Re: Sporadic Cable Modem Connection Drops Seemingly Caused By High Traffic

well to make sure it isn't the router do a direct connect to your pc.
If you are still getting the drop-offs it could be an overcrowded node or
just a connection problems with the wiring from you modem to the pole.
The last thing of course is the cable modem and the only way to check
that is have a tech come in.
<offshore33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137399182.553517.97950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a 3 Com cable modem connected to a wireless D-Link router. Half
> the connection goes to a wireless USB NIC in another part of the house,
> but the primary connection is via Cat 5 to a computer 6 feet from the
> modem and router. I'm running Windows XP (no service packs) and have
> an Intel NIC on the main computer.
>
> For the past couple of months I've been getting sporadic disconnects
> that appear to be the result of high up/down traffic. Often when
> downloading newsgroup headers, transferring large files via FTP or HTTP
> to web-hosts, or IM trading files I will get disconnected for about a
> minute. The cable modem indicators do not change, however, so I'm not
> losing synch (apparently.) I can not ping outside IPs like my DNS
> servers during this period, but usually after 2 or 3 consecutive pings
> I will re-establish connection (that's where I get the ~1 minute time
> frame.) This also can affect online gameplay if I have been playing
> for long periods of time.
>
> I'm on Comcast Cable in the Orange County, California area so it could
> be discrete bandwidth capping, but I don't know.
>
> Any tips on how to isolate a potential cause?
>


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