Broadband stuck at 0.1mbps for over a year, tried ...
Hi there
I've just discovered this forum, and am hoping somebody might have some bright ideas to help. We had a perfectly decent broadband connection until October 2008, when the line suddenly, overnight, dropped to about 125-135kbps download speed and stayed there. Upload speed has generally been about 400-ish kbps. I've done many speedtests over the months, including BT's, and those figures haven't moved. I've called the 'help' centre in India several times, jumped through all their pre-scripted hoops, and have been told there's no problem their end and it must be due to internal wiring. (Our house is only 3 years old, it worked fine at first, so am doubting the wiring cause?). We paid for an engineer to come out, thinking he'd do a thorough check of everything, but all he did was fit an iplate and leave. After that the speed did marginally improve for a couple of days but then dropped again.
Since then I've basically given up, I really cannot muster the strength to spend another couple of hours on the phone to someone in India to be told there's no fault again. But I rebooted the home hub two days ago, and yesterday the download speed went up to 250-ishk, (which made a LOT of difference to functionality!), although bizarrely the upload speed halved to 200-ishk as well (according to speedtest.net).
Had a delightful day yesterday of being able to download an itunes track in less than 10 minutes, and then last night the download speed dropped again to its usual 130k and also the upload speed stayed lower. I noticed on the speedtest I did that when the speed was higher the ip profile had gone up from 136 to 500 - it's now gone down again.
Here's the results of the BT speedtest I did half an hour ago:
Download speedachieved during the test was - 114 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 50-250 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :4192 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 135 Kbps
I know we are pretty far from our exchange so we are never going to be super-zoomy, but we have friends a couple of doors away on BT who get acceptable speeds - why not us? What can I do about it, and if I absolutely MUST call India again are there any pertinent questions I can ask them? Why did our speed improve and then go down again? Why has the upload speed halved?
Many thanks for anyone who can help.
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Hi cathcuk
Welcome and may I say, you must have the patience of Jobe.
OK, first off, it's useful to try and understand your broadband connection, and how it's supposed to work.
It's called rate adaptive, and that means that it sets itself to your line's condition.
Its 2 big enemies are, frequent disconnections, either by the hub dropping its connection, or by too frequent manual resets....and line noise.
When you first had your service, it would have gone through a special time frame whereby your line is configured to run under differing scenarios, with different settings, some to do with error correction, some to do with your line's ability to sustain a connection and hold it.
After that period is over the exchange sets your MSR, maximum stable rate, and that in turn help to set your IP profile which determines the speed you are given.
If everything stays the same on the line, you would have maintained that speed, clearly something happened and chances are, noise was introduced onto the line.
The noise either came from external sources, like bad connections up a pole, in a box, or in a ditch etc...
or was introduced in your home, from things line REIN, electrical interference, the addition of extensions diy or otherwise, sky boxes, electromagnetic impulses, specific types of lighting etc......
Those sources whatever they were introduced noise and the exchange perceived that noise as a threat to the stability of the line, and thus reduced the profile and throughput....
What you have to try and do is to look and see if there;s anything that you can spot that may implicate the line's stability. The fact that your home is relatively new has little baring, noise does not discriminate on phone lines.
As Mike as already stated your line is well capable of good speeds, the difficult bit is getting it on....
Firstly read the help pages on low speed problems, about filters, the benefit of fitting an NTE5A faceplate, or an iplate, segregating cables away from your hub, look closely at extension phone systems, fax machines, anything near to or mounted on...your phone line.
You could try unscrewing the cover of your broadband socket outlet, and plugging straight into the test socket, and see if the speed increases, but it may take a few days, maybe 3-5 to see an improvement.
Read some of the posts regarding noise and speed and you wil see...
Test your phone for noise with a quiet line test as advised, and if its noisy, report a noisy line, chances are it will be the external source that's causing you problems...
It can be fixed, but it takes a little know-how and perseverence...
http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.cfg/php/enduser/cci/bt_adp.php?p_sid=p-51JYVj&cat_lvl1=346&cat_lvl...
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1. Repeated and Constant Internet Issues and Poor TV Quality for over a year.
2. A substandard quality of service, just even compared to my next door neighbors who has Comcast. The service has issues daily. Not a week has gone bye without an issue either small or large.
