Slow internet during peak hrs NEPA

For the past few weeks I have been experiencing slow internet downloads and youtube here in northeast PA , especially during peak hours. here is my traceroute and scroll down for transciever stats : btw, my speed is 3mbps/768
news.giganews.com
traceroute to , 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gw1-g-vlan201.dca.giganews.com (216.196.98.4) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 te0-0-0-7.mpd22.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.67.49) 0 ms te0-7-0-9.mpd22.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.62.193) 1 ms te0-0-0-7.mpd22.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.67.49) 0 ms
3 te0-2-0-0.ccr21.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.101) 0 ms 0 ms te0-0-0-4.ccr21.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.105) 0 ms
4 * * *
5 xe-1-0-2-0.NWRK-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.74) 12 ms 12 ms xe-3-1-2-0.NWRK-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.23.206) 10 ms
6 P12-0-0.SCTNPA-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.22.13) 16 ms 15 ms G14-0-0.SCTNPA-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.195) 14 ms
7 P10-0.SCTNPA-HZTNPAHZ-ERXG01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.136.43) 17 ms 19 ms 18 ms
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22 * * * Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)
news-europe.giganews.com
traceroute to, 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 vl201.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.3) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 te7-7.ccr01.ams05.atlas.cogentco.com (149.11.104.9) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 te0-5-0-1.mpd21.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.46) 0 ms te0-5-0-1.mpd22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.54) 0 ms te0-5-0-1.mpd21.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.46) 0 ms
4 te0-1-0-0.mpd22.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.0.198) 87 ms te0-5-0-7.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.50.85) 10 ms te0-3-0-7.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.37.130) 10 ms
5 te0-7-0-9.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.85.221) 76 ms te0-0-0-3.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.37.141) 85 ms te0-7-0-3.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.169) 76 ms
6 te0-0-0-18.mpd22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.29) 82 ms te0-7-0-18.mpd22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.33) 81 ms te0-2-0-1.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.87.62) 85 ms
7 te0-2-0-6.ccr21.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.98) 82 ms te0-1-0-6.ccr21.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.166) 81 ms te0-2-0-6.ccr21.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.98) 82 ms
8 xe-4-1-4-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.123) 87 ms 0.xe-10-3-0.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET (204.255.168.113) 81 ms 82 ms
9 xe-4-1-4-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.123) 81 ms 0.so-5-0-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.46) 79 ms 79 ms
10 P12-0-0.SCTNPA-LCR-02.verizon-gni.net (130.81.22.15) 93 ms 93 ms 0.xe-10-3-0.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET (204.255.168.113) 85 ms
11 P9-0.SCTNPA-HZTNPAHZ-ERXG01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.33.39) 100 ms 98 ms 100 ms
12 * * *
13 * P9-0.SCTNPA-HZTNPAHZ-ERXG01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.33.39) 103 ms *
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17 * * Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)
And here is the transciever stats:
Transceiver Statistics
Transceiver Revision:
7.2.3.0
Vendor ID Code:
4
Line Mode:
G.DMT Mode
Data Path:
Fast
Transceiver Information
Downstream Path
Upstream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)
3360
864
Margin (dB)
23.5
11.0
Line Attenuation (dB)
17.5
9.0
Transmit Power (dBm)
9.6
11.8
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#1 An original or very old style NID with a spark gap and ground wire can even get spiders in it that could cause an issue. Inspect the NID first before thinking of changes or wiring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_interface_device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_point
Running a good quality wire CAT5, no need for CAT6, directly to the NID for the DSL modem jack may help. That is what I had done with mine. Depending on the number of loads or amount of wire in the house could also cause issues. But if the user's signal quality is not being pulled low due to a wiring issues, it would usually indicate a problem elsewhere. Unless there was noise being picked up on the premises wiring. Wire DSL directly to the NID and install a filter there for all other in house wiring may help. There used to be available what was called a NID Filter, and I am sure you can still get them.
Ideal Connection if house wiring is an issue, or very old, and lengthy. Install a filter / splitter at the NID.
Run CAT5 directly to the NID location, and install a dedicated jack for the DSL modem.
Remove all in house wiring from the NID.
Connect piece of CAT5 from the NID to the filter / splitter input
Connect all existing phone lines to the phone side of the filter output.
Connect the new DSL CAT5 directly to the NID before the filter / splitter, or to the DSL side of the filter / splitter, depending on the device purchased.
This will take all the existing premises wiring out of the picture unless there is a short circuit or excessive load somewhere in the house.
At this point all the single filters could be removed because the DSL is filtered at the NID.
http://www.homephonewiring.com/dsl.html
#2 You can test outbound to Giganews. But giganews has/had a test that will check your inbound connection from their servers to you.
I heard from another user that
    Giganews is being watched very closely because of multipart binaries, and pirated material. MP3s and Video Content. 7 years ago you could get 10-20 MP3 albums in a single day, and that was with a 15/5 fios connection. So they started providing an encrypted connection service for an added fee. I have not messed with news groups for a very long time. Now with deep packet inspection, and other enforcement, I would not even think of it. No news I want there. But there may be content that people want? They may even be checking and limiting speed from that domain. Never tested. But let me see. It looks as if reverse trace routes and speed tests are being blocked by Verizon from Giganews to my router.
        Reverse Traceroute
        Tool news.giganews.com
        traceroute to *.*.*.*, 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
        1 gw1-g-vlan201.dca.giganews.com (216.196.98.4) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
        2 te0-0-0-7.mpd22.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.67.49) 0 ms 0 ms te0-7-0-9.mpd22.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.62.193) 0 ms
        3 te0-0-0-4.ccr21.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.105) 0 ms 0 ms te0-2-0-0.ccr21.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.101) 0 ms
        4 uunet.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.138) 28 ms verizon.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.226) 40 ms uunet.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.138) 28 ms
        5 0.ae1.RES-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net (152.63.32.157) 41 ms 41 ms 0.ae2.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (152.63.34.22) 13 ms
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        16 * * Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)
#3 Have the provider run a local loop test to see if any problems are indicated. If there are, then they could run the test with everything in the house disconnected, except the new DSL modem connection. If issues are still indicated, then the DSL provider needs to make connections on the local loop. Another user told me that they had issues when it rained, and it was because construction had left a splice box open on a line somewhere.
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Slow Internet during Peak Times

