For quite a while now I have been having problems browsing various websites. I have had the most trouble browsing sites related to Google. I am not exactly sure what the problem is my router doesn’t loose sync, it doesn’t loose connection the the gateway either.
The problems are not restricted to Google sites, but 99% of the time it is international sites, this might have something to do with the fact that I mostly browse international sites though. Google Analytics and Google Maps are a nightmare to use, a page will just sit loading for ages with nothing happening, the activity light on my router doesn’t flash but just sits there happily and steadily glowing green. I have to click on what ever I last clicked on again and hope that the page will load this time round. This is beyond irritating I assure you.
I did a Line Quality test at DSL Reports. I saw something interesting, on the 2 IPs closest to my IP there was 4-5% packet loss. Another interesting thing is that whenever I ping Google, I normally end up with 1 packet being lost. If I flood ping with 100 packets, I get 1 packet lost, if I flood ping with 20 packets, I get one packet lost. Sometimes I get a lot higher packet loss (60-80%) but most of the time I get this 1 packet being lost, would this be enough of break a request sent by my browser? Would this single packet being lost be the reason my browser sits ‘transferring from google.com’ for 10 mins to infinity and my router’s activity light sits completely not blinking? If so how can I find this out?
Anyway one of the support staff at the ISP I use said I have high noise on my line and my connection keeps dropping due to port errors. This does seem like it could be the problem, I think this because of what I saw on the DSL Reports Line Quality test. Specifically on the ping plot, all the lines will be full, then all of a sudden one will be empty, then the next one is full again. Maybe this is where my line has dropped. Maybe this is where my request is being broken. Maybe. I have logged an ADSL fault with Telkom so I will have to see how that turns out, I hope they send a technician out sometime soon. I did log it online as I didn’t feeling like sitting on the phone listening to the same sample of the same 3 songs for 30 mins, and then going through the whole unplugging and plugging in again of my router and telling them where the power is plugged into (?) and telling them where the phone line is plugged in and what lights are on etc etc.
And this is the end of my completely uninteresting post on my current ADSL problems!
