I get 200ms average in Counter-Strike:Source on 3-mbit cable.

[Daniel]

I have Mediacom Cable. *barf*
I have a NetGear WGT624v3 wireless router. *more barf*
I am on a wired connection.
I get terrible ping. I get autokicked from ever server for high ping. *dies*

Here's the wierd thing:
I'll be playing CS and on Ventrilo, I get dropped from both. My modem lights read as normal when there is a connection, and I can immediately reconnect. All computers on my net do it. I have made sure there is nothing hogging bandwidth.

My dad won't give me the router password, he changed it and won't let me access it. He runs unkeyed WLAN with a broadcasted SSID. *If I had any more to upchuck, I would.*

Thanks in advance,
d4nny

[korrupted]

Make sure you have your settings set to cable/TI or higher, and your ingame settings are optimized.

[Daniel]

My connection setting is correct.

What do you mean by optimized? How would the game affect Ventrilo and all other connections?

[brian_holiday]

I had the same problem with cable, in fact I still have it sometimes.

Open a command window and type:

tracert ea.com

(I know this isn't an EA game, the server is very stable and responds well.)

Now look at the replies and see where the ping goes WAY up. On mine it was at the border between the cable company and Sprint. The only way to get it fixed is to complain, complain, and complain some more. Eventually Mediacom will listen.

[Fox McCloud 1990]

My dad won't give me the router password, he changed it and won't let me access it. He runs unkeyed WLAN with a broadcasted SSID. *If I had any more to upchuck, I would.*

At least get the wireless secured, someone else might be hogging your bandwidth.
better yet, while he's in there, see if you can sneak a peek at any port shaping he's got on there, just to make sure.
also, try just running steam without that other program, and run tracert on different servers, game, site, and otherwise.
Worst comes to worst, there's a reset button on the back of the router, say your friend did it.

[Daniel]

Umm...

C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel>tracert ea.com

Tracing route to ea.com [159.153.235.27]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * ^C




C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel>tracert steampowered.com

Tracing route to steampowered.com [63.228.223.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * ^C

Why?

[magnum]

A firewall is most likely blocking it, it worked fine for me. Since it timed out immediately I assume that the problem is local. (On your network.)

[brian_holiday]

The 192.168.1.1 address is your default gateway, probably the router that your Dad has set up. He has it blocking outbound ICMP, IMO, for no good reason. You may have found your problem.

If this were your router, I would suggest holding in the reset button and rebooting it. That would clear the configuration and allow you to get back in and reconfigure it. Since it isn't, and you will get caught, I would be the perfect son this week and catch him in a good mood then explain the problem. Perhaps he will work with you.

[Daniel]

Since my WLAN is unprotected, would someone be able to sniff my dad's router username and password packet going to the router? *wink* I'd hate for someone to do that! Gosh.

[Limp_Trizkit]

There are plenty of ways in which even a "secured" wireless access point could be exploited. I might have been known to try a few of them out on unsuspecting neighbors...though you'll never know for sure.

Theoretically, one such idea would be that one could implement a man-in-the-middle attack over the wireless and capture it that way. This could be accomplished using such a tool as the venerable Cain.

And a few considerations before one possibly goes through all the trouble of setting this up:
One might find that your father has the router password saved in his browser of choice. Assuming that person had physical access to the computer, they could confirm that, and assuming the confirmation is positive, extract the password.
One might also try some common passwords, or things that anyone who knows your father might guess as passwords. Theoretically, one of my neighbors used the name of one of their pets, and (also theoretically) one of them used their SSID as the WEP key as well.
We're still talking theoretically, right?

[Daniel]

Yeah, theoretically. ;)

Are the authorization packets for routers encrypted or are they hashed in some sort of way?

Is ARP Poisoning any different for wireless LAN? Could someone, theoretically of course, use their wired computer to do a man-in-the-middle attack between a wireless router and a laptop, if of course they were on the same LAN? Which they aren't. Of course not.

And I lied,
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel>tracert ea.com

Tracing route to ea.com [159.153.235.27]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 62 ms 62 ms 98 ms www.ea.com [159.153.235.27]

Trace complete.tracert works. Eventually.

[brian_holiday]

Interesting you should bring up man in the middle. A buddy I work with had a similar problem. His Dad was on a trip and the network started having issues. What he found was that if he took his own router and placed it between his Dads router and the outbound cable modem, he could set up a wireless network that went 'around' the restricted one. You could also just plug your laptop into the cable modem directly for troubleshooting.

I have to stop helping at this point, if I say anymore they will kick me out of the 'Dad' union and I will have to hang out with Soccer moms. :)

[aarathi]

please say the dad to give the correct password