Hi I am actually a Sky customer but because of living in a rural area everything is done through the BT lines.
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However...
The internet is getting slowed down even though no downloads are occuring during peak times, I am the only one in my house that uses downloads (parents just use facebook), whenever I do download it is for games on steam, but now I just do them at another house because...
1) 10mb internet isn't all that great for downloading large files I would rather not leave my PC on for 2 nights just to download a game
2) I can go to a friends house and use theirs and not be effected by the peak time limit, and download at a very high speed
My step brother uploads videos to youtube, and when he does them, its usually about 12AM before he goes to sleep, and never during the peak times, that is the upmost most stress that happens in terms of our internet traffic.
The internet slows down at exactly 5:15PM to 11:15PM, every single day, and during this time the internet is pretty much unusable, even to browse web pages, watching videos on youtube(in lowest quality 240p) or playing xbox/pc/ps3 is stictly a nono.
This is a quote from a rather basic forum page
"Total time taken to generate the page: 61.17250 seconds"
Even google takes an abnormally long time to load.
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I am just wondering how can I resolve this issue.
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Slow internet during 'peak times' after hurricane in BIllerica, MA

Around 2 PM on tuesday, 10/30/2012, we lost power for about 30-45 minutes. Before then, pretty much all day and night the ms while playing any sort of game was anywhere from 40-80, usually 40-50 sometimes going up to 80 randomly but never notiecable.
After the brief power loss, internet has been around 90ms during the day, and without fail at 7pm until around midnight its anywhere from 140-200ms. In the early hours of hte morning (2 am-ish), it goes back down in the 50 range.
I've checked with the forums of the games that I have been playing and no one else is experiencing this, including friends of mine that play on the same servers etc.
I've restarted the modem, once the night of the power loss, once again today (11/1). Solves nothing nor would it since its a peak time issue. Also, in thinking maybe the power loss screwed some setting, I ran the "optimize connection' tool from my computer. Nothing's changed.
This is something on Verizon's end, as is usually the case whenever its a 'peak time' issue. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this post Sandy, and if any Verizon rep reads this can you give any insight as to whether this is a known issue in small pockets across the northeast due to the power outages. Nothing has changed on my end, nor on the end of the servers of the games I have been trying to play.
Scott L.
Billerica, MA
**edit** Normally this isnt a big issue, but the majority the games I and others in the house use are very heavy person to person games, where the difference between 40ms and 200ms is actually pretty massive. One of the reasons we switched from Comcast to Verizon was because of the tremendously low latency Verizon provides, and after playing with 40ms for 11 months, 140-200ms is painstaking ***edit***

