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FirebirdTN
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momentary internet issues-help.

This is going to be long, but I want to give as much info as possible:

I'm experiencing momentary outages. Started around Christmas, lasted a couple weeks, then seemed to clear up, but now its back.

Interruptions only last 30-60 seconds, and then recovers on its own (no need to reboot anything). I have usually noticed it happen once a day, sometimes twice.

Tonight it was particularly bad. The symptoms: When I try and check my email (via thunderbird) I get "connecting" and then sometimes eventually "server can't be found". When loading a web page I get "connecting...." and then sometimes eventually "can't open the search page". I wait a little bid, refresh and it works.

Now this is where it gets strange...I have some tracing/route tracking software, but have been pretty unsuccessful with it, as by the time I get it loaded and set up, the problem is gone.

I finally wrote a batch file to ping my modem (192.168.1.100), which is obviously on the wan side of my router, then ping my ISP gateway (first hop).

So tonight we were watching a movie via netflix. The movie was ending, and running the end credits. I went to go check my email, and noticed I got the outage again. I quickly ran my batch file, and I COULD ping my modem, but could NOT ping the ISP gateway. Oddly enough though, the netflix stream was never interrupted. About 20 seconds later, my email came back, web surfing started working, and the gateway started responding to pings again.

Anyone have any ideas?

Other odd behavior I have noted, it always seems to be on connection initiation. I have never seen a stream (Netflix, youtube) get interrupted at all. Its always when trying to START netflix (I will get service unavailable), start youtube, or start a web or email session.

One last tidbid that may or may not help. Earlier today I ran a program called "Shaper probe". It said something along the lines of it gave up on the upload shaper test due to too many network errors. I ran it again later, and it said no shaper detected on the upload path.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated. This is not something that is going to get fixed with a called to level 1 tech support.

Thanks,

-Alan

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said by FirebirdTN:

This is going to be long, but I want to give as much info as possible:
...
ANY help would be greatly appreciated. This is not something that is going to get fixed with a called to level 1 tech support.

And it is not going to get fixed by anyone reading your post here either unless you can provide some more explicit information.

»Comcast High Speed Internet FAQ »How To Get Help!
FirebirdTN
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Okay. Here goes:

First off, we are a HEAVY internet usage family.

1) Brighton, TN

2) see above

3) intermittent. No specific time of day.

4) Arris TM722G

5) Arris EMTA-->ZyXel USG50-->ZyXel GS1100-24 Gigabit switch. House is completely gigabit wired. Network devices include my primary PC which is an hp Elitebook 8560p running WinXP docked to a gigabit wired connection, a couple old self built AthlonXP systems with Linksys Gigabit NICs, 4 bluray players, Xbox and a Wii. I also have an old Linksys WRT54GL used as an access point only for phones and tablets. Outage affects all devices wired and wireless.

6) AVG antivirus installed. No software firewalls.

Other info:

I'm a blast subscriber. Comcast also carries my home phone service, which is rarely used. Speed test results are always good. 35Mbps down/ 6Mbps up. I used Firefox exclusively.

Modem always seems to look good. All indicators green but I have constant activity on the link L.E.D. (have since the day comcast was installed).

Modem downstream signal levels are all about -.5dbmv in power, and 37 dB SNR. Correcteds column indicates some errors, but nothing to write home about (about 1000 per channel). Uncorrected contains 0 errors for every downstream channel. Upstream power levels are 42.75 and 42.25 dbmv. Logs do not reveal any errors, except once in a while I get "SIP DNS Query Failure" and the next entry is "SIP DNS Query Failure- Cleared".

I have no splitters. Only one "barrel" connection. House was new and this was the first time cable had been installed, so the drop to the house was new, and I ran one new cable to get the connection in my equipment closet. I use Belden cable (I work in radio/tv as an engineer). The cable is in two sections. The new section I laid was a solid copper center RG6. I also reused one section of cable left over from when I had satellite which is a cheaper copper clad steel center RG6.

I have pingplotter, vtrace, and visualroute, but by the time I get them loaded, the problem is usually cleared, so I can't get useful info from them. Although once I believe visual route reported it could not reach the gateway, whos IP is 73.4.1.1.

-Alan

PS Just to reiterate a point in my initial post that *may* be relevant: I wrote a that batch file that I could quickly access to ping my modem, then ping the gateway, and then loop. I caught the outage last night, ran my batch, and the modem responded, the gateway timed out. Once web and email started working again, the gateway also started responding to pings again. The very strange part is we had a netflix movie trailing out, and it was never interrupted.

graysonf
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Everyone has "constant activity on the link L.E.D" even if the connection is not in use.

