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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
IP Spoofing is highly unlikely to be used on a cable modem user, and even then it wouldn't affect the user's download performance at all. It's a way of hijacking a user's legitimate session to get around filtering by source IP and unless the application is very weak it's very difficult.
Denial of service is equally unlikely, unless you've offended the wrong people there's no real reason why anyone'd be doing that.
Firewalls offer no protection at all against spoofing or denial of service unless they are hardware firewalls, and even then the main issue with a home connection is running out of bandwidth usually rather than the resource killing DoS attacks done on higher bandwidth boxes.
It's likely the same thing that was causing issues with pings, which should now be resolved 
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sygate firewall works against this, sucessfully ?