Okay, just got home. Was told ms was around 100 all day, slowly fell to 42 until about 8:00 when it started to climb again, where it currently sits at 90ms. Here are the traceroutes/pathpings. According to the website of the company that makes the game, the server I am playing on is located in Chicago.
Tracing route to 12.129.206.130 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 7 ms 10 ms 8 ms L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-09.verizon-gni.net [96.233.113.1]
3 7 ms 9 ms 8 ms G15-0-7-1356.BSTNMA-LCR-03.verizon-gni.net [130.81.177.4]
4 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms so-7-1-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.168]
5 42 ms 19 ms 19 ms so-9-1-0-0.NY325-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.19.70]
6 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms 0.ae1.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.37]
7 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms 192.205.36.57
8 97 ms 96 ms 91 ms cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.86.6]
9 100 ms 96 ms 96 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.1.2]
10 100 ms 96 ms 99 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.2.53]
11 96 ms 90 ms 98 ms cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.122.31.85]
12 95 ms 94 ms 95 ms cr1.slkut.ip.att.net [12.122.30.25]
13 98 ms 96 ms 101 ms cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.30.30]
14 95 ms 170 ms 150 ms gar29.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.241]
15 95 ms 98 ms 98 ms 12-122-254-238.attens.net [12.122.254.238]
16 94 ms 93 ms 93 ms mdf001c7613r0004-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.250]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
Tracing route to 206.18.148.200 over a maximum of 30 hops
0 Scott-PC.home [192.168.1.3]
1 Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-09.verizon-gni.net {edited for privacy}
3 G15-0-7-1356.BSTNMA-LCR-03.verizon-gni.net [130.81.177.4]
4 so-7-1-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.168]
5 so-9-1-0-0.NY325-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.19.70]
6 0.ae1.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.37]
7 192.205.34.49
8 cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.86.6]
9 cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.1.2]
10 gar3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.213]
11 12.122.251.22
12 63.240.130.214
13 * * *
Computing statistics for 300 seconds...
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Scott-PC.home [192.168.1.3]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 9ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-09.verizon-gni.net {edited for privacy}
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 10ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% G15-0-7-1356.BSTNMA-LCR-03.verizon-gni.net [130.81.177.4]
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 10ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% so-7-1-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.168]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 25ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% so-9-1-0-0.NY325-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.19.70]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 69ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 0.ae1.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.18.37]
0/ 100 = 0% |
7 66ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.205.34.49
100/ 100 =100% |
8 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.86.6]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.1.2]
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% gar3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.213]
0/ 100 = 0% |
11 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 12.122.251.22
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 63.240.130.214
Trace complete.

Slow speed during peak hours for over a year

For over a year now my connection speed has slowed during peak hours, at first it would start around 6pm and drop to 5meg or so untill midnight at which point it would go back up to 8meg all night and morning.
As the year has gone on it has gotten worse and worse to the point now where it starts around 2pm and plummits to 1.5-2meg and remains at that till midnight at which point it goes back to 8meg.
I have been trying to get help with this from @BTCare on twitter for serveral months now and have gotten absolutely no where, every time i get the same old "are you on wireless or wired", "try a different router/microfilter", "try another PC", "run a diagnostic test on our speed tester" etc etc and at the end of it they go silent and then when i try and get some kind of update we are back to square one of being told to fill out my details on the website to open a NEW ticket even though i currently have 5 or 6 open tickets for the same **bleep** issue.
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AR7 DSL Modem Statistics:
[DSL Modem Stats]
US Connection Rate: 448 DS Connection Rate: 8128
DS Line Attenuation: 10 DS Margin: 15
US Line Attenuation: 5 US Margin: 23
US Payload : 5764512 DS Payload: 33282192
US Superframe Cnt : 87110 DS Superframe Cnt: 87110
US Transmit Power : 0 DS Transmit Power: 0
LOS errors: 0 SEF errors: 0
Errored Seconds: 0 Severely Err Secs: 0
Frame mode: 3 Max Frame mode: 0
Trained Path: 0 US Peak Cell Rate: 1056
Trained Mode: 3 Selected Mode: 1
ATUC Vendor Code: 54535443 ATUC Revision: 2
Hybrid Selected: 1 Trellis: 1
Showtime Count: 6 DS Max Attainable Bit Rate: 10912 kbps
BitSwap: 1 US Max Attainable Bit Rate: n/a
Annex: AnxA psd_mask_qualifier: 0x0000
Power Management Status: L0 DS HLINSC: 0
US ACTPSD: -345 DS ACTPSD: -365
Total init. errors: 1 Total init. timeouts: 0
Showtime init. errors: 0 Showtime init. timeouts: 0
Last showtime init. errors: 1 Last showtime init. timeouts: 0
ATUC ghsVid: b5 00 54 53 54 43 00 00
T1413Vid: 00 00 T1413Rev: 00 VendorRev: 00
ATUR ghsVid: b5 00 54 53 54 43 00 00
T1413Vid: 00 00 T1413Rev: 00 VendorRev: 00
[Upstream (TX) Interleave path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 1
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[Downstream (RX) Interleave path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[Upstream (TX) Fast path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[Downstream (RX) Fast path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[ATM Stats]
[Upstream/TX]
Good Cell Cnt: 120094
Idle Cell Cnt: 1444599
Tx Packets Dropped Count: 0
Tx Bad Packets Count: 1067
[Downstream/RX)]
Good Cell Cnt: 693379
Idle Cell Cnt: 27694604
Bad Hec Cell Cnt: 0
Overflow Dropped Cell Cnt: 0
Rx Packets Dropped Count: 0
Rx Bad Packets Count: 0
[SAR AAL5 Stats]
Tx PDU's: 117946335
Rx PDU's: 155121137
Tx Total Bytes: 4246066378
Rx Total Bytes: 461177898
Tx Total Error Counts: 0
Rx Total Error Counts: 676
[OAM Stats]
Near End F5 Loop Back Count: 0
Near End F4 Loop Back Count: 0
Far End F5 Loop Back Count: 0
Far End F4 Loop Back Count: 0
SAR OAM Ping Response Drop Count=0

Slow speeds during peak evening hours (overloaded tower?)

