Intermittent packs drop, across all platform

Hi guys, great source of help and information, keep up the good work. Hopefully I will be able to contribute some day ^^ Problem: Intermittent connection to internet, happens every 5 to 20 min, none time specific, drops anywhere from 1 sec to 2 min. 2 xp machines hard wired to modem 2 feet away, win 7, 3 android, 2 ipad, 1 mac, wireless connected. All platforms drops at same time. Facts: Time Warner sent out techs to visit 4 times, replaced modem once, verified wiring good/solid, replaced underground wire from street box to house connector. Observation: During drop out, unable to ping, pathping, or tracert. modem show no disconnection of any sort, lights blazing as normal. tech support from isp says connection is solid. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\James>tracert rr.com (this is when connection is up) Tracing route to rr.com [24.28.199.168] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 20 ms 29 ms 40 ms cpe-75-83-240-1.socal.res.rr.com [[removed]] 2 15 ms 12 ms 9 ms [removed] 3 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms tge0-8-0-8.cyprcabw-ccr02.socal.rr.com [72.129.2 1.108] 4 25 ms 33 ms 11 ms [removed] 5 11 ms 27 ms 11 ms [removed] 6 91 ms 94 ms 96 ms ae-5-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com [[removed]] 7 80 ms 77 ms 100 ms ge-0-0-0.ar1.dca01.tbone.rr.com [[removed]] 8 76 ms 76 ms 92 ms [removed] 9 77 ms 80 ms 75 ms [removed] 10 88 ms 75 ms 77 ms 24-28-199-168.rr.com [24.28.199.168] Trace complete. (another attempt during outage) C:\Documents and Settings\James>tracert rr.com Tracing route to rr.com [24.28.199.168] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 18 ms 19 ms 11 ms tge0-8-0-8.cyprcabw-ccr02.socal.rr.com [72.129.2 1.108] 4 * * 11 ms [removed] 5 60 ms 27 ms 12 ms [removed] 6 91 ms 112 ms 97 ms ae-5-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com [[removed]] 7 * * 94 ms ge-0-0-0.ar1.dca01.tbone.rr.com [[removed]] 8 75 ms 108 ms 77 ms [removed] 9 95 ms 80 ms 77 ms [removed] 10 * 77 ms 93 ms 24-28-199-168.rr.com [24.28.199.168] Trace complete. (ping report will look like this ) Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=54 Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=54 Reply from 24.28.199.168: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=54 Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for [removed]: Packets: Sent = 3539, Received = 3449, Lost = 90 (2% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 74ms, Maximum = 412ms, Average = 85ms I believe the problem lie out side of my house, a line from upper connection possibly crossed or grounded with someone else. Question: Is it possible that I have a worm/software/malware/hardware that's crawling on my network, and preventing all my platforms from solid connection? Any input is highly appreciated, and thank you very much for the time you have spend reading and pondering this. Sincerely, James

Have you tried an alternate DNS ? Possibly OpenDNS

Have you tried an alternate DNS ?

Possibly OpenDNS

I don't think that is the problem, but I have gave it a shot.
same problem still after switching 1 machine to opendns.
Thanks for your input tho.

James

Just found out something interesting. I was downloading a few TV episodes on bitcomet just now, and the drop packets started, I was unable to browse the net, unable to ping as usual. However, the interruption did not effect bitcomet's download, as matter fact the download speed picked up more. So now I am guessing it is not ISP related or hardware related. Possible network type malware/worm is blocking ports on my home network. Any thoughts on the subject? I started a thread in virus forum already, hopefully they might recognize it better.

While we do not, by agreement with Forum TOU, assist with the use and funcionality of P2P/torrent applications, I can invite you to rid one or more of your machines from any installed torrent application, then turn-off or disconnect all remaining machines. Then, if you deem it important (particularly if you know that you have configured the router to open various ports), power-cycle your modem and router, or better, completely reset both router and modem to factory default (tedius perhaps but useful) and then run with the one or more machines that have been cleared of bit-torrent. If your observation and hypothesis is correct, these freshly cleansed machines and network components will function properly and will not demonstrate the packet-drop phenomenon. If the above experiment proves out the result, then you have your answer. If not, then one or more of your machines may in fact be infected with unwanted software that was not removed by uninstall of torrent application and you would then be well advised to use the services of our excellent Malware Removal forums.

I fully appreciate about not supporting torrent, but that was not the subject I was asking, it's was a simple observation. Anyway, thx for the time and input. I have figured out the problem area. Turns out to be that my Motorola Surfboard cable modem was the bad connection. For some reason, the firewall on it will drop/block packets at will. solution was to set it to bridge mode, and use my own dd-wrt router. Hopefully this might help someone else out there, and I know there is a lot of them ^^ good luck.