Hi. My connection is really, really messed up. I'm trying to figure out if its just me, or it actually is a sudden, major change in my network.

Here's where I am now. I cannot ping most game servers. The few that I can ping, after I join the server I'm totally lagged out (and get booted by the anti-cheat things because my comp didnt respond to the checkers)

I disconnected my router, because I thought that might be the issue. It wasn't. But dslreports speed test shows me at 1300/1900kbps dl/ul respectively, and the tweak test shows nothing out of the ordinary. This happened, (literally) over night. Tried to log into a game server this afternoon, no dice. But I was fragging away last night.

I tried pinging some web servers. on the command line, I did 'ping Yahoo!' it found Yahoo!, and posted its ip address. then it said request has timed out (4x). And yet, if I boot up IE, I have no problem getting to Yahoo!. Hell, here I am, posting on this forum. I've been talking to some guys on an IRC chat too--everyone is confounded by this issue. Ideas?

*Edit: I thought I'd add that the game I'm playing is "tribes" (the original). I dont think I have any other net games installed, but if that comes to be an important diagnostic test I will find one and install it.