- Joined
- Sep 17, 2001
- Location
- Nothingness is Everything.
Approximately 70% of the time my internet is UTTERLY unusable. It happens totally at random and I have no idea why, and I have ruled out all the switches and the ethernet cables in the small home network setup. Randomly I will just get ABSURD packet loss and lag, some days it never comes, and other days it lasts all day and night, making my connection literally USELESS. This has become insanely maddening and I cannot figure it the frig out.
I have attached a pic of me pinging google so you can get an idea of how effing erratic it is when this happens. When the connection is good, its great, constant 20-200ms or so to most servers in the US, when its bad...well, its this:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/elementxero/whatthef.gif
(this is where I tried for an hour to get a stable enough connection to upload a whopping 33kb file)
Then, thanks to the ghetto swear filter that bleeped out my WTF, i had to spend another 20 mins trying to rename the file
That was actually a less-than-maximum-eratic pic. Only one 2300ms
The setup is this:
[NET] ---|> cable modem ---|> Router -----|> Router acting as Hub ----|> 50 ft. ethernet cable verified to be OK ----|> Comp
Any ideas? This is driving me crazy and LITERALLY an AOL dial up connection would be a GIGANTIC improvement.
Needless to say, that makes me depressed.
Horribly, horribly depressed.
I have attached a pic of me pinging google so you can get an idea of how effing erratic it is when this happens. When the connection is good, its great, constant 20-200ms or so to most servers in the US, when its bad...well, its this:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/elementxero/whatthef.gif
(this is where I tried for an hour to get a stable enough connection to upload a whopping 33kb file)
Then, thanks to the ghetto swear filter that bleeped out my WTF, i had to spend another 20 mins trying to rename the file
That was actually a less-than-maximum-eratic pic. Only one 2300ms
The setup is this:
[NET] ---|> cable modem ---|> Router -----|> Router acting as Hub ----|> 50 ft. ethernet cable verified to be OK ----|> Comp
Any ideas? This is driving me crazy and LITERALLY an AOL dial up connection would be a GIGANTIC improvement.
Needless to say, that makes me depressed.
Horribly, horribly depressed.