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Yes I am

. . .mostly Joint Operations (NovaLogic) and somtimes Dawn of War.

what do you play?

. . .and what was the "Yes I am" in reference too?

yeah any recommendaions on ISP's

DMN ~ I just changed my settings, again ~ lol
. . .but I stayed connected during peak hours

new cablenut settings; [online gaming]

DefaultReceiveWindow = 8192
DefaultSendWindow = 4096
DisableAddressSharing = 1
InitialLargeBufferCount = 1
InitialMediumBufferCount = 24
InitialSmallBufferCount = 32
LargeBufferSize = 4096
MaxFastTransmit = 640
MediumBufferSize = 1504
PriorityBoost = 0
SmallBufferSize = 128
TransmitWorker = 32
FastSendDatagramThreshold = 1024
EnableFastRouteLookup = 1
EnablePMTUDiscovery = 1
IgnorePushBitOnReceives = 0
GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize = 8760
MaxFreeTcbs = 8000
MaxHashTableSize = 16384
MaxNormLookupMemory = 5000000
SackOpts = 1
SynAttackProtect = 1
Tcp1323Opts = 0
TcpLogLevel = 1
MaxDupAcks = 2
TcpMaxHalfOpen = 100
TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried = 80
TcpRecvSegmentSize = 1460
TcpSendSegmentSize = 1460
TcpTimedWaitDelay = 30
TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer = 0
TcpWindowSize = 8760
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 8
MaxConnectionsPerServer = 4
DefaultTTL = 128
DisableUserTOSSetting = 0
TcpMaxDataRetransmissions = 6 
DefaultTOSValue = 96

In my game.cfg file I set my
mpmaxpacketsize = "800"

DMN, If you have not already done so try out all the access numbers that are local to you some are routed differently and may offer a better/ higher connection. Try using other isp access numbers as well.
Even if you do connect at higher speeds keep in mind you may recieve alot of modem errors. When it comes to dial up alot of times Slow is fast, Fast is slow.

Like cholla said if you can, make your own cat5 twisted pair line run it directly from the wall into the comp. That's how I do mine you can find the items you need at radio shack fairly inexpensive.

Do you have a satellite? If so make sure your satt. box is not plugged into another jack in the house

DMN, In some cases such as mine by placing 3 commas in the preffix and/or suffix both ie. ( ,,,555-5555,,, ) gives your modem time to make a more reliable/faster connection.

DMN ~ have you looked in your game folder for the game.cfg file?
. . .you might be able to lower the packet size there.

Do you recieve Errors in your Connection Status?
In your Modem Protocal ~ Enable Modem Error Control

and try setting the Modem IRQ Priority tweak.

right click My Computer > Properties > under Hardware Tab
open Device Manager > click on View and Resourses by type
click on Interrupt request (IRQ)
find which IRQ## is assigned to your modem

goto Start > Run type regedit and goto the PriorityControl
branch of  local_machine and what ever IRQ## is given to your modem ~
create a new value name dword  Irq##Priority
and modify the value data = 1 hexadecimal base

It should end up looking like this with the ## being
the number of your modems IRQ

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
\PriorityControl

Irq##Priority      REG_DWORD      0x00000001 (1)

create and add; (while your there)
 
Win32PrioritySeparation     REG_DWORD    0x00000026  (38)
[use hexadecimal base]

this will give more priority to what is in the forefront ~ what you see on the screen.