network woes

[Benjamin Francom]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> Trent,
>
> I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down
> on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all the connections and
> found that a switch was reseting itself and dropping packets. Basically, I
> turn everything off, reset all the routers, cable modems, etc, and then turn
> on one piece of equipment at a time and ping to the main router to see if I
> can connect and if there is any packet loss. You can find a out a lot of
> information by being methodical and knowing your network topology.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
>>
>> Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken.  Load times take
>> forever.  It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I
>> have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and
>> Windows Vista.  Sometimes the Linux machine effectively looses
>> connectivity with the Internet.  It comes back if I log out of my X
>> session and log back in ... most of the time.  I have a firewall router,
>> but effectively no household LAN since I've been too lazy to really
>> figure out how to configure the Ubuntu desktop machine as a primary
>> domain controller, then adjust it's firewall to suit.
>>
>>
>> I'd like an idiot friendly tool to help track this problem down,
>> preferably on the Linux machine which seems to experience the problem
>> most consistently.
>>
>> Baring a GUI tool friendly to mortal users, I am not above using the
>> @#$% command line and a text editor.
>>
>>
>> I am not too network savvy.  I have to look up the layers of the OSI
>> stack every time.  What is a reasonable diagnostic or fault tree for
>> approaching my symptoms.
>>
>> It is also worth noting that this problem seems to date back to
>> precisely when I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.
>>
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Unplug all devices for at least one min.  Start with modem and work
your way up to the PC
The Vista and Ubuntu machines are separate machines, not a single dual
boot, right?

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