When I am playing online games, about every 5-30 minutes I will get connection problems for 5-20 seconds each time where service just hangs. Things like Xfire and webpages also seem to be affected by this, but I cannot be sure it is just net congestion. This is on Comcast cable 3MB\256. Only has been happening for the last few weeks, before that it was perfect for months.
A tech came out today and replaced my splitters, and tested the line. He said he 'wasn't happy' with the values and ended up running an entire new line from the street directly to my cable modem, at which point he said the values were good.
Of course I went right online and started up BF Vietnam and BAM! After 20 minutes got a 10 second pause. Immediately checking my firewall (Zone Alarm) I found a 4 blocked attempts from comcast 'in.addr.arpa', and the way I understand it, this is used for ip address verification. I get alot of blocks for this, but never from Comcast (usually like 203.in.addr.arpa or similar).
I set my internet zone to medium from high and started to play again. About 30 minutes in I got another pause, but it only lasted for a second (alot less than usual).
Other people are complaining on Comcast's forums about the same thing, and it seems to me that the problem may be because of recent Comcast changes. They are now charging for extra computers connected to your line, and introduced new tiers (4MB\512). I am not the network guru by any stretch of the imagination, but my theory based off the ip verification and services is that they are constantly trying to verify addresses to find people using more than one comp behind a hub/router, and this is causing problems somehow.
Any thoughts are appreciated. If I am supposed to allow this 'in.addr.arpa' I cannot find how to in ZA, if anyone knows how to do this pls tell!
A tech came out today and replaced my splitters, and tested the line. He said he 'wasn't happy' with the values and ended up running an entire new line from the street directly to my cable modem, at which point he said the values were good.
Of course I went right online and started up BF Vietnam and BAM! After 20 minutes got a 10 second pause. Immediately checking my firewall (Zone Alarm) I found a 4 blocked attempts from comcast 'in.addr.arpa', and the way I understand it, this is used for ip address verification. I get alot of blocks for this, but never from Comcast (usually like 203.in.addr.arpa or similar).
I set my internet zone to medium from high and started to play again. About 30 minutes in I got another pause, but it only lasted for a second (alot less than usual).
Other people are complaining on Comcast's forums about the same thing, and it seems to me that the problem may be because of recent Comcast changes. They are now charging for extra computers connected to your line, and introduced new tiers (4MB\512). I am not the network guru by any stretch of the imagination, but my theory based off the ip verification and services is that they are constantly trying to verify addresses to find people using more than one comp behind a hub/router, and this is causing problems somehow.
Any thoughts are appreciated. If I am supposed to allow this 'in.addr.arpa' I cannot find how to in ZA, if anyone knows how to do this pls tell!
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