3. Constant and repeated interrupt of service and an overall low quality of product. Time Outs, High Ping rates into the 100s and 200s, Cable Light Off, Poor Quality of TV picture, fuzzy, Digital Blocking even on non-digital channels with or without box, Occasional CB Radio chatter over interment connection <-(the odd one).
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I purchased this house over a year and a half ago. Note; I did think it was odd that the pervious owner of this house had Comcast TV, but a DSL internet connection (I know now why he had to do that). In a brief conversation with him recently when he was visiting our next door neighbors he told me of how he had the same issues and had to switch to DSL.
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The Issues-
From day one, I have had nothing but repeated and constant issues with my internet service. I don’t even think I had Comcast a week before I had to make my fist service call. See I was used to another Cable service and silly me expected my cable to work. From there it was all downhill. I have had so many service calls its actually outlandish and would be funny if it was someone else. Its like a TV sitcom actually.
Each and every service call goes the same way. Tech comes out, stands around, recognizes the problem and leaves. No fixes mind you, and the reasons are below.
Recent History-
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Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock
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Talking to a new service persona again which is the same with ever tech sent to the house (Never the same one twice). Apparently nothing is on my report about this call I made earlier, or he does not note it.
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The Problem trying to get this fix-
You apparently have no Line Techs.
The Pole near my house is apparently a Forbidden Area that no one must go near. LOL
You cannot get these people to go near it apparently. They only classify the problem and go away never to be seen nor heard from again.
Now honestly I can understand with employee issues seeing this happening from time to time, but not for over a year and with service calls up in the tens and twenties…..
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I think the worst part of all of this is I have become so used to the poor and substandard quality of service. So used to it that I only call or complain when its totally out or is visually not working correctly and can be tested. I don’t call and complain because its not working as Advertised, because in fact it really never did or does.
I also, don’t call a lot of the times because of dealing with the service department. If its working at that moment they cannot define the problems. Not really anyone’s fault as it looks like its working even if the pings are in the 200 range or currently no time outs are accruing. I mean at least its working, and they say Speed is not Guaranteed anyway.
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I don’t know about the rest of you but sometimes while talking to people I forget to ask questions or the question does not come to mind until the conversation is over with. In any case, the Phone Service Tech said that what he did should have been done along time ago.
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1.What happened to my Service Call and why did no one call my by 6:00PM today?
-I waited around for the call actually, and I really would like to get this issue resolved.
2. Why is my TV picture still bad?
3. Although my internet seemed to be working today and only cut out once for a brief period of time why did the supposed fix of the Phone Tech double and even triple my pings, and still occasionally cuts out?
This is usually when I can tell its going to start acting up as the interrupts become more frequent and growing in intensity and length. I always have them anyway I am used to it.
However, on the other hand, I am already seeing time outs and interrupts and should I be paying full price for a lower quality of service compared just to my next door neighbor ?
This is a very hard question for me to ask myself. I like using Cable rather than a Dialup Service, but there is also the whole principle to the matter as well.
*Should I pay full price for a service that is substandard to everyone else’s?
*Should I pay full price for the same connecting I used to get a discount for, because of the poor quality?
*Should I call and complain everyday and turn this into a daily ritual? I cant keep taking time off from work to wait for someone who does nothing except stand around and futz with the computer for 20mintes and recognize the issue.
*Should I have to complain so much and go through the process which is like pulling teeth to get you guys to do something about it?
Maybe this is all my fault, and I am doing something wrong. What do I have to do to get this fixed? I don’t want to have to get DSL, so someone please help me. What am I doing wrong. I cannot keep taking time off from work to have someone come out only to recognize I have an issue and never fix it.
To Whomever at Comcast:
Is it so wrong of me to want, after a year of having repeated service calls with no resolution to the issue to ask, and request, that the cable service provided to me is the same as everyone else’s?
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Well if you haven’t noticed by now I am really tying to get this situation fixed and resolved. Mostly because, it is to the point where I am going to have to stop using Comcast and get DSL, or AOL or something because its more reliable. Which I really don’t want to do in the first place cable is supposed to be reliable and always on and faster.
A little over a year not and I am running out of options though.