You could run a (continuous) ping -t to your gateway IP via a minimized command box. If you are there when connectivity drops, bring up the command box and see if packets are being dropped.

I don't know if Comcast would object to a continuous ping, even if they noticed.
FirebirdTN
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I have done something similar:

My router is actually a dual-wan device, but I only have one internet connection. There for a while I did turn on "connectivity check" and extended logging in the router. I set the connectivity check to ping the gateway every 10 or 15 seconds IIRC.

I would have several entries per day where the connectivity check failed, and the router declared WAN1 connection dead. 10 seconds later in the log were entries where the WAN connection was declared active again. After the problem seemed to clear for a while I turned it back off.

-Alan

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Your modem/line stats seem to be good, and as intermittent as your problem is, it is going to be very difficult to find the source of the problem (as I am sure you know).

Do you own the Arris TM722G, or do you rent it from Comcast? If it is a rental modem, the place to start troubleshooting is to swap the modem. Even if you do own the modem, it might be worthwhile to temporarily rent one from Comcast to see if that fixes the problem; because it is unlikely that Comcast is even going to start looking at the problem until the modem is replaced.
FirebirdTN
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I own it. I am a relatively new subscriber. Was an 8 year DSL customer until I found out Comcast was available in my area. I am extremely pleased with the speed, just wish I could nail this issue down.

I'll check into the possibility of a swap. It was purchased at Best Buy (authorized Comcast retail).

-Alan
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Just for s&g's I pulled my USG50, and reconfigured my linksys for router duties, just to eliminate my equipment as a source of the issues. Shortly after putting the WRT54GL in, my wife was complaining about internet on her ipad. I was luckily logging at the time. My log entries coincide with her outage:

-snip-
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=254
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=254
Reply from 73.4.1.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=254
-snip-

-Alan
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Well, tech came out yesterday and didn't find a thing. I knew he wouldn't. He also ran packet loss tests, and everything was looking good.

I showed him several days worth of logs (pings only) where I had the outage. For about a week prior to the visit I would start the logging after getting home from work and let it run overnight. I had outages, Monday, Thursday, Friday, and I did some logging on Sat before the tech got there, and had an outage there as well. Tuesday and Wednesday were flawless...no outages at all. He suggested doing tracert logs instead, and when the issue happens to take a close look at modem stats.

The tech I spoke too on the phone when setting up yesterdays appointment wanted a tech out first before swapping the modem out. Also, the tech on the phone is not seeing the drops on their end. Its almost like the modem stays synced, but for some odd reason, a device somewhere in the chain just decids to quit passing data for brief periods of time.

-Alan

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What if you hook one machine (Not the one you are testing from) up directly to the router, what happens?
FirebirdTN
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said by beachintech:

What if you hook one machine (Not the one you are testing from) up directly to the router, what happens?

Honestly, have not tried that. I did forget to mention that was one thing the tech did want me to try, and is the next step. But I did try two separate routers just to make sure I didn't have a flaky one, and they both did behave the same.

Anyway, I changed my batch files up, and the next week or so will be more logging with and without the router in place.

-Alan

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Doesn't matter, you could have two bad routers. How do I know? Because I've done it to myself. Try a single computer, that's NOT the one you are seeing issues from. For all you know at this point it could be a bad NIC in that box.

Your ping batch file doesn't tell you a whole lot. There are about 1000 reasons a ping ICMP packet may not make it through or be responded to, 995 of which would result in your service operating just fine. What you need to do, is look at your modem stats when you see an issue and note any signal changes or corresponding modem log entries.
FirebirdTN
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While I really do appreciate the attempt to help and advice, the chances are pretty slim for 2 bad routers and one bad nic all simultaneously. Besides, when the outage occurs, it happens simultaneously to all computers/devices. Bluray players unable to connect to services, ipads not able to reach wepages/links, my laptop (docked on a wired gigabit connection) sitting at "connecting" to either a web site or my email server, etc. Also, 1 of the routers worked perfectly with my old DSL connection, NEVER requiring a reboot, although I probably did end up rebooting it every six months or so for one odd reason or another. The other router was purchased after the switch to cable.

I'm still going to go thru the motions, and do as you and the tech suggest.

