Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-09 Thread Greg
Thank you all for the suggestions. It would be difficult to bypass the entire house network, or at least there would be significant impact. That said, I do intend to try to "shed load" and see if I can alter the problem. The difficulty is that it's fairly intermittent. Perhaps a dozen times

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg writes: > I have a problem and not sure the best approach to isolate and resolve > it. My home network seems to have momentary (1-15 seconds) lapses in > response time or connectivity. The network setup is pretty standard. > Broadband connection, Linksys router running Tomato, a couple

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Greg wrote: >> What's the best approach to isolating or identifying the details of this >> problem?  One obvious solution is to log some pings for a day or two. > >  This is tricky because what you're looking

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:12:50PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Greg wrote: > > What's the best approach to isolating or identifying the details of this > > problem?  One obvious solution is to log some pings for a day or two. > > This is tricky because what y

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I to not claim to be in the same league when it comes to networking as Ben, but I have noticed with some VoIP applications that I use and the people I call that it is often not the problem with "my" network. Some people I call are in far-off places, with really bad dial-up lines and over time the

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Greg
Comcast Cable I use uTorrent (also subject to QoS filters to reduce it's priority) but this problem seems unrelated since I can power off the uTorrent machine and get the same results. I appreciate the "Packet Delay Variation" and "Jitter" comments. Fodder for the search engines. I'll check

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Greg wrote: > The network setup is pretty standard. Broadband connection ... What type of Internet connection and who is the provider? For example, "Comcast cable", "FairPoint DSL", "Verizon FiOS", etc. > It seems to be an outbound problem (I can hear fine al

OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Greg
I've been around this list a long time, although usually in listen only mode and I've seen some pretty interesting discussions. Thank you for some very interesting threads. I have a problem and not sure the best approach to isolate and resolve it. My home network seems to have momentary (1-15