Help I Have Packet Loss
Big_Chief_Brown_Bottom
Join Date: 2003-01-22 Member: 12584Members
Join Date: 2003-01-22 Member: 12584Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">need expert advice</div> since last week i've been getting very consistent packet loss couple of times every minute. This would be 100% packet loss for about a second, my cable modem recieves no bytes, during which i will freeze in battle then die. I know its not a problem with my router because i have unhooked it and have gotten the same problem. I also know its not my puter lag because its an abrupt interruption and no slowdown beforehand. now that only leaves 3 possibilities:
1) NIC problem
2) cable modem problem
3) crappy ISP service
I'm sorta leaning toward 3 as the reason for the packet losses, but i'm not too familiar with NIC and modem problems and I just wanted to ask how i would check (hopefully without puttin in another NIC cause i don't have another) whether its 1) or 2) that's the issue here.
I think most likely its 3) and I'm going to switch to adsl soon anyways. only reason i picked cable is because i used to work for them and i got a free install. never liked them much anyways.
1) NIC problem
2) cable modem problem
3) crappy ISP service
I'm sorta leaning toward 3 as the reason for the packet losses, but i'm not too familiar with NIC and modem problems and I just wanted to ask how i would check (hopefully without puttin in another NIC cause i don't have another) whether its 1) or 2) that's the issue here.
I think most likely its 3) and I'm going to switch to adsl soon anyways. only reason i picked cable is because i used to work for them and i got a free install. never liked them much anyways.
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Is it only to the same server....any server? Look at your Cat5 cable? is it being pinched....or has it been pinched? If you wanted to get really geeky you could test your cat5 cable(your network cable) with a meter that measures packet loss. If the cable is fine....look at which servers...or all servers. IF cable is fine and it is all servers, then it's your ISP's connection. IF it is a particular server, then it could be just your connection to that server.
Is it only to the same server....any server? Look at your Cat5 cable? is it being pinched....or has it been pinched? If you wanted to get really geeky you could test your cat5 cable(your network cable) with a meter that measures packet loss. If the cable is fine....look at which servers...or all servers. IF cable is fine and it is all servers, then it's your ISP's connection. IF it is a particular server, then it could be just your connection to that server. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
no its on ALL servers. and who the hell has a meter that measures packet loss at home? even if the cable is fine it could still be a NIC problem
Yea, i know this, waiting half hour listening to some stupid repeating 10 second long music track :-E
Yea, i know this, waiting half hour listening to some stupid repeating 10 second long music track :-E <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
try 4 hours. i finally got thru tho. it turns out they are having problems throughout the entire network. they say that its affecting all isps in my area. should i believe them or switch to ADSL? (i'm currently cable)
Cable is a shared medium...means if your neighbor is using cable to(TV or Internet) they are taking up some of your "potential" bandwidth. DSL goes through the phone lines...they take out the filters that slow the information down(filters for static-what you may hear while talking on the phone sometimes)....they remove the filters and the speed is faster...than 56k(phoneline speed with filters) and the phoneline goes to the router and into your Nic.
It's only been my experience that DSL companies allow a faster upload speed, but Cable might have an overall faster download speed depending on trafic.