I understand that my ping batch files doesn't tell me alot....but at the same time they do. I run batch files on one computer, and have issue on all. I look at my logs, and low and behold, ping timesouts match precisely with the outage. I doubt its coincidental. Also, what I didn't post is I simultaneously log replies from the cable modem (on the wan side of my router of course); modem NEVER times out, even when outages occur, but obviously, my first hop does time out at precisely the same time we experience the connectivity drop.

As me and the tech were chatting, we both agree packet loss is normal. It happens. I get that. On a 12 hour log I still might see a stray "request timed out" here and there, but 10 in a row that coincides with my outage again just can't be coincidence. It reminds me of something he said to me....I think it was 3% packet loss is acceptable. Okay, sounds perfectly okay to me, but during a 24 period, if that 3% loss is all right together, thats a problem.

I realize the nature of this problem is such that its going to take some time and patience to figure out what is causing it. The main reason I posted here was to prevent "reinvention" of the wheel if someone has been down this road before.

-Alan

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You have no idea if the router(s) are bad or not - you are running the test from the same computer, that could have a bad nic, which would make everything look bad down the line That was why I suggested a different machine, directly connected to the modem.

I am not saying that it's for sure your equipment, but from what you have posted, nothing you have shown indicates a problem outside of your network yet. You NEED to post the modem stats and log while you are seeing your "outage". That will tell us what is going on.
FirebirdTN
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Modem stats are above. Signal levels look darn near perfect. Also, by the time I realize I have an issue, its almost too late to get to the modem to look at the stats.

As far as modem log, it doesn't reveal any issues. Also Comcast is not seeing the drop. I do not believe it is losing sync, just again something in the chain just stops passing data for brief periods of time.

I did not have any issues at all Mon-Wed, and my "ping" logs (and now tracert logs as well per tech request) show zero issue and zero lost packets.

Thursday I had an outage, and again my logs reflect it, as the ping log looks exactly like above. Also, tracert shows same thing....perfect trace response until the outage.

This is all again thru router. Next step...pc directly to modem and repeat.

-Alan
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Grab a copy of PingPlotter Standard and let it run until you have the issue. You can open a second copy and and have it pinging the modem while you are pinging a location on the internet in a different copy.

»www.pingplotter.com/

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You should already be at the PC direct to the modem stage, and NOT the computer you are using for monitoring now. Ping doesn't help at all, because you have no idea what is causing the loss or where. Ping Plotter will help, but if there is no corresponding modem issues, it's moving towards not being a comcast issue. If it was a headend issue, this would have already set off alarms that would have been addresses as a lot of people would be experiencing it.

But, a Ping Plotter log will help narrow the scope a bit.
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Beachintech,

I do apologize, maybe I'm not relaying my test results satisfactorily.

When I say I'm running a "ping" test, I am not just running a single test. I have two separate pings going simultaneously. One that pings my modem. The other that pings my first hop.

To date, I have not seen a single lost ICMP request to my modem, even during outages. Although that doesn't necessarily prove anything, it would seem to indicate communication between my LAN and at least the modem ethernet interface is rock solid.

ICMP test results to my first hop looks almost perfect as well...UNTIL an outage. So even during an "outage" ICMP requests still make it thru my router to the modem and modem responses always make it back, but ICMP requests do not make it to the first hop when the problem arises.

As to the possibility of a questionable NIC, again if the NIC was intermittent, then I should be seeing time outs to ICMP packets to both my modem and my first internet hop. Again, modem results show not a single lost packet.

Also, as to using a different PC than one I am experiencing the issues on...I am NOT solely using my main PC when the outage is experienced, nor am I looking at the logs solely as an indicator of an outage. Quite on the contrary. What I in fact do is get home from work, start the logging, then go do something else. As soon as someone in the house yells "Dad the internet isn't working again" (whether they are on an ipad, Xbox, bluray player, their own PC, etc) I then quickly run back to my logging computer and pull up the logs to see if the "timeouts" coincide with the outage. In EVERY single case, they do. Also, I am not just going by family member's words for these outages. I have experienced them first hand myself as well.

The reason I had not removed the router yet, is I want to arm myself with logs (again Tracert logs are per comcast tech request) both with and without the router.

-Alan
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-Deleted Rant-

Going to try and rent another emta today. Guess that is the downside of owning your equipment-no easy exchange.

-Alan
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Well, picked up what looks like an old beat up RCA. Looks like a DOCSIS 2 modem. Lost 10 Megs on the download speed, and upload speed is cut in half. I don't care, so long as its stable.

The things has seen better days though. Beat up pretty good.

I didn't realize by the time I got it home and really looked at it, it didn't even have a backup battery in it. Good thing my equipment closet is on a UPS.

