Last night my packet loss was so high I couldn't even post here.
Today, the packet loss is low enough that I can post, but still pretty poor.
This my pinging the default gateway this morning and afternoon"
PING 99.253.156.1 (99.253.156.1) 56(84) ...
Did a litte bit more debugging on this using tcpdump and pinging my computer from the cloud. It appears that the packet loss is uni-directional, that is, packets from my home are being dropped, not packets from the internet.
Packet loss still bad this morning. My SMC gateway is in bridge mode so I attached a computer directly to it and got a second public IP in a different subnet, however, the packet loss is about the same on the alternate IP, pinging that default gatewa...
I am also seeing this issue. At first I thought it was my modem firmware (SMCD3GN), however, now I suspect it is a contention at the Rogers CMTS i.e. the CMTS is having problems because it is over-subscribed. Sometimes after I reboot the modem, the p...
I am now starting to think that this is really a mis-configuration or resource contention problem in the CMTS rather than my modem. The problem went away for a several days, now it is back. I don't think anything changed in the modem.
In bridge mode you can still access the web-gui at http://192.168.100.1 however, you will have to MANUALLY setup the IP address in your PC (because in bridge mode the the SMC does not dish out private DHCP). So, you need to manually set your PC addre...
