My battle with Earthlink

[Michael Butash]

Is it an integrated router in the modem?  They tend to suck - might be 
exhausting connection limits or something (bittorents?).  I'd say set 
the modem to "bridge" if so and use/try a 3rd party router.

Another thing is it sounds like you're triggering something like a 
policer that at a high mark "penalizes" you and reduces your cir 
temporarily.  Network Quality of Service boxes like Sandvine deep-packet 
inspection (dpi) appliances were known to do this as a policy (abuse), 
and most isp's have and/or use something like them.  This is almost 
defacto in 3g/4g cell networks.

No one will flat out admit to it really in a non-cell network that 
"unlimited" bandwidth is advertised and perceived, but even Cox had them 
installed and ready to turn on until the backlash against Comcast for 
using Sandvine's stopped them.

-mb


On 02/17/2013 08:42 PM, JD Austin wrote:
> My guess is your DSL modem is rebooting; how old is it?
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com
> <mailto:expat.arizonan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     For several weeks I've had a problem with my earthlink dsl service.
>     Anytime I'm doing something that uses all or most of my downstream
>     bandwidth, all data coming into or going out of my apartment stops.