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no router its direct connect. yea it only happens after i try to stream so i thought they problem was linked to that. i called the tech support and they did a line test which showed some problems. they didn't say what, only that a tech would have to come and fix it.

i've attached a tracert.

also, here is our the results of my most recent speed test before trying to stream.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 5208 Kbps about 5.2 Mbps (tested with 6152 kB)

Download Speed is:: 636 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)

Test Time:: 2010-10-04 18:07:43 GMT

Bottom Line:: 91X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.61 sec

Tested from a 6152 kB file and took 9.677 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Running at 151% of hosts average (Swbell.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/7Q02RK4FA

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 [!]

and after trying to stream.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 453 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 55 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)

Test Time:: 2010-10-04 18:17:20 GMT

Bottom Line:: 8X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 18.62 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 55.369 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Running at 13% of hosts average (Swbell.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/4FT3NZLQJ

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 [!]

In the last week or so my internet has been running weird. I am using att dsl, elite package i think. whichever is there fastest. anyways i usually test my speeds here and they're consistently around 5.0Mbps down. however recently whenever i try to stream video my speeds drop drastically. normally my computer buffers and plays videos pretty much instantly. but when i try to stream videos it doesn't work, it goes to super slow speeds. although whenever i'm just browin the web it runs normally. it takes forever to load and when i exit the video and try to run a speed test, my speed test is also very poor. i'm not sure what the deal is. any ideas guys?

what i've tried:

1. power cycling modem.

2. pressin reset button on modem.

3. ran bitdefender antivirus to be sure i'm clean

4. used crap cleaner to clear all the crap out

well the connection has been working well for the past 2 days straight, new world record. i haven't changed anything so we will see but as of right now its fine. thanks.

the modem is new.

no wireless phones, no neighbores. i can't think of anything that is transmitting close to this modem. moreover i think that problem would have been immediate from the time of installation, unlike the actual situation in which the connection was perfect for a month and only now is acting up even though nothing has changed. att said my connection/signal strength is very strong so i don't think the phone line would be an issue. its just bizarre. they said they could send a tech out but i'm not sure about that.

yes, when i talked to the service rep he said the modem had to be two feet away from all electronics. i have since moved the modem and take the filter off this dsl line as there is no phone like on this line. but still the problem persists. that is interesting information though.

took the test. here's some of the information.

WEB100 Enabled Statistics:

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 512.0kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [s2C]) . . . . . . 4.91Mb/s

------  Client System Details  ------

OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1

Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.6.0_13

------  Web100 Detailed Analysis  ------

Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.

Link set to Full Duplex mode

No network congestion discovered.

Good network cable(s) found

Normal duplex operation found.

Web100 reports the Round trip time = 77.12 msec; the Packet size = 1408 Bytes; and

There were 5 packets retransmitted, 162 duplicate acks received, and 164 SACK blocks received

The connection was idle 0 seconds (0%) of the time

S2C throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 2.27%

This connection is receiver limited 14.46% of the time.

This connection is sender limited 48.20% of the time.

This connection is network limited 37.32% of the time.

Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:

RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON

RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON

RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF

RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF

RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON

Server 'ndt.anl.gov' is probably behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port failed]

Client is probably behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port failed]

Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable

Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address

Server says [XXXXXXXX] but Client says [192.168.1.64]

WEB100 Kernel Variables:

