"Comcast is terribly slow"

I live right outside of Philadelphia. Im having major issues with my internet. I play a game called counter-strike online with my brother. Whenever i connect to a server by myself I usually see a ping of about 80-120...on every single server. Even the ones that are close to me. But when my brother connects to the same server as me we get a ping of 450-500. I dont no if this is a bandwidth issue and that I can just call comcast and ask for the Home Networking plan...which states that comcast gives you extra bandwidth. Do you think this would help if I bought the plan?

well if you just use a router which you proberly already are useing, comcast will not provide you with more bandwidth they need to know you want networking in order to support both computers, espically with a good graphic type of game. but when it comes to home networking its pretty expensive, but yes its proberly the best thing you can do to have a good running connection

Useing a hub rather than a switch or a hub-like router rather then a switch like one. not having buffering capacity in the router could do that to maybe. could try uninstalling qos and net monitors (tcpip is all you really need), decreasing/increasing mtu, disabling lan support while gaming. pathping in the dos prompt and find two good routes with the closest possible fork (windows 2000 command reference in the windows help file has command to do that).