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An eventful day-
Just a few minutes ago, got a phone call from the Comcast Cable GUY (2:20pm). He then Says he’s been working on trying to find the problem from 1 O’clock. Apparently, and maybe the case, (it was a brief conversation and he will get back to me later) but maybe some part has gone bad somewhere and he said he was waiting on a phone call from someone else.
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I said; So I should see some improvement today… silence…and a brief pause….. After I find out what the problem is Ill come over and discuss it with you so you know exactly what is going on.
I do have a feeling I am going to be told this is going to take weeks to fix or at least awhile. Apparently a Part is needed maybe. Ill have to wait until the guy shows and gives me a full explanation though.
I called my wife and told her of the event and she is pretty emphatic about returning the TV cable box as the TV picture is better without it and she only really looks at the local or 3-like 70 anyway. She was like “Bad Part?” well its been bad for over a year then! We should get a refund for the whole year then… Sorry Comcast she is on a Refund Kick… I just want it to work.
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The Tech Supervisor Mark, showed up at my door and tried to explain the issues. I felt kind of bad cause I probably know he got Chewed on along with some other people probably. At least they sent someone older and who looked like he had more experience and knew what he was talking about and could actually find the issue.
I tried to be as apologetic as I could, and tried to explain that its just because this has been such a persistent issue over the past year and a half, and I have had way too many service calls for this not to be fix by now. I even went so far as to explain; it’s a new year and we are trying to get this problem finally fixed. I was also quick to mention how nice it was outside and that at least it was a good day to run around outside. I would have felt really bad if it was raining or snowing out, but it was a nice day probably upper 60s and sunny.
We briefly discussed the issues and he said he and some others (I guess) had been working t the Head End fixing some issues… Which actually might have fixed my TV picture, seems better right now currently though. Currently NO digital Blocking on any channels currently, but as I said, it’s a sporadic issue popping up one day and going away the next or the problem lasting weeks and months then nothing for a few days and weeks.
Mark, tried to explain that maybe the problem that I might been having (apparently along with a few others) was that a Temporary Line was connected on the MAIN. Basically 1” Main Line Cable run it to cable like that’s in your house (cant remember but off hand I think its 5, 10 or 15 gauge cable) and back to 1” Main Line Cable. It was all a little technical, I just nodded and said yes, and at least you might have found the issue right?
He didn’t know how long that had been like that, and I said; probably for over three years as the previous owner had issues too, or at least sense I had bought this house about a year and a half.
I went so far as to showed him some print screens of some of the issues I have been having, and I know he noticed all the yellow recites in my computer room. : P Unfortunately, I deleted all my old Print Screen saves when the guy last Monday (ninth) showed up and said he would fix the line, or at least track it down. I only had one from the previous night to show him or something.
In any case, while discussing this Mark, said the guy that came out the other Monday never filled out a work order or something like that. I basically tried to explain that is the kind of thing I have been dealing with for little over a year. Tech after Tech after Tech; as I looked at all the yellow recites on top of my computer desk.
Mark also, basically said, I should have pretty fast cable considering I only have two nodes and then basically it runs back to Comcast, or something like that. However, that Temporary Line is probably causing the issues. No definite date on a fix, but maybe 24-hours or a few days, but the matter had been expedited or something like that. *Cross fingers*
That’s the real issue with this cable, its sporadic, and comes and goes. I’m pretty sure they are going to try to replace that line, but you know what….. I have heard that before actually. I have actually heard that for over a year now. Even the expedited part. : P
Mark tried to thank me for pointing out this issue, and made some comment about how its actually helping them….but………. I can kind of tell he had been getting yelled at or something by someone. It was not obvious, but I could tell.
I felt kind of bad about that, but… That happens when you work for someone, and the people who work for you (below you) don’t do what they are supposed too.
I kind of tried to briefly explain to Mark about the issue again and that usually by the time a Supervisor gets out the issue has cleared up for a time….. Odd how that works by the way. But basically I got the old…well it looks like its working ok now and you should have seen some improvements over the last few days… thingy..
We started talking about that Temporary Line being connected again and I walked Mark to the door and we said our goodbyes and I apologized again for being such a pain in the about this whole matter.
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I called the wife and told here about everything. The first thing she asked is; is it fixed? She is still not happy especially when I tired to explain what the issue was and probably was and that at least maybe they found it.
