I wanted to try a static IP and see if it'd change anything in terms of open ports and what not. Nothing really changed at all so I switched back.
I've also been turning my router on n off when I change settings in it. That's kind of how it seems to like to run. Every time it does so it changes the external IP address just a little bit. Might be why you're seeing different ones.
I've checked my PC for any malicious software with a few different tools to see if anything might be on my computer hogging my upload. Nothing showed up.
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It seems, the more I've looked into all of this over the past month, the worse my internet has become.
DSL has always been a pest to me, and I've never seen DSL of any kind to be a form of reliable and workable internet. I've had nothing but the worst experiences with any form of internet connection relating to using phone lines since the 90s. But right now it is the only option I have for internet. I owe on cable.
All I know is my webpages take more than a few moments to begin changing to other pages, responding and beginning to load. My youtube and streaming videos from any sites take very long to load and I'm running on a 12 Mbps download connection, there should be no issues like this happening when I am not using up all of my bandwidth. But it feels like all of my bandwidth often is always used up. Which is a bad feeling when I first turn on my PC, give it time to load up a bit, then try to access the internet with nothing going on and webpages are loading and responding slowly as if I am downloading a massive file and tying up every inch of my bandwidth.
When I first moved in here last July and ordered this service I was able to run online games WHILE running gaming video streams at 720p quality and saw no negative effect what so ever.
I was able to download files on uTorrent at which I would cap it at about 900 KB/s so I could still surf the internet and play video games and it did so perfectly fine.
Now with the same internet I'm having trouble even watching an online stream in 480p without consistent freezing. I've tried different web browsers to see if it were them and to no avail. I'm unable to play video games unless I am absolutely running nothing at all. No web browsers, no downloads, no streamers, nothing. Even then it seems a bit laggy. Yet I used to be able to have a dozen browser pages up, video streams, Skype chats, Facebook, etc and everything ran smoothly even when playing games. Also can't have uTorrent downloading at more than 400 KB/s now without a notice in latency performance.
As of the past couple months I've stopped doing all the above all at once. I can't do it even if I want to. Too laggy now. I'll run a couple things at a time and be dealing with latency problems. Also keep in mind I don't have uTorrent up at all times always downloading, it is up and running to download things at random times usually when I'm not using the internet. Such as when I'm watching movies, eating, etc.
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Time of day makes absolutely no difference by the way. Not here, and not for me anyway. Traffic wise of if other people are more actively using the internet or not during the day you know.
In all honesty I've always seen that as more of a myth. While logically it makes sense, and I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I've never ever seen a difference in DSL performance during day or night. During prime hours or most inactive hours. I've always had the same latency performance at all hours on any DSL I've ever had if I had any issues. If I'm getting some form of delay issue at 5pm? I'm getting the same issue at 2am and 9am later on the next day.
Maybe I have a defective modem?
From my experience any modem/router from the ISP has always been a bad one. Always buggy, always defective, always having problems.
Whether it starts right out the box, or maybe 3 months down the line. Or maybe even half a year.
I've had this modem/router since July 2012.
But I'm not sure if they would send me a replacement modem without charging me. Unless they saw that my modem was indeed defective. But in faulty scenarios like this one the DSL company is always clueless about what's wrong and how to fix it. Usually the modem looks "just fine", on their end. Same with the line. So they'll excuse it. I mean after all I can go to speedtest.net and get low pings on my download and upload. Showing that I'm also around my accurate bandwidth too. So they would see no problems. They can't seem to know how to look past the cover of things.
All I know is I'm getting a bit fed up with DSL technology. There's always something wrong with it at some point in time.
I just want this fixed.
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My IP Results from CMD:quote:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\BlankB>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : BlankB
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : (Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:42:43 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:42:43 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : xxxxxxx
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:428::1
2001:428::2
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes