Network Timeout on lots of sites

[vegastang]

I'm constantly getting Network Timeout errors on sites like Microsoft,msn etc.Using Windows XP with a cable modem and ethernet connection.I can still get a lot of sites(maybe half).I've tried turning off firewalls,rebooting modem, changed ethernet cable,running various anti-virus programs and fixes(like Winsock)all to no avail.Any ideas?

[johnwill]

Register at DSLReports and run their Line Quality Tests. It's best to run this test with a direct wired connection to eliminate any wireless issues from the results. It's useful many times to run this test several times, and we'd like to see each of the results. Post the results link from the top of the test display page for each test run here.

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If you wish to post this result to a forum, please copy/paste this URL
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2357195 <- sample only, yours will obviously be different!
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Copy/paste that link here.

Note: You will have to enable PING (ICMP) request response either in your router (if you have one), or in your computer's firewall for direct modem connections. This is very important to get the most important part of the test to run.

[vegastang]

http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2423319
and your IP will be disguised.

browse recent results from IPs on the domain cgocable.net
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Test Loss Min
Latency Avg
Latency Max
Latency Pass
Fail
Simple ping loss check
10secs of 40byte packets 2 per second 0% loss 41.5ms 43.8ms 47.6ms
pass
low bandwidth stream
10secs of 56k/bit ping stream 512byte packets 0% loss 42.2ms 45.1ms 58.3ms
pass
medium bandwidth stream
10secs of 128k/bit ping stream 512byte packets 0% loss 42.3ms 43.8ms 58.7ms
pass
your first hop ping
stream of 40byte pings to 24.226.9.94 0% loss 36.0ms You are 5ms
to your first hop
pass
Ping plot:


Ping plot:


From East Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 ge-3-2-0-0.bb-a.tla.nyc.us.oneandone.net 0% 60 60 0.53 0.87 9.64
1 so-1-0-0-0.bb-a.cr.chi.us.oneandone.net 0% 60 60 22.02 26.37 86.82
2 rt1ec-equinix.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 21.98 22.27 26.41
3 ra1ec-tge4-1.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 22.18 26.29 214.15
4 h64-141-24-6.bigpipeinc.com 0% 60 60 35.56 35.84 40.63
5 d226-9-94.home.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 36.22 36.57 39.98
6 d121-235-255.home3.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 42.45 44.47 51.21
(pass)
From West Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 bigpipe.needs.pointer.here.bigpipe.com 0% 60 60 1.26 1.56 2.31
1 rc1ch-pos2-0.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.43 50.72 50.95
2 rd1ec-pos10-0.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.65 50.84 51.12
3 ra1ec-tge3-1.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.69 60.11 199.99
4 h64-141-24-10.bigpipeinc.com 0% 60 60 64.07 64.35 65.53
5 d226-9-94.home.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 64.82 65.08 65.58
6 d121-235-255.home3.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 70.98 72.52 78.55
(pass)



http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2423329
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browse recent results from IPs on the domain cgocable.net
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Test Loss Min
Latency Avg
Latency Max
Latency Pass
Fail
Simple ping loss check
10secs of 40byte packets 2 per second 0% loss 43.0ms 43.5ms 45.3ms
pass
low bandwidth stream
10secs of 56k/bit ping stream 512byte packets 0% loss 42.8ms 44.7ms 54.3ms
pass
medium bandwidth stream
10secs of 128k/bit ping stream 512byte packets 0% loss 42.3ms 44.6ms 54.0ms
pass
your first hop ping
stream of 40byte pings to 24.226.9.94 0% loss 36.1ms You are 6ms
to your first hop
pass
Ping plot:


Ping plot:


From East Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 ge-3-2-0-0.bb-a.tla.nyc.us.oneandone.net 0% 60 60 0.52 0.81 4.73
1 so-1-0-0-0.bb-a.cr.chi.us.oneandone.net 0% 60 60 22.04 22.69 48.02
2 rt1ec-equinix.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 22.01 22.53 30.95
3 ra1ec-tge4-1.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 22.23 28.74 130.91
4 rx0ec-cogeco-1.il.bigpipeinc.com 0% 60 60 35.52 36.49 72.95
5 d226-9-94.home.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 36.29 37.26 76.08
6 d121-235-255.home3.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 42.52 44.58 47.67
(pass)
From West Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 bigpipe.needs.pointer.here.bigpipe.com 0% 60 60 1.21 1.59 2.17
1 rc1ch-pos2-0.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.49 50.73 51.24
2 rd1ec-pos10-0.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.65 50.83 51.45
3 ra1ec-tge3-1.il.shawcable.net 0% 60 60 50.71 60.59 238.44
4 h64-141-24-10.bigpipeinc.com 0% 60 60 64.10 64.29 64.78
5 d226-9-94.home.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 64.76 65.12 65.58
6 d121-235-255.home3.cgocable.net 0% 60 60 71.05 73.28 82.64
(pass)

[johnwill]

Well, that looks good, so it's not the connection, at least not at that time.

I'd start thinking that maybe it's the ISP DNS servers, that could be an issue.


Let's try replacing your DNS server. Follow the instructions at OpenDNS for Windows and configure to use OpenDNS for your DNS server. See if that makes a difference.

[vegastang]

I replaced the DNS server with Opendns as suggested but it didn't make a difference.I also tried updating to SP3 from SP2 from a site I could connect to but got an error saying "access denied" about half way through the install.Might be related to the problem but I don't know.

[johnwill]

That's not good that it bombed in the middle!

I think I'd consider trying SFC: SFC Tutorial