[pest]

ACK!!!!!!

This question has been an ongoing issue for me.

My DSL gave me crappy pings compared to my buddy across town on cable. I could not get any better than a 80 ping anywhere, even to our server hosted on the same network in town. So I switch to cable and my ping is crap there too. My buddy can get pings in the 30s to some servers and I cannot break the 70-80 threshold on my best servers and usually 150-200 on other good servers and usually double my buddies ping to identical servers. I thought, maybe its the router, so I remove it from the equation and its still no joy.

It sucks more during high traffic times, but I can still download at blazing speeds (3X my DSL) even when my pings top 200.

Is my only solution to shell out the big bucks for the 1.5g adsl? I am not particularly wanting to go there.

Any ideas?