High Ping on Own Server. (Not solved via old posts)

[Runicmyst]

Im running on cable win 98 .. no firewall and datarat at 10.0 and im still getting terrible packet loss and ping.... it running a normal server on my own with no one else on it atm. Does anyone have any furthur advice?

[Shawn319]

set datarate to 7.0 and try again.. also, try trimming off 1-3 of the zone.exe's (just close the window but make sure at least two are running).

[Runicmyst]

Its still very bad... =( any other ideas?

[Runicmyst]

i tried that message thing to replace the messages source and it worked for about 3 hours... then i got stuck in dreadlands and had to #movechar and now its instant linkdead again.... wtf?