Modem and/or networking trouble...?

[Simon White]

28-Apr-02 at 16:27, Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm) wrote :
> Hi all,
> 
> Ever since upgrading to YDL v2.2, I am suddenly having trouble with PPP
> connections over my modem. It seems that traffic doesn't flow smoothly,
> but "pauses" for a few seconds, every few seconds.
> 
> If I ping the far side of my modem link, I get the following:
> 
> 64 bytes from 196.30.128.26: icmp_seq=246 ttl=255 time=10.830 sec

What else is running? I find sometimes that another connection can steal
all traffic, and ping takes forever (it is not high priority in the TCP/IP
stack).

Regards,

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