[GRLUG] Newbie Network Quality Question

[Joshua Burns]

Man, this sounds like a nightmare. If you do find something I'd be very
interested in hearing about it-- Might test my internet connectivity using
the same method. Also laggy / randomly timing out. I live in Standale and
have Comcast, you around that same area with the same service by any chance?



On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>wrote:

> How can I diagnose internet quality Issues?  Currently I am having
> very weird issues with my internet.  Speed tests show acceptable ping and
> full download and upload speed, but connecting to a long running(
> relatively) service like ssh into my server at home, updating gems, playing
> an online game, gmail spell-check, time out, most of the time.
>
> I can e-mail, even emailing 500kb files, no problem.  Googling works a
> treat, but some sites time out as well.
>
> ssh is spotty if it doesn't time out.  Netstat is still pumping out lines
> every 5-10 minutes without timing out.
>
> Any ideas on what is up?  I am on wireless, I could connect the cat5 and
> see if this helps, in fact I'll do that but I'd like to hear some more
> thoughts.
>
> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
>
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