Is anyone else experiencing slow download speeds during peak evening hours? Has been happening the last 3-4 weeks.
Here's what I get during the day:
Here's what I get on many (not all) nights during the last 3-4 weeks:
The UL speeds take only a minor hit. DL speeds are 1/4 of what they normally are during the day. Ping times triple. RSSI is unaffected.
Same results on both my Thunderbolt and Pantech UML290, so I know it's not a device issue.
Tech support told me that the tower may be near its capacity. Really? Is the backhaul on a 4G tower really not enough to handle a relatively small town?

SeaJohn: Your 3M DL and 1M UL are below advertised specs. I would call to complain.
For me, in downtown Stillwater, my TB has seen the following top speeds...
(1) July-August: 30+ Mpbs DL and 15+ Mbps UL
(2) September: 20+ Mbps DL and 10 Mbps UL
(3) October: 15+ Mbps DL and 6-8 Mbps UL (at night, speeds are cut in half)
(4) November: 6-12+ Mbps DL and 4-6 Mbps UL (at night, speeds are cut in half)
But, at night, the speeds tank. TB gets 4 Mbps DL and 2 Mbps UL. I hate to think how slow it will be before they upgrade the backhaul/tower. At this rate, I'll be getting 3G speeds in January.
4GLTE on Verizon used to be much faster than HSPA+ on AT&T. Now, at least here, there's no longer a clear winner.
Speeds are back to slow as usual (these are on the UML290)...

Here we go again! MEGA slow speeds during peak hou...

Hi folks,
I have noticed that during PEAK hours, my XBox Live sessions lag like a [insert expletive here]!
WHY, oh why do BT insist on throttling, nay, strangling their network to the point where it is totally unusable for anything more than basic browsing or sending/receiving emails?!?
I work reasonably long hours and only get two days off per week, so when I have free time, I'd like to game in a relatively lag-free environment, but right now, this isn't happening! Just tonight, in a game of MW2, I was experiencing such bad lag that shot registration was all but extinct!
I know that BT throttle P2P, but I don't use it and wonder why http and other protocols are being throttled as well!
A speedtest.net result:
And one from BT's own speedtester:
Come on, BT! This is NOT the service that I'm paying for and if it continues this way, I'm out of here when my contract ends!

Rottie wrote:
borley wrote:
Totaly agree with you mine has dropped more than 50% , you say your out of here soon as the contract ends i`m sure BT are breaking their contract so i`m sure you have rights to finish it early. BBC Watchdog here we come lol
Hi there,
Thanks for your reply.
As I understand it, BT are only in breach if the speed falls below the "acceptable speed" threshold in your profile, which in my case, is 12000kbps. Even then, I'm almost certain that BT would offer the *cough* "solution" of changing you from FTTC to ADSL.
Personally speaking, I think the issue lies with contention in the network, either locally or at a centralised point. Unfortunately, the only solution for this (other than throttling speeds to the point of being unusable) is to buy in more bandwidth from BT Wholesale, but that of course, would cut too deeply into BT's profits and in turn see us all paying more for next years' service.
What is the purpose in selling/supplying FTTC when the network infrastructure is clearly unable to meet demand? Using marketing ploys to create this artificial/false perception of what FTTC is, a "superfast fibre service" (partial fibre) then once bought by the consumer only to be told that there are restrictions to be applied is merely lying. Even though there is a FUP many of the constraints once the contract is agreed to, are hidden from the customer. Then again this is the case with most companies.

Slow internet during peek hours

Hello,
New to the forum but have been browsing it for a while. For the past 2 weeks I am having issues with my DSL download speed during what seems to be peek hours (from 3pm till midnight). I am on the 3.1-7mbps plan and during morning hours the speedtest.net is showing correct over 6.5 mbps download speed (and the internet in general is fast) but during peek hours it drops between 1-1.3mbps download and all sites seems to be sluggish. I have a tech coming in tomorrow but just by browsing through a couple of pages of this forum, I see this is a rather common occurrence . I am in Rahway, NJ area. My transceiver stats look good and do not fluctuate during day/night. How do I get a hold of higher level technician at Verizon that can actually change the data circuit on their end as it seems to me that their switches may get overloaded during peek hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Transceiver Statistics
Transceiver Revision
A2pB020b3.d20h
Vendor ID Code
4D54
Line Mode
ADSL_G.dmt
Data Path
INTERLEAVED
Transceiver Information
Down Stream Path
Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)
7616
864
Margin (dB)
16.1
11.0
Line Attenuation (dB)
21.0
13.0
Transmit Power (dBm)
18.1
11.9

