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I have a surfboard 3100 cable modem. I don't have a single connection however. I have a 3 person connection (means it will allow 3 ip's - so I can use just a plain switch connected to cable modem and connect 3 computers.). Anyway, I needed the ability to have more than 3 computers connected so I invested in a Cable/DSL router. NOw heres the problem. All the 4 of my comptuers can connect. However, when the fourth connects, my pings goes to hell. For example. By myself or with two others I average approx around 120 ping to my game servers and such. But I connect the fourth to internet and all my pings on all the machines go to like 850 ping!!! Web browsing is almost impossible due to the high pings, I keep getting disconnected. Is it possible that I'm using up my bandwidth on a cable modem? That can't be. My cable company has a plan to allow 10 computers connected to them through a single cable modem (that's just using a switch connected to the cable modem, so you physically have 10 different ip's, but using the same modem), so it should handle 4 through a router. Any ideas?
I have a surfboard 3100 cable modem. I don't have a single connection however. I have a 3 person connection (means it will allow 3 ip's - so I can use just a plain switch connected to cable modem and connect 3 computers.). Anyway, I needed the ability to have more than 3 computers connected so I invested in a Cable/DSL router. NOw heres the problem. All the 4 of my comptuers can connect. However, when the fourth connects, my pings goes to hell. For example. By myself or with two others I average approx around 120 ping to my game servers and such. But I connect the fourth to internet and all my pings on all the machines go to like 850 ping!!! Web browsing is almost impossible due to the high pings, I keep getting disconnected. Is it possible that I'm using up my bandwidth on a cable modem? That can't be. My cable company has a plan to allow 10 computers connected to them through a single cable modem (that's just using a switch connected to the cable modem, so you physically have 10 different ip's, but using the same modem), so it should handle 4 through a router. Any ideas?