Fingers crossed.

-Alan

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no hsi only modem has a battery backup.
FirebirdTN
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Its an eMTA. I need it as comcast also carries my home phone service.

It has a removable cover and place for battery....just no battery inside!

-Alan
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Feel like I'm talking to myself here, but in case anyone is following my thread...

Its only been a couple hours, but so far no dropouts.

I have noticed something quite odd though...In my screenshots of "pingplotter" on the previous page, you can see just before the 100% packet loss, the pings start to shoot up kind of high...

Well, I happen to notice it coincides with my wife's iPad usage.

With the temporary rented modem I got, I told her to "break the internet", and I notice when she is on it, the pings shoot up to over 500ms, BUT...I do not get any dropouts.

Could just be my imagination, but it almost seems like the iPad is the one thing I can rely on to kill my connection temporarily. However, if you look at the multiping screenshot on the previous page, you can see my router handles it without breaking a sweat. Its almost like the ipad overwhelms the modem. Odd.

-Alan

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The only thing it would be overwhelming, is your router. It's either broken or your router sucks. The modem is just a bridge.
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Beachintech: The router is actually a business class firewall. And if you look at the screenshots on the preceding page you will see the high pings are *past* the router.

Matter of fact, this is my router:

»www.newegg.com/Product/P ··· 33181137

As far as "it sucks", there are plenty of positive reviews that would seem to contradict your assessment. As far as "its broken", I have tried my old standby "linksys", and it behaved the same. I also tried an IDENTICAL USG50 with the same results as well. Three routers, all behave the same...broken? I think that is a big assumption on your part.

I do appreciate the attempt to help, I really do. But based on the information I have provided, I truly believe you are coming to the wrong conclusions. Its NOT MY ROUTER. You might have missed my statement on the preceding page where I mentioned I work in Radio/TV as an engineer. More specifically, not only do I take care of the audio/video gear, but I also am the "IT department" (yes, we are terribly understaffed!). I won't bore you with credentials, as I don't have any. I'm not certified in any area with paper backing. I am self-taught. I do NOT claim to be an expert, but do understand, I have setup countless DSLs, Fiber, T1s, long haul microwave wireless networks (20+miles), Audio-over-IP codecs, etc, etc, etc.

The one area I do lack in experience is cable. I think we have one cable internet connection down in Mississippi.

Just because I am relatively new with a low post count, and live in Tennessee, please don't think I am completely clueless. However, due to my lack of experience with cable internet, that is precisely why I reached out to this forum for a helping hand. That and to see if anyone could say "oh yeah, ive see that before, you need to do x".

Of course, it isn't without irony that of all the networks I have setup and maintained across the country, it is MY PERSONAL one that has to be the unreliable one.

-Alan

-Edit- Why the hell not...here is my setup in my closet, taken on my crappy camera phone.

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no two cable problems are ever the same.

its still time hook up direct with two seperate machines to your modem, to rule out wires, nics, routers, everything.

thats the only way to eliminate it all.
FirebirdTN
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said by gar187er:

no two cable problems are ever the same.

its still time hook up direct with two seperate machines to your modem, to rule out wires, nics, routers, everything.

thats the only way to eliminate it all.

Boy, you got that right about no two problems the same. I swear I only get the difficult ones.

In all honesty, I did hook one PC directly up to the modem, only for about 2 half days, and experienced no issues.

Normally, I would definately say that is a valid test to rule out equipment on my end; however in my particular case, I do not think that is sufficient to come to a definative conclusion. I am sure most people will disagree with me, but by hooking one PC direct to the modem, it allows for 2 possibilities:

1) If no problems are experienced, it would mean I have an issue with my equipment somewhere.

2) If no problems are experienced, it could also mean that I just can't simulate our internet usage with a single PC, and therefore can't really come to any real conclusion.

Its always possible, however rare, that my modem is crapping out during high demand in such a way as to not lose sync, but just stop passing data for brief periods of time. Rare indeed, but that really is starting to look to be the case.

As far as trying different equipment, I only have two model routers to choose from. I do have 5 wrt54gls and 2 usg50s available to me. It could be some weird incompatibility, but I really doubt it.

I have already tried 3 different routers, all with the same results.

As some users have suggested, I think ping plotter/multiping tells the REAL story of what is happening.

So far, no issues at all with the new modem. I'll give it two weeks, and if I am still problem free, I will then see about getting mine repaired/replaced.

-Alan
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I have this same issue.

