jcarle Posted December 16, 2006 Posted December 16, 2006 @ALL: Actually this discussion about routers and their performance is off-topic and won't help the topic starter in any way.Well, consider it more like "stretching" the topic since the problems he has could be related to his router.
DL. Posted December 17, 2006 Posted December 17, 2006 (edited) @crahak: My router has been under quite heavy load with general web surfing or multiplayer gaming, many P2P progs, torrents and other down-/uploads all at the same time. No VoIP/IRC/VPN though, but still quite a lot...@jcarle: Yeah, it's stretching the topic a bit. Sure his problem might be router related, but that can be easily tested by unplugging it and connecting directly to the cable modem.Edit: Removed "quite" in the above response to jcarle. You're right TAiN I was using the wrong word, it's slightly (and not "quite a bit") OT. Edited December 17, 2006 by DL.
tain Posted December 17, 2006 Posted December 17, 2006 @DL: Slightly OT, but valuable discourse nonetheless. Not like we ran away with the thread and started telling dirty jokes.I've had similar luck as jcarle: wrt*+thibor is good stuff. But I've had other, less awesome consumer routers go to their knees quickly as crahak noted. But I don't run the same traffic as either of them.So....you know any dirty jokes? j/k
cluberti Posted December 17, 2006 Posted December 17, 2006 Has anyone considered that this could be a simple autonegotiation problem between the PC and router/switch port? Forcing the NIC to 100Mb/Full duplex (or whatever the router is supposed to use) resolves a lot of issues like these. When the NIC autonegotiates (approximately once every few seconds to few minutes, btw, depending on the driver), all traffic will cease on the connection until finished. If you know your network's rated speed/duplex (and your NIC and router support said speed/duplex), there's no reason to leave autonegotiation enabled at all - force it.
tain Posted December 18, 2006 Posted December 18, 2006 Good point. Could also be a loose connector or a short/break in his cabling somewhere. Those are a real pain to troubleshoot, but don't tend to be as intermittent as this.
LLXX Posted December 18, 2006 Posted December 18, 2006 I'm quite sure his modem or the modem power supply is at fault.The power connectors tend to be loose. As a result the modem resets itself with only slight vibration.
CoffeeFiend Posted December 18, 2006 Posted December 18, 2006 I'm quite sure his modem or the modem power supply is at fault.The power connectors tend to be loose. As a result the modem resets itself with only slight vibration.That's extremely unlikely. As ppl said before, no cable modem out there resets / reinitializes / is back online within 2 seconds or even anything near that. My surfboard SB5101 takes more like a whole minute.My bet is still on the router.
jcarle Posted December 18, 2006 Posted December 18, 2006 I'm quite sure his modem or the modem power supply is at fault.The power connectors tend to be loose. As a result the modem resets itself with only slight vibration.That's extremely unlikely. As ppl said before, no cable modem out there resets / reinitializes / is back online within 2 seconds or even anything near that. My surfboard SB5101 takes more like a whole minute.My bet is still on the router.More so, no router reboots in that time-frame either. Just the DHCP renewal takes more then that.
LLXX Posted December 18, 2006 Posted December 18, 2006 Or the cable itself could be loose. Error correction/retransmission just prevents it from completely cutting out, and the only thing you notice is a slight delay.
ripken204 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Posted January 4, 2007 lol, who started this back up after a few months? i got my isp to replace the modem and all is well.
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Error correction/retransmission just prevents it from completely cutting out, and the only thing you notice is a slight delay.I agree. Sounds like packet corruption. Is Windows reporting errors in packets?
prx984 Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Even though this is an old post, I'm extremely surprised no one said to hook the modem up to the computer. Either way, glad to hear you got it working.
RJARRRPCGP Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) this has been really annoying lately. i have cable internet, im plugged in through a router connected to the modem thru and ethernet cord. and prolly for 2 sec every minute or so my signal will just completely drop and web pages wont load and downloads will pause, then 2sec later it will be fine again...A majorly similar problem with a person's PC that I saw, which is connected to Comcast, AFAIK:Every some minutes, Windows XP keeps on displaying the "A network cable is unplugged." balloon! Connection interruption is confirmed by using the Ping command. When that occurs, ping packets were lost.Has anyone else had this problem? Edited January 7, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP
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