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...
>
>
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