I have no idea of what kind of onward action maybe on my part in the end if things don’t get better. Its like trying to argue with the old Bell Telephone Company when that was the only phone company in the US and no other phone companies existed.
I hope to one day, be a satisfied Comcast Customer, but to date I have yet to feel that way, at least with the Internet in any case and that’s only because I really don’t watch TV.
I am also, hoping when, and if, some LINE is replaced somewhere that I see some drastic improvement along with apparently a lot of other people in my community and a lot less issues also. I still don’t believe that I should be just setting for; Ok well at least its ON now, or the light has finally stopped flashing.
All a SNAFU?
That’s highly questionable at this point, and I have to be honest with you. This is going on a year and a half of dealing with this. This SNAFU, could be the case, but it seems more like policy, or a standing Comcast Company Directive actually if you want my honest opinion. I don’t know what the Maintenance Budget is for my area, but you might want to consider doubling it, or tripling it.
I really don’t care actually when this is fixed, as long as the issue is fixed. I cannot make a final judgment until it is finally fixed and go on and try to take further action onward from that point.
Thus far I have only been given an explanation. I don’t know if anyone at Comcast realize exactly how many times I have had an explanation given too me though (either on the phone with a service tech or from an actual person “tech” at my house). The list is extensive of the actual explanations I have had over the past year and a half, but my favorite one is; squirrels.
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We are still waiting on phone calls from people who said they would call us back today and check what’s going on. Both of us, (me and the wife) are slowly losing momentum again as this whole issue gets dragged out for weeks and weeks at a time.
She is tired and I’m tired too, and Comcast is warring us down again it looks like. My wife was like; “do I have to call them, I really didn’t have a good day anyway and I’m tired. They were supposed to call us anyway, lets wait.”
I tried to make a phone call (half heartedly, I myself as I’m tired too) as Carla (at my local Comcast office) wanted to know how the service call went, but after repeated attempts and being shuffled off to Billing, and then being put on hold : P ……and its actually getting close to dinner time. Maybe after dinner if I don’t just fall asleep first.
So, in the end its still hang on for a few more days, and or, wait to have the problem fixed. Your guess is as good as mine, people. More Smoke and Mirrors or an actual Fix. Your guess is as good as mine.
As for me, I’m going to bed, I’m worn out. Maybe a new line to replace that temporary one, maybe just saying I might get a new line to replace that temporary one.
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After checking the BTCare Community Forums and discovering the event log in the HH5 I discovered that, when the disconnects occur, an "IN: BLOCK [16]..." message appears in the event log for the Firewall of the hub. At the end of this message I have copied a 12 hour firewall event log from today. Every "IN: BLOCK [16]..." event seems to coincide with an internet disconnect so that amounts to circa 40 disconnects in the past 12 hours.
What are these "IN: BLOCK [16]..." messages and why does my internet connection drop every time one of these messages appears? I checked the IP addresses for some of these "IN: BLOCK [16]..." messages. The first IP address in each message I checked was in China. The second IP address for each event I checked is BT in Boston, UK. My suspicion is that the BT server is logging me out every time one of these "IN: BLOCK [16]" events occurs. Logging back into the server then takes up to two minutes and, in the meantime, I have no internet connection.
BT Broadband support in India say that there is nothing they can do to address these internet dropout issues. They can only deal with line or hub faults. Their only suggestion was to disable the firewall on my HH5 but, given all these potential attacks from Chinese IP addresses, I refused to do this.
BTW, the HH5 IP address ending in 65 is my BTTV box.
