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reply to Irish Shark

Re: Suffering with 60 sec page loads

• The dup NIC FAQ is a little hard to follow. It is really a cosmetic thing. What you enter for the MTU is global to all adapters.

• Just to tidy things up, change your RWIN to 50820

• What worked in the FAQ and what did you find?
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"You can observe a lot by watching". Yogi Berra

Ok so here is the story.

I noticed my Bittorrents not having the DL speed I once had. In the past I have seen 300-450kbps. These last few months I am lucky to see anything over 100kbps. I got tired of it and jumped to the speedtests to see what might be going on. The tests were erratic at best ranging from 1500 to 4700 but usually 3600. Historic benchmarks were just over 5000.

After being threatened with a truck roll, and being out-of-work broke, I took my equipment to the phone-box. Right there I got a rock stable 5110kbps. The speakeasy needle not jumbling around or anything. So this prompted the Q, what is going on in the house???

I unplugged EVERYTHING in the house… including the refrigerator and unplugged the telephone. The only things plugged in the whole house were the computer, monitor, modem and the WRT54GX modem. Speedtests were consistent at 4700 but why the drop of 400k from the phone box??? I took the Router off line and connected to the modem directly. Then I got 5085kbps!!! The modem was responsible for loosing 400k of bandwidth right off the top. I then bought a used Netopia 3346n-002 in the mean time and that is what we have been working with here.

Anyway, I started my BT’s to give me time to think about this some more. I started plugging things back in around the house with no ill effects. Then, just to get something to listen to in the house I turned on my 3 month old 54 inch plasma TV. My BT download speed took a nose dive. I did not believe it at first, so I turned it back off, then on, then off and to my surprise, there was an exact correlation. I jump to the speedtests and they are again all over the map.

So what I have been doing since learning of this is getting the Netopia online to serve the bittorrents with the old Linksys as the wireless access point. The Netopia somehow introduced the stalls/freezing. Everything seems to be configured and working well now. I don’t mind the wireless loosing 400k so now I am good to go.

Now what I am left working on is why the Plasma TV sends my connection into the toilet. It is plugged into the wall,. that that is all. There is however a phone jack right behind it. I am wondering if the TV is feeding into the phone line from there even if there is no circuitry connected to the phone jack. My next step is to deactivate the jack from the phone box outside and see what happens.

Have you ever heard of anything like this? Anything special you would do if you were me?

Thanks for the updated RWIN

Until Later,
Eric

oh yes... what worked in the FAQ was assigning a static IP to the computer. This got rid of the stall/delays or at least make things much more tolerable.

Last night I went out to the phone box to deactivate the line that runs behind the Plasma TV. I thought I was able to control whether a plug was live or not from there. I guess I was wrong. I may have been able to do this before getting wired for DSL but not anymore. Either the phone service is live for the whole house or it is not.

So I am guessing your work here is done and I would have to continue this thread in a different forum, Correct???

To prepare to support my theory that the Plasma TV is the source of the problem what do you think I should do? I was thinking to have two different line quality tests ready. One with the Plasma turned off and the next with it turned on.

Or maybe there is something better to do? Whatcha think?