Cable Modem Signal Level

[zullz]

Hi all

I've just joined Virgin media 20 meg connection after painful year with AOL.

Are these signal reading right? reason I ask is I play online gaming and if I host games everybody connection who's connected to me is terrible, thought going 20 meg would be idea for gaming.

Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 3
Downstream Frequency : 586750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM64
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : -8.8 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 31.5 dB

Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 3
Upstream Frequency : 42800000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 56.5 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

I have already spent about £10 to there tech department trying to find fault they said it was my router (Belkin) they recommended Netgear, So I went out and paid £109 for one from PC world , hooked it all up and still same poor results.

[starbug]

Originally Posted by zullz

Hi all

I've just joined Virgin media 20 meg connection after painful year with AOL.

Are these signal reading right? reason I ask is I play online gaming and if I host games everybody connection who's connected to me is terrible, thought going 20 meg would be idea for gaming.

Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 3
Downstream Frequency : 586750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM64
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : -8.8 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 31.5 dB

Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 3
Upstream Frequency : 42800000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 56.5 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

I have already spent about £10 to there tech department trying to find fault they said it was my router (Belkin) they recommended Netgear, So I went out and paid £109 for one from PC world , hooked it all up and still same poor results.

Its ideal for playing on game servers, not hosting them.

[manxminx]

thought going 20 meg would be idea for gaming

20 Mbps is the 'maximum' download speed. Upload speeds are a LOT lot less. Another problem with gaming is latency issues.

You maybe should have done your homework before signing up?

Still, welcome to the forums, I'm sure that if you search through the posts and threads here you'll learn a lot.

Ali.

[zullz]

I use playstation 3 for gaming so hosting games is sometimes only option. I did bit of research and from what I found out 700 kbps is enough to host up to 12 persons I get problems way before 12 people connect.

So take it my signal strength is fine?

[vmuser027]

I thought the Downstream power level looked a little low?

[Axegrinder]

It is, -/+ 3db is ideal.

upstream is quite hight too, watch it doesnt go much higher thn that.