Home Network Trouble...

[Infernix]

Well I guess ill start here on trying to slove my problem....So.

Im trying to figure out why my home cable network seems to run slower than a friends of mine. We live in the same area and all but it seems that he runs online games soomther than I do.

I run a 2.9ghz Pentium 4 with a X850pro
He runs a AMD [email protected] with a X800XT

Im begining to think that I may be time to get a new cable modem since not only does it run slow I get a huge amount of lag anytimes someone does downloading off limewire or somthing on another computer connected to the network.

So do I need a new able modem or is there a way I can decrease to lag I recieve that is caused by my home cable network?