Client: localhost/127.0.0.1

CurMSS: 1408

X_Rcvbuf: 262142

X_Sndbuf: 262142

AckPktsIn: 2308

AckPktsOut: 0

BytesRetrans: 7040

CongAvoid: 0

CongestionOverCount: 0

CongestionSignals: 4

CountRTT: 2141

CurCwnd: 49280

CurRTO: 276

CurRwinRcvd: 65535

CurRwinSent: 5840

CurSsthresh: 35200

DSACKDups: 0

DataBytesIn: 0

DataBytesOut: 6264636

DataPktsIn: 0

DataPktsOut: 4432

DupAcksIn: 162

ECNEnabled: 0

FastRetran: 4

MaxCwnd: 97152

MaxMSS: 1408

MaxRTO: 312

MaxRTT: 120

MaxRwinRcvd: 65535

MaxRwinSent: 5840

MaxSsthresh: 45056

MinMSS: 1408

MinRTO: 228

MinRTT: 28

MinRwinRcvd: 65535

MinRwinSent: 5840

NagleEnabled: 1

OtherReductions: 2

PktsIn: 2308

PktsOut: 4432

PktsRetrans: 5

RcvWinScale: -1

SACKEnabled: 3

SACKsRcvd: 164

SendStall: 0

SlowStart: 0

SampleRTT: 80

SmoothedRTT: 76

SndWinScale: -1

SndLimTimeRwin: 1495849

SndLimTimeCwnd: 3856714

SndLimTimeSender: 4982688

SndLimTransRwin: 289

SndLimTransCwnd: 754

SndLimTransSender: 1034

SndLimBytesRwin: 1539032

SndLimBytesCwnd: 4352940

SndLimBytesSender: 372664

SubsequentTimeouts: 0

SumRTT: 165108

Timeouts: 0

TimestampsEnabled: 0

WinScaleRcvd: -1

WinScaleSent: -1

DupAcksOut: 0

StartTimeUsec: 946210

Duration: 10338818

c2sData: 2

c2sAck: 2

s2cData: 3

s2cAck: 3

half_duplex: 0

link: 0

congestion: 0

bad_cable: 0

mismatch: 0

spd: 4.85

bw: 4.64

loss: 0.000902527

avgrtt: 77.12

waitsec: 0.00

timesec: 10.00

order: 0.0702

rwintime: 0.1447

sendtime: 0.4821

cwndtime: 0.3732

rwin: 0.5000

swin: 2.0000

cwin: 0.7412

rttsec: 0.077117

Sndbuf: 262142

aspd: 0.00000

CWND-Limited: 683.90

minCWNDpeak: 2816

maxCWNDpeak: 97152

CWNDpeaks: 4

The theoretical network limit is 4.64 Mbps

The NDT server has a 127.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 25.93 Mbps

Your PC/Workstation has a 63.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 6.48 Mbps

The network based flow control limits the throughput to 9.61 Mbps

Client Data reports link is 'T1', Client Acks report link is 'T1'

Server Data reports link is 'Ethernet', Server Acks report link is 'Ethernet'

edit out personal info

no router, just the modem. the att service rep. said there have been no outages in my area that would cause my connection problems.

yes i have power cycled and reset the modem many times. what is the node? could you be more specific about that? thanks.

hey guys,

i have the att elite dsl package. i've had it for about 2 months. first month everything was perfect. the past two weeks though i've been losing my connection constantly. every few minutes sometimes. its a real annoyance. i've called att and they say my signal strength is great and they went through a bunch of their so called diagnostic tests with me. everything seems to check out yet i still lose connection. on the modem the power, ethernet, and dsl lights are always good, but the internet light is the one that usual goes off.

any helps would be greatly appreciated.

modem is a motorola, the standard given by att.

just hooked up my dsl about 5 minutes ago. i'm on the elite pack, 3.0-6.0. ran the test a couple of times and am averaging about 4.6 on the download and .65 on the up. pretty satisfied for the price. and from what i've heard it can take a few weeks to get your full speed. plus the phone jack is 15 feet from my computer, don't know if that matters of not. but thus far, it's real nice.

running good again. stopped testing for a while and got my best yet.

Your connection is: 7571 Kbps or 7.6 Mbps

You downloaded at: 924 kB/s

You are running: 132 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 1.11 second(s)

Member Ident:Username:zerocool5468 CompID:6435639495696

Test Time:: 2007/02/03 - 7:40pm

Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

Test ID: TJZWKSN86 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)

Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 45.26 % faster than the average for host (cox.net)

This was tested from a 12160 kB file and took 13.157 seconds to complete

i'm using mozilla. there's only an options option under the tools section. but i ran crap cleaner and cleared out all the saved stuff and installed the correct cable nut settings and restarted. now my scores are all over the place. ranging from 2.8-5.6. but no where near the 7+ i was just getting. this is pretty weird.

no, i haven't done any tweaking. swear to go i was scoring 2.7-2.8 earlier today. call to switch with at&t and run the test again. 7.2-7.4 scores. i'm thinking i might just cancel that at&t order since there's no contract. if these speeds stay the same that is. but i'm pretty siked. the cox i'm paying for is 4.0 speeds. so, this is pretty sweet.

ok, so right after i put in the call to switch from my 4.0 cox internet to at&t 3.0-6.0 internet i run the download speed test. usually i get 2.8 or so. but i got this on the test.

Your connection is: 7345 Kbps or 7.3 Mbps

You downloaded at: 897 kB/s

You are running: 128 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 1.14 second(s)

Member Ident: CompID:6435639495696

Test Time:: 2007/02/03 - 4:31pm

Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

Test ID: ACUQY0WKD (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)

Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 40.92 % faster than the average for host (cox.net)

This was tested from a 12160 kB file and took 13.562 seconds to complete

wtf anyone?

great to here, probably going to order it today. get rid of cox completely. since at&t now does cingular and television and fast dsl, i'm down.

thanks for the help. that's cool you live in conway. how do you located a central office?

they have an elite package. 3.0-6.0

so my Cox cable has been sucking for the past couple of months, well more like a year but whatever. i'm on the 4mg plan and average around 2mg. i lose my connection all the time and have to power on power off my modem to get it going again. it's just a big hassle for what i pay. anyway, i'm thinking of switching to at&t dsl. their elite package which offers 3mg-6mg looks pretty good. however, i had dsl a few years back and never got anywhere close to the advertised speeds. what do you guys think? any input on this would be appreciated, thanks.

btw i live in fayetteville, arkansas. if that means anything as far as finding a main office.

so uhh i used to score around 4.1-4.3 on the download test here. in the past couple of months i'm scoring around 3.0-3.3. i think the problem is that for some reason i can't run my internet through ethernet, it only works through the usb. although, ethernet used to work. could this be drivers, or what. thanks for any help.