Myself and several others have been having serious problems with Cox
internet.
Since they changed to 4 hour leases on ip's with dhcp, some of my friends
have lost their connection entirely, while I haven't I have trouble loading
webpages. I have to hit reload many many times before something loads. Some
pages load fine - but most of the time it's slow. I decided to boot into
Linux from Windows so I could analyze the situation. Here is what I found:
Output from ifconfig eth0:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:59:4A:3D
inet addr:68.11.208.100 Bcast:68.11.208.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:357 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2618784 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:553814 (540.8 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800
As you can see, after transmitting 540 kb and receiving 2.4Mb it had 357
collisions. I am not a network expert and don't know what is causing this
as this was not a problem before. I think the collision number should be
much lower huh?
I am wondering how everyone else's connection is and could someone tell me
if the collisions are indeed high or is this normal?
Thanks,
Boyd
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