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 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. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >