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if your down stream speed and up stream speed of your ISP have a large difference that can cause punting. you can type BAND WIDTH TEST in your search box and find alot of web sights offering free test. now for my question. i just got a hp pavilion a818n. i can host games fine but trying to join a game the game,DFLW,DFTFD, and DFLW demo all stop responding at the joining game page. the only thing i can do to join is go into msconfig, services and turn off Windows Audio, but without sound it's not much of a game. i've talked to hp and novalogic three times and i here the same thing every time. update this update that. well i've updated till im blue in the face and it has'nt changed a thing.i'm running xp. but i've run xp on my dell and join every time without a problem. does anybody have an idea? or even a mabey this will work?