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Sensibull
Anon
2006-Aug-21 2:02 pm
[Connectivity] Intermittent connection problemsI would greatly appreciate a little help diagnosing my situation. Just recently (last week or so) I have been getting intermittent delays between opening a browser and connecting and/or clicking a link and getting a response. I have several machines running in my house (see below for more details) and all are displaying the same behavior. When the connection is fine, I get very good speeds (using closest speakeasy server [NY] I'm getting 4673 kbps down and 360 kbps up) and everything works fine. When it doesn't, my browser (using both IE and Firefox) gets hung up for anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes. Same thing with email. Problems occur at any time of day, seemingly at random.
OK, some details:
Location: Bloomfield, CT Modem: D-Link DCM-202. (Power, Cable, and Status solid green. Ethernet flashing.) Router: D-Link DI-524, firmware: 1.11 (connected to 3 machines and 1 switch) Switch: SMCGS5 Gigabit switch (connected to 2 machines)
Other notes: 1 box running Win2k. 1 Mac (OS X). 3 boxes running XP Pro. Cable line split once near inlet (TV / cable) and again on TV lines. First split installed by Comcast. Second by me.
Any help much appreciated... |
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steelhead78 Premium Member join:2005-08-23 Carrolltown, PA |
Have you ever tried running with a direct connection from the modem to one of your PC's? |
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snipper_cr Premium Member join:2002-01-22 Wheaton, IL |
to Sensibull
i have been getting a very similar problem here in chicago area. Turned out to be packet loss.
do a 100 count pint to google or dslreports.com using
ping www.google.com -n 100
and see if you are getting any packet loss. i was getting upwards to 10%. |
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thanks for the replies guys.
Snipper... I just did the ping test. Thanks for the suggestion but I only got 1% loss. I'll try it a couple more times, though, because as I said the problem is very intermittent. |
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