{"id":181,"date":"2008-01-12T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T06:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-01-26T00:47:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T08:47:59","slug":"how-can-you-tell-your-router-is-having-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/181","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell your router is having issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky and I have both been noticing that our Internet connection slows down whenever a significant amount of output data is moving through the pipe. Officially, our DSL is supposed to be 3000\/768 kbps but any time I run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/speedtest\" target=\"_blank\">speed test<\/a>, I get around 2500 kbps down which is acceptable but only get around 165 kbps up. Normally this isn&#8217;t a big deal as there isn&#8217;t normally much upstream data going on, but when Becky&#8217;s mother comes online, my systems start backing up to her system via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashplan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CrashPlan<\/a>. Even running &quot;full out&quot; I only get 165 kbps up which is far short from the expected 768 that I should be getting.<\/p>\n<p>In trying to isolate this, I disconnected my entire home setup (eight devices connected via three routers) and hooked a laptop up directly to the modem. A repeat of the test gave me spec&#8217;d performance and restoring my setup (after resetting the router) gave me a good test as well, but any subsequent one was poor. I am nearly 100% certain it isn&#8217;t due to another device filling the pipe (I monitor all my systems via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacti.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cacti<\/a>). Even if one was, it still is capped out at 165 kbps. I&#8217;ll need to repeat a few tests to try and isolate and identify the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else works as expected. I get frustrated with strange problems like this.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Based on Matthew&#8217;s comment, I made sure that each of the three inside instances of CrashPlan are throttled (only one was connecting to an outside server). That made no difference. Tonight, I tried swapping out my main router with another Linksys and got the same results. I then connected my laptop directly to the modem which also had the same results. I reset the modem and am having good performance, but as I did that in the past, I&#8217;m expecting the outgoing to become poor again based on past tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky and I have both been noticing that our Internet connection slows down whenever a significant amount of output data is moving through the pipe. 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