Pingtest.com gives me an A
Speedtest.net gives me an A+
Shaperprode never shows issues

But I randomly will experience my internet quit working for 10-20 seconds it appears to be random.

I also have an iPad 2 on the network what version is your iPad? I've almost narrowed it down to that device it seems to do it both routers I've had.
FirebirdTN
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said by russgold:

I have this same issue.

Pingtest.com gives me an A
Speedtest.net gives me an A+
Shaperprode never shows issues

But I randomly will experience my internet quit working for 10-20 seconds it appears to be random.

I also have an iPad 2 on the network what version is your iPad? I've almost narrowed it down to that device it seems to do it both routers I've had.

Ours is an iPad3. Your issue could be similar to mine, or completely different. Its hard to say. But the single most helpful thing I found to troubleshoot this issue was Pingplotter and Multiping as suggested earlier in the thread. Well worth the $44 I think it was that I paid for them together.

-Alan
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I've had similar issues for a while (though I don't own an ianything), and happened to run a bunch of pings and a tracert during a sustained episode tonight. Thought it might help. If you just want the results, skip ahead.

My info:
1) I'm in Independence, MO.
2) I have intermittent connection issues, where the internet will all but drop for several seconds to around a minute, then go back to normal.
3) It happens at any time, there has been no pattern that I could find.
4) I have been through 4 modems and three routers to find a setup that my work phone will function properly on, but have never resolved the intermittent signal issues. My current modem is a Motorola SB6141, the firmware it lists is SB_KOMODO-1.0.6.8-SCM01-NOSH.
5) I have a Belkin N600 DB router. My computer on which I test, work-supplied VPN phone, and a switch the rest of the house uses are all plugged into the router, which is plugged into the modem.
6) I run AVG free 2013, build 2899 - no other antivirus or firewall.
-I'm on the highest speed Comcast will provide, which is simply labelled as "Internet Service" for $64.95, with a $10 addition tacked on for "Blast! Internet service" that supposedly is giving me a speed boost.
-Speeds normally test at 35/6ish, one I just ran is »stage.results.speedtest. ··· 9602.png. On rare occasion I've caught it in the middle of a fit where the speedtest showed an effect, such as this: »stage.results.speedtest. ··· 6932.png
-I run Chrome.
-The indicator lights on my equipment are normal throughout. I have: Power, upstream, downstream, web (all solid) and connection activity (always blinks orange)
-My current default gateways are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I've also used the default Comcast supplies (though I can't remember it offhand, 70 something each part) and an alternate they provided, 4.4.4.4 & 4.4.2.2.

It sort of freaked out when I was copying everything from the command prompt, but here are the results (that didn't get pushed out of the log) of a dozen pings and a tracert I ran tonight:

C:\Users\Jen>ping 209.244.0.4

Pinging 209.244.0.4 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.244.0.4: bytes=32 time=1167ms TTL=53
Ping statistics for 209.244.0.4:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1167ms, Maximum = 1167ms, Average = 1167ms

C:\Users\Jen>ping 208.67.222.222
Pinging 208.67.222.222 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=936ms TTL=52
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.67.222.222:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 936ms, Average = 495ms

C:\Users\Jen>ping www.comcast.net
Pinging a1526.dscg.akamai.net [208.47.254.73] with 32 bytes of data
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.47.254.73: bytes=32 time=2863ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.47.254.73: bytes=32 time=2098ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 208.47.254.73:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2098ms, Maximum = 2863ms, Average = 2480ms

C:\Users\Jen>tracert 8.8.8.8

Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 * 425 ms * 69.242.128.1
3 700 ms * 2477 ms te-9-2-ur02.independence.mo.indepen.comcast.net[68.87.234.229]
4 * * 1239 ms te-8-4-ur01.independence.mo.indepen.comcast.net[68.87.234.17]
5 * 9 ms * te-4-3-ar01.independence.mo.indepen.comcast.net[68.87.234.9]
6 * * 23 ms te-5-2-0-12-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.92.1]
7 1040 ms * 30 ms pos-1-3-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.158]
8 * 3281 ms * as15169-4.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [66.208.233.142]
9 * 20 ms 20 ms 209.85.254.130
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 42 ms 40 ms * 72.14.232.70
12 48 ms * 430 ms 72.14.238.16
13 * * 45 ms 72.14.232.21
14 * 41 ms 43 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

The pings pretty much all looked the same - it's the trace that holds what looks to be interesting info, since it appears that everything goes to hell as soon as it leaves the home network. Hope this helps.