DSLReports Line Quality Testing:
Test (From Central USA)
Loss
Min
Latency
Avg
Latency
Max
Latency
Pass
Fail
basic ping
10s of 40 byte packets, 2 per second
0%
67.4ms
68.1ms
69.1ms
pass
low bandwidth stream
10s of 512 byte packets at 56 kbit
0%
74.7ms
75.7ms
77.2ms
pass
medium bandwidth stream
was not performed
higher bandwidth stream
was not performed
your first hop ping
stream of 40byte pings to 130.81.198.67
0% loss
44.0ms
You are 23ms
to your first hop
pass
Jitter/loss with small packets tested from Central - USA:
Jitter/loss with small packets tested from West Coast - USA:
1 minute MTR (hop loss analysis) from Central - USA
Hop
Host
LOSS
Rcv
Sent
Best
Avg
Worst
0
ae-1.bb-c.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net
0%
60
60
0.32
0.66
16.91
1
ae-10.bb-c.ms.mkc.us.oneandone.net
0%
60
60
0.74
0.82
1.10
2
64.209.105.233
0%
60
60
13.93
18.73
105.77
3
0.xe-9-2-0.BR3.CHI13.ALTER.NET
0%
60
60
14.10
14.79
44.55
4
so-3-0-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
41.21
42.51
85.17
5
B200.NWRKNJ-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
43.82
46.17
53.48
6
P1-0.NWRKNJ-NWRKNJ02-ERXG13.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
43.30
43.55
45.19
7
(TARGET IP ADDRESS)
0%
60
60
73.78
74.95
76.53
pass
1 minute MTR (hop loss analysis) from West Coast - USA
Hop
Host
LOSS
Rcv
Sent
Best
Avg
Worst
0
100%
0
60
0.00
0.00
0.00
1
ge-2-0-0-0.c01.sjc.bb.megapath.net
0%
60
60
0.75
6.69
169.00
2
ge-6-16.car2.SanJose1.Level3.net
0%
60
60
0.73
16.60
200.93
3
ae-3-80.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net
0%
60
60
1.18
1.37
7.63
4
po9-20G.ar4.SJC2.gblx.net
0%
60
60
1.29
8.81
110.10
5
uunet-1.ar3.sjc2.gblx.net
0%
60
60
1.23
2.79
35.22
6
so-0-3-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
81.56
88.09
149.74
7
P0-15-0-0.NWRKNJ-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
82.79
84.77
87.21
8
P1-0.NWRKNJ-NWRKNJ02-ERXG13.verizon-gni.net
0%
60
60
84.69
84.88
85.45
9
(TARGET IP ADDRESS)
2%
59
60
113.68
114.50
116.43

DSL is being slow during peak hours

I've upgraded my plan to the 7.1mb and during peak hours I've been experiencing slow dsl speeds from around 7pm-12am. My speeds fluctuates between 2-3mb download speed, while the upload speed is unaffected. During morning, and afternoon my speed is solid at 6.5mb download. I never had this issue when I was on my old 3mb plan.
I have called verizon tech support, but that was pointless and waste of time. Wasted one hour on the phone, with the lvl 1 tech who was trying to put the blame on my computer. Anyways here is my stats, and speed test. I have 7500 modem.
This is 100%, congestion on the server during peak, can someone please help resolve this issue so they move me to non congested server. Thank you.
Transceiver Statistics
Transceiver Revision    A2pB020b3.d20h
Vendor ID Code    4D54
Line Mode    ADSL_2plus
Data Path   FAST
Transceiver Information   Down Stream Path   Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)   7645   863
Margin (dB)   8.4   16.1
Line Attenuation (dB)   41.0   20.4
Transmit Power (dBm)   15.3   12.4

1 gw1-g-vlan201.dca.giganews.com (216.196.98.4) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 g3-0.bb1.dca.giganews.com (216.196.96.62) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 xe-8-0-7.ar2.iad1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.10.97) 4 ms 1 ms 4 ms
4 TenGigE0-2-4-0.GW7.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.179.50.93) 0 ms TenGigE0-1-0-0.GW7.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.179.50.73) 0 ms TenGigE0-2-4-0.GW7.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.179.50.93) 0 ms
5 0.xe-0-1-0.XL3.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.77) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
6 0.so-0-2-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (152.63.30.18) 2 ms 0.so-3-2-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (152.63.32.134) 12 ms 0.so-5-2-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (152.63.30.1) 1 ms
7 P15-0-0.NYCMNY-LCR-02.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.199) 10 ms 13 ms 14 ms
8 P15-0.NYCMNY-LCR-10.verizon-gni.net (130.81.27.13) 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms
9 P4-0.NYCMNY-NYCKNYBR-ERXG06.verizon-gni.net (130.81.136.169) 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms
latest speed test, again slow speeds during peak hours.

