I don't think this is a cable problem necessarily... does he have this problem connected to other networks besides his home network? Sounds more like a driver issue...
The other question is if this is on wifi or wired... On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is not a direction Linux question. I have a friend (on window$) > who is having issues with cox. He swears he is intermittently getting > 30-60sec hang ups with his connection to the internet after which > there is a varying level of bandwidth. Cox said their seemed to be a > problem and told him to get a new modem. This provided no change. > Kind of pisses me off that they didn't just bring a test modem. This > has been going on for 6 months. > > I was wondering, does anyone have a tool that we could use to monitor > his connection continuously? Maybe something like neubot > (http://www.neubot.org) but more to the point. I feel at this point > he needs to prove the problem to Cox. > > All suggestions are welcome, sorry for being off topic, and thanks in > advance. > > Chris... > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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