I'd be grateful for any help and advice to resolve this issue. Here is the Firewall event log;
20:44:07, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.131]:46973->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
20:35:11, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [119.82.226.82]:50172->[86.182.86.9]:443 on ppp3)
20:05:44, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [37.247.36.123]:12152->[86.182.86.9]:443 on ppp3)
19:27:54, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [115.239.248.2]:6000->[86.182.86.9]:8080 on ppp3)
19:07:56, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [121.88.5.177]:8888->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
19:01:12, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [80.82.78.186]:39434->[86.182.86.9]:80 on ppp3)
18:51:30, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.133]:45824->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
18:41:46, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [183.136.216.3]:9090->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
18:40:30, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [117.21.225.3]:10708->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
18:27:50, 18 May. BLOCKED 1 more packets (because of Remote administration)
18:27:50, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [37.247.49.253]:35420->[86.182.86.9]:80 on ppp3)
18:22:25, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.46 on ppp3)
18:22:22, 18 May. BLOCKED 2 more packets (because of ICMP replay)
18:22:22, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.46 on ppp3)
18:09:52, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [39.115.40.60]:44439->[86.182.86.9]:80 on ppp3)
17:31:58, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [61.240.144.65]:60000->[86.182.86.9]:161 on ppp3)
17:30:18, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [198.20.69.74]:20012->[86.182.86.9]:443 on ppp3)
17:25:05, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [185.35.62.13]:60643->[86.182.86.9]:80 on ppp3)
17:22:10, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [61.160.224.129]:56517->[86.182.86.9]:8080 on ppp3)
17:00:08, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.131]:50338->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
16:49:05, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.36 on ppp3)
16:49:03, 18 May. BLOCKED 3 more packets (because of ICMP replay)
16:49:02, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.36 on ppp3)
16:37:49, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [218.77.79.43]:43469->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
15:54:37, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [71.6.216.62]:443->[86.182.86.9]:443 on ppp3)
15:43:28, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [221.235.189.245]:38235->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
15:31:23, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [183.136.216.4]:9090->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
14:39:50, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.133]:49483->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
14:37:40, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.74 on ppp3)
14:37:36, 18 May. BLOCKED 2 more packets (because of ICMP replay)
14:37:36, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.74 on ppp3)
14:03:46, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [183.136.216.3]:9090->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
14:00:11, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [82.102.180.11]:10469->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
13:57:17, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [82.221.47.5]:48212->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
13:49:16, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.135]:59887->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
13:43:33, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (ICMP type 8 code 0 198.20.99.130->86.182.86.9 on ppp3)
13:08:25, 18 May. IN: ACCEPT [57] Connection closed (Port Forwarding: TCP [192.168.1.65]:7457 <--> [86.182.86.9]:1024 - - - [91.235.132.236]:443 SYN_SENT/SYN_RECV ppp3 NAPT)
13:08:25, 18 May. IN: ACCEPT [54] Connection opened (Port Forwarding: TCP [192.168.1.65]:7457 <--> [86.182.86.9]:1024 - - - [91.235.132.236]:443 SYN_SENT/SYN_RECV ppp3 NAPT)
13:02:30, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [221.235.189.245]:58370->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
12:55:09, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (ICMP type 8 code 0 178.124.19.8->86.182.86.9 on ppp3)
12:07:45, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [104.233.142.242]:6000->[86.182.86.9]:8080 on ppp3)
11:58:49, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.131]:54076->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
11:26:03, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->31.55.184.239 on ppp3)
11:23:14, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.132]:37275->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
11:07:40, 18 May. BLOCKED 3 more packets (because of ICMP replay)
11:07:40, 18 May. OUT: BLOCK [7] ICMP replay (ICMP type 3 code 1 86.182.86.9->216.58.208.46 on ppp3)
10:39:08, 18 May. IN: ACCEPT [57] Connection closed (Port Forwarding: TCP [192.168.1.65]:7457 <--> [86.182.86.9]:1024 - - - [23.62.53.9]:443 SYN_SENT/SYN_RECV ppp3 NAPT)
10:39:08, 18 May. IN: ACCEPT [54] Connection opened (Port Forwarding: TCP [192.168.1.65]:7457 <--> [86.182.86.9]:1024 - - - [23.62.53.9]:443 SYN_SENT/SYN_RECV ppp3 NAPT)
10:17:56, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.132]:54983->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
09:29:53, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [61.240.144.64]:60000->[86.182.86.9]:443 on ppp3)
09:25:48, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [183.136.216.3]:9090->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
09:25:21, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [196.12.153.45]:42739->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
09:25:15, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [43.255.188.130]:36950->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
08:58:58, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [222.186.56.178]:28384->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
08:37:28, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [118.244.130.34]:6000->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
08:17:59, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [222.186.31.208]:6000->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
08:12:22, 18 May. IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [141.212.122.151]:45461->[86.182.86.9]:22 on ppp3)
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139 pings were between 500ms and 999ms
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428 pings were between 50ms and 249ms
680 pings were between 40ms and 49ms
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