[mdlug] Network Slowdown Troubleshooting/Netgear WNDR3700 Free To Good Home

[Peter Bart]

Good Morning Everyone,
	I have a small home network made up of an AT&T Uverse modem, a
	router, and a switch. What I found after much trial and error;
	by accident; is that my router would stop downloads after about
	5-8 minutes and just hang. I found that out trying to get
	openSUSE 12.1 downloaded. Up to that point I would get
	complaints about youtube videos not being able to be played w/o
	reloading and a general sense something wasn't quite right. My
	download went lickety split when I plugged into the ethernet
	port on the modem, bypassing the router. What I found was the
	the download started and quickly spooled up to 11-12Mbs; my
	connection speed; then around 5-8 minutes in sagged to 5-8Mbs
	and then back up to 11-12Mbs. About the same time frame my
	router would stop the download. Of course when I check my
	bandwidth speed it was allways good for those few seconds the
	test was running.

	I have several questions. Is what I'm experiencing called
	latency? Or am I having a throughput issue? Am I completely
	off? Is there some relatively easy method for detecting this
	type of issue besides trial and error? 
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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
<petertheplumber at att.net>