Can't ping on my new DSL

[willhart]

Hey guys, I was just curious to find out my new DSL's latency. My old DSL Verizon in washington sucked, it took 20ms to get to my gateway and then it took 3 more hops before I left their routers and by the time I left their last router and was out on the web I was already at 45ms. Most of my friends on different DSL's or Cablemodems ping their gateway and by the time they leave their last router and are out on the web they're still <10ms. I'm a big game player and network latency is something big to me. On both my new and old DSL's I'm getting pretty much max 756 and 128kbs upload, but I'm finding out that I'm getting pretty much the same latency on games which is 100ms minimum, while most others on a server will have 40-60ms.

My question to you guys is how to find out packet trip time without using ping or tracert on a windows XP system. For some stupid reason my new DSL has claimed that the blaster worms are using both ping and traceroute, so they've blocked all traceroutes and pings because they were getting flooded and their routers were crashing. I've already tried to convince them to turn it back on, but they won't budge. They say they will probably turn it back on soon, but not yet. In the mean time I need to try to find out a way to basically do the same thing a traceroute will do, but without using traceroute.

I've looked for different programs the only one that I found tried to ping using the winsock.dll but that didn't work either. My ISP is IceHouse www.icehouse.net.

Do any of you network Guru's know of a program that will help me out?