Hey, As some may recall I bought a new router and modem. I was sort of hoping one or both of those would solve a issue I've noticed for a good long while. At times, my internet gets really slow, slower than it should be at least. I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should. This is what the modem shows for speed:
Downstream Rate 1536 Kbps Upstream Rate 384 Kbps Don't laugh OK. I live in the sticks and for many years, I was lucky to get 26K down on dial-up. I hoping for faster one day but this is better than dial-up, mostly. ;-) Here's some info. This slow down seems to always happen in the evenings, somewhere between 6 and 9PM. Generally, the rest of the time it is pretty close to its max speed. Because it works most of the time, I'm thinking this is not hardware or cable related. I'd think it more consistently slow if it was. That said, it does the same with any modem, any router or any sets of cables. I even bought some bulk cable and ends then made my own cables and tested them with a ohm meter to be sure they were really good. No improvement. I also disabled the wireless on my cell phone to be sure it wasn't doing something funny. It is set to download only when I tell it but there is one google thing that ignores that. The only things I see is in the logs. Here is some of the log from the modem, currently the Netgear 7550. 2020/04/06 21:54:15 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=185.175.93.23 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=241 ID=29175 PROTO=TCP SPT=56054 DPT=5937 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:54:13 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=176.113.115.54 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 ID=34879 PROTO=TCP SPT=50930 DPT=1683 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:54:03 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=176.113.115.52 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 ID=21875 PROTO=TCP SPT=50932 DPT=31240 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:53:43 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=185.153.198.249 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x20 TTL=234 ID=8388 PROTO=TCP SPT=58950 DPT=33995 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:53:39 CDT WRN | kernel | ICMP:logOutboundBlocked:IN= OUT=ppp0 SRC=74.188.249.233 DST=152.32.191.35 LEN=34 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=6687 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=0 CODE=0 ID=16298 SEQ=0 2020/04/06 21:53:32 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=51.178.78.153 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x20 TTL=238 ID=54321 PROTO=TCP SPT=58684 DPT=8000 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:53:24 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=185.153.198.240 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x20 TTL=234 ID=43550 PROTO=TCP SPT=50631 DPT=47025 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:53:19 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=216.58.193.142 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x80 TTL=121 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=50020 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0 2020/04/06 21:53:01 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=146.88.240.4 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=245 ID=54321 PROTO=UDP SPT=43443 DPT=137 LEN=58 2020/04/06 21:52:58 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=176.113.115.247 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 ID=64147 PROTO=TCP SPT=50902 DPT=31405 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) 2020/04/06 21:52:50 CDT WRN | kernel | logInboundBlocked:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=170.106.36.63 DST=74.188.249.233 LEN=44 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x00 TTL=243 ID=54321 PROTO=TCP SPT=59903 DPT=5938 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405AC) I googled but didn't really find anything, good or bad, about those entries. This is from the router, the TP-Link I bought a few months ago. Index Time Type Level Log Content 199 Apr 6 21:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Send ACK to 192.168.0.100 198 Apr 6 21:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Recv REQUEST from 00:01:53:80:DC:35 197 Apr 6 21:21:57 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Send ACK to 192.168.0.101 196 Apr 6 21:21:57 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Recv REQUEST from A8:87:B3:B4:F9:5E 195 Apr 6 20:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Send ACK to 192.168.0.100 194 Apr 6 20:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Recv REQUEST from 00:01:53:80:DC:35 193 Apr 6 20:24:21 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Send ACK to 192.168.0.101 192 Apr 6 20:24:21 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Recv REQUEST from A8:87:B3:B4:F9:5E 191 Apr 6 19:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Send ACK to 192.168.0.100 190 Apr 6 19:57:17 DHCP INFO DHCPS:Recv REQUEST from 00:01:53:80:DC:35 I'm only copying a small portion of it because it is very repetitive. It's pretty much the same thing over and over again. I'm not thinking those are errors tho. The router sure does send recv DHCP stuff often tho. Does anyone see anything that is a problem here? I'm thinking my ISP is just overloaded and throttling the connection. I've swapped hardware and cables to the point that I don't see how it could be that. Possible I guess but not sure how several cables, two routers and three modems, two different brands, can all have the same issue. Am I missing anything? Any other ideas? Thoughts? Dale :-) :-)
