slides to 1000 range. Clearly unacceptable. I am using Comcast cable in Jacksonville and am trying to help pinpoint the problems. Like I said, I would classify the symptom as a rollercoaster effect. Fast and slow, and so on. I reset my modem, reboot, the basics, but other than that I have no clue what is causing it.

My roommate has hooked into the 2nd network card on my computer and perhaps that is the cause but I simply do not know enough to be sure of that and I am not sure if that would cause this symptoms I am experiencing. (If it is, that is a simple fix, hehe, *click*)

Running following

XP on Abit KV8 Pro
AMD 64 3000 +
Radeon 9800 Pro
Onboard LAN card (o the KV8)
Linksys NiC
1 Gig Kingston DDR 400

Thanks for the help.

 

[deadoralive]

well... how about you do the obvious and unplug his computer and see if that helps. if it does... maybe you should get a router to hook up both computers to the network.

 

[Hartlove]

Whenever I have that problem, it's usually because I forgot that I'm running a P2P program in the background.