Testing router?

[Team Obi Juan]

Is there a way to test if my router is shitty or if it's just my internet.

I'm using a Linksys BEFSR41 ver. 3. I'm in a new apartment, so I don't really know what to expect from the internet here, and I haven't used this router in 4 months or so, and don't remember its performance back then. I THINK it was good. I don't really use torrents, only tried it a couple of times over the summer, but it was with my roommates router.

Basically, I'll be in CS playing, and I'll get ping spikes. Like it'll go 8, 175, 32, 16, 78, 50, 150, and then back down to a constant 8-20 for a while. 8-20 is my norm. Occasionally I'll get really bad lag, like i'll be jumping all over the place, but that settles. My main problem is that it'll just drop the connection. It will ususally just say "Warning: Connection Error", and then I know it's done so I wait a few minutes and rejoin the server. Occasionally it'll snap out of the Connection Error message and give me a CL FlushEntityPacket error and then slowly resume to normal.

I don't have a router to test against, my only option is to get out from behind the router and I don't really want to do that. I don't play regularly seeing how busy I am, but I'd say this will happen once a gaming session usually. My sessions are an hour max.

Any help?


EDIT:

And sometimes both Xfire and Gaim will get disconnected at the same time.

 

[∞Velocitymaster∞]

First of all whats your internet type; cable or DSL?
Try making a direct connection to the internet, thats by passing the router. In this test you don't use the router at all. Plug your modem streight to your PC.
Then do that with the router, you'll see.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Plug your modem streight to your PC.
Then do that with the router, you'll see.

Wanna make sure your PC is locked down secure before doing that..software firewall is up, no blank Administrator password, all windows updates, AV up to date. Only takes but 5-10 seconds for your PC to get hit if she's on a public IP address.