haxors on my network?

Muriden

Is it more likely than I think?

For the past few days my internet connection has been damned slow. I have 7 megabit cable from Cox Communications my ping is decent (80ms) when pinging websites and such but WoW latency is horrid (900 ms).

How can I see what traffic is happening on my network?

EDIT:
I should probably go into a bit more detail about my set up. Two desktops on a Linksys WRT54G Router. I've disabled wireless in the router for the time being since we don't have a use for it so I don't believe my neighbor is leeching bandwidth from me (though I don't know). Once again would like a tool to see traffic on my network.

exis

Muriden wrote: »

Is it more likely than I think?

For the past few days my internet connection has been damned slow. I have 7 megabit cable from Cox Communications my ping is decent (80ms) when pinging websites and such but WoW latency is horrid (900 ms).

How can I see what traffic is happening on my network?

EDIT:
I should probably go into a bit more detail about my set up. Two desktops on a Linksys WRT54G Router. I've disabled wireless in the router for the time being since we don't have a use for it so I don't believe my neighbor is leeching bandwidth from me (though I don't know). Once again would like a tool to see traffic on my network.

This might be a WoW thing. My latency is usually between 250-400. The past few days (post 2.20) it's been almost 1000.

meeker

Possibly not all the bugs worked out from the voice chat? If you had slow ping times from other sites, then I would worry.

Veevee

If your neighbors who also have cable internet use a lot of badwidth, that slows the whole neighborhood down. Add a couple people doing that and you will result a 7 mbit connection acting like 1 mbit or less.

Muriden

I've been considering these things but am still not entirely convinced. I had used a program before called Link Logger to monitor traffic on a network in a place I had previously lived but the trial for it has run out. Does anyone know of a similar utility to do this?

neth

your router should have a page that shows you all teh IP addresses it has leased and the computer name and MAC addresses associated with them. look and see if all teh ones it has leased are yours, if not, then someone is possibly leeching your connections.

EclecticGroove

neth wrote: »

your router should have a page that shows you all teh IP addresses it has leased and the computer name and MAC addresses associated with them. look and see if all teh ones it has leased are yours, if not, then someone is possibly leeching your connections.

That would be highly unlikely unless his wireless was on or it was a combo wireless router/modem.

More than likely his local node is getting saturated if anything. Other than that it could just be standard network issues in the area or on his own network/PC.

Power Cycling his equipment would be the first step if he has not done so.

meeker

Just to quantify your OP, you say:
-Your internet is slow
-Yet your ping is fine
-WoW is really bad

The logic here is that there is no problem with your internet, but rather with WoW. As they just completely changed the way packets are handled (i.e Added Voice Chat), this assumption is supported by facts. Now we also have corroboration by another WoW user in this thread as well.

You have wireless turned off, I am assuming you have a firewall, the chances of somone hacking your machine are slim to none.

Google "bandwidth Test" and try some of those. I bet they spit out a number very near 7 mb.

a penguin

I gotta ask...

Did you set up the security on your wireless router? PSK and all that jazz?

You should be able to lock that thing down tight enough where Joe Schmo isn't going to be able to leach your connection.

Also, I'll add to the "Latency sucks with WoW after patches." Mine was crap yesterday, too.

Muriden

Yeah I did set up WPA-TKIP for our wireless with a decently complex password. But that shouldn't matter now as I've disabled it on the router through it's configuration page.

I've been running a speed test from speedtest.net and am getting drastically varied results during different times of the day. As of this writing 8mb/s down 391 kb/s up. As of last night when I first posted it was 200kb/s down and 390ish kb/s up. Which lends credit to neighborhood saturation of the network.