ISP or router?

Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.

Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.

How do I decide between those two?

Ed

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:

> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>
> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>
> How do I decide between those two?
>
> Ed

take the router out of the equation.
Usually it's the ISP and being swamped to death with traffic.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

>Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>
>Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>
>How do I decide between those two?

Temporarily bypass the router?

--

Char Jackson

Char Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>>
>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>>
>> How do I decide between those two?
>
> Temporarily bypass the router?
>
It's a modem-router combo.
I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?

Ed

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:33:52 +0000, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

>Char Jackson wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>>>
>>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>>>
>>> How do I decide between those two?
>>
>> Temporarily bypass the router?
>>
>It's a modem-router combo.
>I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?
>
>Ed
>

I think you might have to contact your ISP for them to provision a
new modem. I would just call them anyway and have them send you some
packets and test your speed from there. Can you run a speed test with
them? I know I can with Comcast and I always get a fast up/download
speed then if I use any other speed test.

Al.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:33:52 +0000, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

>Char Jackson wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>>>
>>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>>>
>>> How do I decide between those two?
>>
>> Temporarily bypass the router?
>>
>It's a modem-router combo.

Yuck. That's why I dislike combo modem/router units.

>I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?

Can you put the unit in bridge mode, which should disable the router?

--

Char Jackson

"richard" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
>
>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>>
>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the
>> router.
>>
>> How do I decide between those two?
>>
>> Ed
>
> take the router out of the equation.
> Usually it's the ISP and being swamped to death with traffic.

Totally disagree. There are so many factors that influence the overall speed
of (presumably) an ADSL connection. The state of your own computer is the
most likely in my experience.

On 1/2/2012 1:33 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Char Jackson wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks
>>> up.
>>>
>>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the
>>> router.
>>>
>>> How do I decide between those two?
>>
>> Temporarily bypass the router?
>>
> It's a modem-router combo.
> I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?
>
> Ed
>
>

Actually, the holidays (kids out of school,gamers with new games, etc.
can easily cause ISP related problems. I'd wait a week, then see if
things have returned to normal.

charlie wrote:
> On 1/2/2012 1:33 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Char Jackson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>>>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks
>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the
>>>> router.
>>>>
>>>> How do I decide between those two?
>>>
>>> Temporarily bypass the router?
>>>
>> It's a modem-router combo.
>> I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>
> Actually, the holidays (kids out of school,gamers with new games, etc.
> can easily cause ISP related problems. I'd wait a week, then see if
> things have returned to normal.
>
>

This is the advice I'm going to follow. I've been connected for about 5
hours at the moment, and I just ran a speed test. Results show best I
get normally. So I downloaded a 12MB file. Same good speed. It's 10-00pm
on a bank holiday last day of holidays.

I've been through the frustrating experience of talking to the brick
wall of my ISP call-centre denizens before. I can do without that again.

Ed

Char Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:33:52 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
> wrote:
>
>> Char Jackson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000, Ed Cryer<>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently (ie. during the long Xmas/New Year holidays) my Net down speed
>>>> has been slowing to a crawl. I reboot the router and it usually picks up.
>>>>
>>>> Now then, my guess is that my ISP is the cause. But it could be the router.
>>>>
>>>> How do I decide between those two?
>>>
>>> Temporarily bypass the router?
>>>
>> It's a modem-router combo.
>
> Yuck. That's why I dislike combo modem/router units.
>
>> I have an old USB broadband modem. Do you think I should try that?
>
> Can you put the unit in bridge mode, which should disable the router?
>

I've looked through all the options in the thing, and there's no sign of
anything that comes close to that. It's a very simple, ISP-provided
router-modem.

Ed