Dialup is fast, but DSL is slow?

[Ososlow]

I still play original starcraft on battle.net and I just got Bellsouth DSL. I also just got a new computer, and this is one of the first times I've played it. When I play battle.net games with more than one other person the game lags, while it plays fine when I play one on one, or two vs four comps. I signed on with my backup dial-up account and it plays fine, but I only get 20 hrs of that a month, and I want to be able to use my DSL. I tested my DSL connection at Toast.net and it said that I am running at 1251 K, which is better than their sample ADSL. It runs in the T1 range.

Also, I can only see the text of one person during the game, and that has been the game host so far.

I'm playing on windows 98 using Bellsouth DSL with a westell ethernet modem and without a router. At least, i think without a router, the modem they sent me says DSL router on the bottom, but i haven't set it up or anything. However, it did give me a strange IP address for myself 192.258.1.1 which is similar to an assigned ip address. If you can help please do. Thank you.

 

[Swilo]

Sounds like you got ganked by your ISP.
They're running serverside NAT of some sort to share one external IP between thousands of users.
Battle.net is known to have nasty nasty horribly icky nasty ewwish problems with routers that forward ports.

I'd contact your ISP and see about getting your own external IP address, or complain that their service isn't adequate for your needs.

 

[Unregistered]

Most DSL modems have some form of crappy router built into them. Mine for example is a netdsl800. Its features are: DHCP for a subnet of 3 whole ip addresses (it being one of those ip addresses...), and that's it... No port forwarding, no nothing. Luckily I don't host daemons on my machines, otherwise I'd have tossed it in the trashcan as soon as I read that.

-- Magickian, because I'm too lazy to login