Thought you didnt get slow downs at peak times?

how come bt say that you wont slow down within peak times but on this site somewhere it says you may notice slow downs during peak times (4-11)???? im still getting high latency issues and its between these times. apparently theres only 30 out of 100 people in the cabinet, surely exchange congestion if thats the case.

So where are you seeing the latency spikes?
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Painfully slow internet speed, even during off-pea...

I have BT Home Hub, I share a house with 3 other students and we are all on the internet 24/7. Been here for a year and it's never been a problem, apart from the monthly emails from BT telling us we are over using our "unlimited" download policy (fair usage and all that) and warnings that they are limiting us to 1Mbps during peak times.
Not that this matters because my speed is below 1 during peak times anyway. I would welcome 1Mbps.
Anyway, none of this really bothered me. But in the past week or so my connection speed has been running between 0.1 and 0.4Mbps all the time. Be it 4pm, or 2am. It's beyond slow. And I don't know what the cause is.

your connection as in your wifi link or your connection as in your routers sync or just the achievable download speed from a server, or your download speed under best effort from a speedtester?
it might sound pedantic but its can be quite important.

Slow internet speed/ dropping internet

I am on the Bt Ifinity 2, last year at summer time (8/10/2014) every thing was fine 59 mb/s down 19.55 mb/s up. bettween then and the 11/11/2014 speeds fell to 13.8mb/s down 10.24mb/s up. (mediafire link for page download for internet speeds http://www.mediafire.com/download/24vs7ra8pyl09qc/bt+stats.rar )
during this time untill the 19/11/2014 the internet would just drop randomly, 3,5,6 times a day commonly (not shown on the graph for due to no internet). the internet droped and the router was not connected to the internet shown by the ui in 192.168.1.254. internet speed is lower then the what was on the speed test so would strugle to steam youtube videos.
i thought that this was a throtling thing origionaly, but i tryed off peak time 1-4 AM the connection dropped slow speeds
we called a bt enginer out for the 19/11/2014 we a router replacement and some line was changed there was no internet dropping untill reasontly speeds increased slightly.
8/1/2015 I was downloading addons for battlefeild on my playstaion when the internet started dropping again the internet speed on speedtest.net showed a resonable speed of 30mb/s down 1.97mb/s up which should be fine for content consumption. well thats what i thought, youtube videos in 240p would not play.
in my oppinion it looks like bt has being throtiling my traffic, but i know bt only "manages p2p taffic during peak times"
any one know whats wrong, by the way there is know other users on the network at the time of the speed tests
Thanks for reading

Next time your speeds are bad, or right now if they are now, please try this:
In order to rule out the Homehub as potentially being the device responsible for your speed loss, you can connect the Openreach modem directly to the PC and see if the speed improves.
To do that follow these steps:
Step 1: Remove the homehub from the modem cable
Step2: Connect your pc/laptop to the modem via the cable instead
Step3: Open network and sharing centre on windows and click set up a new connection or network
Step4: Connect to the internet then click make a new connection Broadband PPPoE
Step5: Username [email protected] and the password as BT
Step6: connect, If it doesn't,keep pressing try again until it does.
However, please note that this will stop any other access apart from the PC
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Massive speed drop during peak time!!

