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I live in South Florida, and i have the 3.0/384 service from bellsouth. Just recently my latency has gone up around 30ping higher then usual and my download speeds are not consistant. My friend who lives just down the road has the same service but everything is ok. Its definitely not the computer because it happens on all the computers in the house. example, when i ping a server in georgia i normaly get 30ping, recently im getin 50-60 constant. Same problem to other locations (but higher ping obviously). Download speeds vary from 100-300 depending on the day i guess... here are my speedtest.

:::::::::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 2873 Kbps about 2.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 351 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/12/17 - 8:15am
Bottom Line:: 50X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.92 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 8.532 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 92.53 % of your hosts average (bellsouth.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-ZWJEYGUFT
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)

:::::::::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..:::::::::::::::::
Upload Connection is:: 321 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 39 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/12/17 - 8:16am
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 26.26 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 14.766 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 27.38 % faster than the average for host (bellsouth.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-ALX95Y6RS
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)

the tests are fine but still im getin bad ping and i just downloaded something at 200kB/s. What is causing this to happen?

I Have The Same Problem At Times
Not Sure Why It Happens
My line latency is high but still can get the speeds i keep wondering if i could drop that if i would get even better speeds
 

thanks for the reply and help dlewis23, were would u like me to conduct the ping test, what website is good for doing that so i can post results in here? And how do i access my modem options?