Unstable internet connection

[Mossel]

Good morning all

I have been battling with a very irritating problem.
My internet connection is rather unstable, but only when it comes to direct and p2p downloads.
For everything else, like browsing, gaming and viewing youtube vids it works fine.

Let's use Steam as an example: I will start downloading a game from steam, it will download perfectly at roughly 100kbps for about 5-15 seconds, then (if you look at the download graph Steam draws), it drops down to zero for about the same time. The same goes for other applications like utorrent.

Now I can live with this, but the issue comes in with certain applications that dont like being interrupted while downloading, like for instance iTunes. Whenever I download something from itunes I have to do it about 3-5 times before it actually completes the download.

I am running windows 7 64bit, and Im with Telkom. I also have n rather cheap router: Tenda W150M.

So, my question is this: Where do you think my problem is? With the router or with telkom? And how do i fix this?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Gboss]

Good morning all

I have been battling with a very irritating problem.
My internet connection is rather unstable, but only when it comes to direct and p2p downloads.
For everything else, like browsing, gaming and viewing youtube vids it works fine.

Let's use Steam as an example: I will start downloading a game from steam, it will download perfectly at roughly 100kbps for about 5-15 seconds, then (if you look at the download graph Steam draws), it drops down to zero for about the same time. The same goes for other applications like utorrent.

Now I can live with this, but the issue comes in with certain applications that dont like being interrupted while downloading, like for instance iTunes. Whenever I download something from itunes I have to do it about 3-5 times before it actually completes the download.

I am running windows 7 64bit, and Im with Telkom. I also have n rather cheap router: Tenda W150M.

So, my question is this: Where do you think my problem is? With the router or with telkom? And how do i fix this?

Thank you in advance!

Have you looked over at the Telkom thread? http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...r-Feedback?p=10594243&viewfull=1#post10594243

There are issues in the Cape area

 

[Mossel]

No I haven't! Will check it out! Thank you!

 

[Sonic2k]

Good morning all

I have been battling with a very irritating problem.
My internet connection is rather unstable, but only when it comes to direct and p2p downloads.
For everything else, like browsing, gaming and viewing youtube vids it works fine.

Let's use Steam as an example: I will start downloading a game from steam, it will download perfectly at roughly 100kbps for about 5-15 seconds, then (if you look at the download graph Steam draws), it drops down to zero for about the same time. The same goes for other applications like utorrent.

Now I can live with this, but the issue comes in with certain applications that dont like being interrupted while downloading, like for instance iTunes. Whenever I download something from itunes I have to do it about 3-5 times before it actually completes the download.

I am running windows 7 64bit, and Im with Telkom. I also have n rather cheap router: Tenda W150M.

So, my question is this: Where do you think my problem is? With the router or with telkom? And how do i fix this?

Thank you in advance!

I have seen cheap routers do this...
The internal resources are spread thin, and by its very nature p2p applications open up a lot of sockets and a lot of data comes in, the stack inside that router is probably having buffer overflows.

That said, the MTU being set incorrectly can also cause this. Inside the router, set it to 1492 and see if that helps.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

As far as I can tell the Tenda W150M is not a DSL modem. What is being used to establish the connection (i.e. what is connecting to your phone line)?

 

[Sonic2k]

As far as I can tell the Tenda W150M is not a DSL modem. What is being used to establish the connection (i.e. what is connecting to your phone line)?

Ah interesting... I was wondering. Usually they supply Billion or another brand I forget.

 

[Kawak]

Have dealt with a tenda WiFi router before (diff model) and found that even though they have their own dhcp and ip range. Their dhcp server has a tendency to overwrite the modem/router that is plugged in its wan port. This issue was intermittent and gave similar problems to what you're describing except in this case, client wasn't able to watch YouTube in any smooth way on a 4mbps line.

Solved it by taking dhcp off tenda. Plugged main router/modem into one of the lan ports.