Hi,
I recently switched over to BT broadband (3/11/2014) and unfortunately I have been having some major issues with download speeds during peak times. Off peak times I usually register download speeds of around 12-14Mbps, which is great, but during peak hours (11:00-14:00 and 18:00-22:00) my download speed drops to anywhere between 0.01-1.0Mbps, even on a wired connection. I fully expect speeds to drop during these hours (even though BT claimed on their website that they wouldn’t) but in no way should they even be this slow surely. The internet is completely unusable when the speeds drop as pages can take several minutes to load and I am currently paying for Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions that I simply can’t use because videos or streams will not load, they just constantly buffer!
I have been in contact with the online help chat with this issue and they simply recommended that I reset my router, and whilst this temporarily fixed the issue for a few hours, my problem soon returned. Since then I have not touched the router in over 10 days in the hope that the speeds would start to settle, and whilst off-peak times have improved, peak times are no better than before, and in some cases worse.
I have been patient and given the router and provider 3 weeks to settle down, but I am seeing absolutely no signs of improvement. As I said, I understand that speeds may drop during peak hours, but as it stands I’m basically losing my internet during this time. I’m starting to wonder what it is I’m paying for. I had no such trouble with my previous provider during peak hours, so I’m not sure why there is suddenly a problem.
I am using the Home Hub 4, and here are my ADSL Stats and my test results from Sunday evening (23/11/14):
13:58:12, 23 Nov. ( 81.290000) DSL noise margin: 5.60 dB upstream, 6.10 dB downstream
13:58:11, 23 Nov. ( 80.240000) DSL line rate: 1152 Kbps upstream, 15576 Kbps downstream
18:55:08, 23 Nov. ( 81.160000) DSL noise margin: 6.50 dB upstream, 6.10 dB downstream
18:55:07, 23 Nov. ( 80.100000) DSL line rate: 1104 Kbps upstream, 15288 Kbps downstream
After a network test on my xbox one (wired connection) I got the following:
7.05pm
Download speed: 0.34Mbps
Upload speed: 0.88 Mbps
7.20pm
Download speed: 0.05Mbps
Upload speed: 0.87 Mbps
Speedtest result:
I have tried to get a result from the BT Speed checker, but my internet won’t even load it as of around 7-8pm
During the week I have been browsing the forums in an attempt to locate a possible solution and I came across this thread in which the original poster describes a problem very similar to mine. It seems that switching their line at the exchange to a less congested one seemed to alleviate the problem?
https://community.bt.com/t5/ADSL-Copper-Broadband-Speed/Slow-Peak-time-broadband/m-p/1111272/highlig...
Anyway, hopefully someone can help address and solve these issues as I’m starting to get a bit frustrated and beginning to regret my decision to switch providers.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ben
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Is anything showing here for your exchange http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/?
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15036
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Slow internet because of tiger upgrade. Help please.

OK... I've searched through the threads, and other forums, and see that it IS a fairly common problem, but there's still no fix.
I finally upgraded from 10.3.9, to tiger, and my internet connection is awfull. 30-45 seconds to load a page.
It's not my router, it's not my shared connection with a PC laptop, it's tiger... and from what I've read, it started at the 4.3.3 upgrade.
Here's just a couple discussions I've found on the issue:
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=tiger&Number=732686&pa ge=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=tiger&Number=735358&pa ge=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1
Some of those seem to think that it's just in a wireless connection, but I'm not wireless, and I've found many other people in my same boat.
What's the deal??? how do I fix it? please?
Dual 2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.3.6)
p.s. I've run diskwarrior, repaired permissions, etc. It started the exact second I upgraded to tiger 10.4.6... before that I was flying.

OK... My best understanding is this:
All day (I work from home, so I'm on A LOT), internet seems to work just fine. Maybe a hair slower than before, but not very noticable... and it could be my imagination.
About 8:30-9pm it suddenly come's to a hault. I'll be loading one page fine, then the next page is slow, along with all others that follow. About 1 out of 10 pages loads fast, and about 9 of 10 are slow. On the other hand, if I'm downloading something (I'm in the film industry, and always downloading others' work to critique), it downloads just as fast as during the day... even when a regular page won't load, I see it downloading just fine in the "downloads" window. Most of the time is says "contacting" in the bottom of the Safari window, but sometime's it'll find the site and load it most of the way, then freeze.
Some pages seem to take longer than others, especially these apple forums, which are pretty much impossible to get to after nine. I get this message:
Safari can’t open the page “http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=519698&tstart=0”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.
The forum's I'm a member to seem to have a lot of trouble, and myspace seems to have a lot of trouble.
Then about 11:00 to midnight, it clears up, and is back to it's normal pace. I've been doing speed tests here and there, and when it's slow, the results show that I'm 95% slower than the average "charter" user. During the day, it says I'm 25% slower.
I hooked up my laptop tonight straght to my cable modem, and it seemed to run just fine. That would rule out ISP problems... but it was getting a little late, so I want to try it again tomorrow night during the REALLY slow time's before I rule out ISP.
By the way it's acting, it would make sense that it's just peak hours and my ISP is bogged down... but even during peak hours, it shouldn't be THAT slow, and sometime's I get that error message saying I've lost internet connection. Also, in my first post I posted a link to another forum of others' having the same sort of problem, and their description is VERY similar to what's happening to me.
Sorry if this post seems a little confusing... it's late, and I'm tired.
Dual 2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

[SOLVED] Extremely slow internet

Hello.
I'm having a problem with really slow internet on Arch, but it's working really fast and smooth on Windows. This started to happen once i moved my old HDD to a new built computer, so i wouldn't have to reformat etc. (Now i have reformatted and also tried Debian, same thing there and now)
Any ideas?
rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
# in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
# Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged.
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
# VERBOSE: Verbose level (from 1 to 8). man 3 syslog for level info
LOCALE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Stockholm"
KEYMAP="se-lat6"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=()
# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30
# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"
# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="Cerberus"
# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Wired network setup
# - interface: name of device (required)
# - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
# - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP)
# - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# gateway=192.168.0.1
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=
# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng @network dbus netfs @rtorrent @crond alsa)
resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
hosts
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Cerberus
# End of file
This is my dmesg:
http://pastie.org/2359904
errors.log
http://pastie.org/2359912
messages.log
http://pastebin.com/EUUhWayF
lspci -vv
http://pastie.org/2359917
ICSI Netalyzr
http://n3.netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/su … -44fb-bd2d
Also tried using the DNS assigned to me by the ISP, no difference in speed.
Everything is correct as far as i can see
Last edited by Median (2011-08-13 14:11:34)

Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.377962] BUG: scheduling while atomic: X/13058/0x00000002
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378345] BUG: scheduling while atomic: X/13058/0x00000002
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378752] BUG: scheduling while atomic: X/13058/0x00000002
Dunno how much of an adverse effect *that* bug is having.
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378069] [<ffffffff813e9ed3>] __schedule_bug+0x5f/0x64
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378071] [<ffffffff813f0381>] schedule+0x831/0x9f0
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378095] [<ffffffffa02262e2>] ? firegl_trace+0x72/0x1e0 [fglrx]
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378098] [<ffffffff81045128>] ? __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378116] [<ffffffffa02262e2>] ? firegl_trace+0x72/0x1e0 [fglrx]
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378118] [<ffffffff81046e13>] ? __wake_up+0x53/0x70
Aug 12 09:06:44 localhost kernel: [ 2119.378121] [<ffffffff8107f470>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x60/0x90
And that. You need to investigate these. Hopefully it's just one bug.

Very Slow Internet Lion (This one is for the "Apple Network Team")

hello,
i'm joão from Portugal, Europe.
a couple of weekends ago i've updated three macs to Lion.
2009 MacMini, 2007 White Macbook, 2010 iMac 21".
problems? only with the iMac.
no connection drops but slow slow slow very slow internet. wired, speedtest marked 15Mbps download. wireless? 1Mbps, 0,3Mbps, 3Mbps, very unstable.
with Snow Leopard everything was ok.
tried every solution from every site and finally got it working flawlessly.
tried clean install instead of update.
tried new dns servers.
tried disabling ipv6.
tried remove wifi interface then add it again.
tried service order.
tried PRAM, NVRAM, SMC, you name it, reset.
tried removing preferences folder.
tried different browsers -> same symptoms.
tried disable/enable airport.
tried 10.7.1, 10.7.2, combo, delta.
tried router's firmware update.
tried putting the computer closer to the router.
tried resetting the router, factory defaults.
tried changing router's channel.
tried disabling router's firewall.
tried watch router's event log, nothing suspicious.
tried disabling router's wep password.
tried pinging a site for a couple of minutes, 2% packet loss.
tried hundreds of pages and forums...
during this attempts, macmini and macbook showed very good wireless internet speed.
iMac? slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, like seeing gmail's loading screen for more than one minute...
again and again speedtest 1Mbps, 0,3Mbps, 1Mbps, 1Mbps, 0,3Mbps, 3Mbps.
discovered the pingtest utility in the same site and iMac's ping was grade C, grade F, grade D, with big values...mac mini and macbook were alwas grade B, with low pings (imagine 25ms on them vs. 138ms on the iMac).
i was fed up with the situation, every week tried and failed. iMac's owner was wanting to get his Lion money back and stick to Snow Leopard again. imagine recent Windows switchers thinking they went back to the same situations....
but then i found this website. and then realised macbook and macmini's wi-fi were both powered by a broadcom chipset. iMac's was powered by an Atheros chipset! did what the guy says on that site (replaced Lion's Atheros kernel driver by the one on Slow Leopard), and now everything is perfect, like on Snow Leopard. very good speed.
what a relief. thank you sir.
hope it can help you.
hope it reachs apple's network developers...this is not good, you can't fail on something so simple and essential as decent wifi quality...

humm...
i've clean installed one macbook (late 2008?) and one mac mini (early 2009) both with broadcom adapters and both of them were ok, after the install.
so, speedtest and pingtest are websites (speedtest.net and pingtest.net), both test your internet connection with the help of a 'local' server. it's useful, for instance, if you want see if two different computers connected to the same router have the same connection quality.
so if you can connect to some routers nicely and you have problems with your router, to me, it seems like you have some problems with the connection between your computer and the router.
an old router might bring you problems (there are some advices on the internet to change router's channel and so...), i would recommend to see if motorola has some sort of firmware update to your router. if you don't have complex router configurations, you might try to reset to factory defaults (search the manual). that, once, fixed a problem with a smc router and two macbooks (one, older, could connect easily, the other wouldn't connect to the router).
if that atheros driver trick, resolved your issue, that's strange
make sure broadcom isn't your ethernet adapter and not your wireless adapter
did you resetted your pram and smc? do you have Mac OS 10.7.2?
i hope you can figure that out.

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