HELP Weird drop out and unusual speed test results?!??! any help greatly appreciated.

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dlads

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HI All,

I have a Belkin Wired router F5D5231-4 it has served me well for about a year now, I also have another computer feeding off it too and my broadband is cable 20Mb.

However, only recently i started getting strange drop outs whilst playing online games (Call of duty 4, crysis wars) and u-torrent also fluctuates quite a bit too, ( it will shoot up to 1.0 Mbps and then drop down intermittently to 0 and then back up again).

The strangest thing of all these anomalies has to be the speed test on speedtest.net, the test will begin on my local server (London) and it will progress through the initial ping test, which i will score between 17 to 34 ms, and then it will do the download test, which will shoot up to 4Mbps and thennnn it will go up to anything from 240 to 300Mbps !!!!! I mean i would love to have those kind of speeds but i know that it's a bad result. However, this test yields pretty much the same results on a consistent basis, and i really don't know what to do about it, or to make of it.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as i am due to get modern warfare 2 delivered soon and i don't want any hiccups lol. : (

SOrry i almost forgot, the upload speed is 0.70Mbps - 0.73Mbps which i think is normal, tests prior to this happening have always been around the 19Mbps mark.

The other pc is working fine, and for strictly browsing the internet and downloading (besides the fluctuations), theyre both fine, it just seems to be the weird tests and the online gaming.

I'm trying to upload a snapshot, i took of one of the tests (which i jackknived using paint to hide my ip and such)

In my sig is my normal download upload speeds!!! any help would be great guys.
 

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Nah it's cable, thanks for getting back to me tho, just tried switching off the routers firewall and also tried not having a static ip, both had the same results, also changed my ethernet cable.

This is a new problem and i have had no problems for over two years with this setup.
 
Does sound like ur being managed. But to do another test, stop utorrent and restart the pc it is on. (and dont run it again, if it auto starts, stop it from doing it)

If u find everything is magically ok again, just go into the utorrent settings and lessen the number of active up/downloads, the maximum connections, and connections per torrent.
 
To Siravarice, I have a 20Mbps connetion from Virgin who supply all cables and the modem, i bought the Router myself, and the other pc i have does not have this problem.

To Rastalovich, I have not got utorrent running at all today or yesterday for the matter, I have literally switched my pc on (utorrent is not set to start with windows) and ran a speedtest and tried to get onto call of duty MW.

Oh and to make matters worse for me, My copy of MW2 just turned up in the post lol, the irony.
 
I know that recently a lot of ISP's have been hacking back download speeds to see what affects it has on P2P stuff. mine was only like it for two or three days then it was fine.
 
It's not that, my isp can't get through my firewall anyway, i always know when theyre port scanning me , cos i get a warning sign, Bit defender does the same thing too. (good stuff)

Anyway, i took off the Router and the call of duty 6 game worked fine, so i think it may be a problem with the router.

It's weird cos i can still browse the internet, download etc but i can't play games, utorrent runs fine, it's just that it drops down sometimes, but i can live with that, as it goes back up again in a few seconds, i never get slow speeds all the time.

It's just this weird speedtest result i keep getting and the intermittent disconnects i get when the router is involved when playing games online.

It all started when one day when i was trying to get online, my pcs were all offline, so i checked about and didnt know what was going on, everntually i updated the firmware for my router and then it worked, only problem is that since then i've had these problems, any way of reverting back? Belkin just want to send me a new router.
 
name='dlads' said:
It's not that, my isp can't get through my firewall anyway, i always know when theyre port scanning me , cos i get a warning sign, Bit defender does the same thing too. (good stuff)

Anyway, i took off the Router and the call of duty 6 game worked fine, so i think it may be a problem with the router.

It's weird cos i can still browse the internet, download etc but i can't play games, utorrent runs fine, it's just that it drops down sometimes, but i can live with that, as it goes back up again in a few seconds, i never get slow speeds all the time.

It's just this weird speedtest result i keep getting and the intermittent disconnects i get when the router is involved when playing games online.

It all started when one day when i was trying to get online, my pcs were all offline, so i checked about and didnt know what was going on, everntually i updated the firmware for my router and then it worked, only problem is that since then i've had these problems, any way of reverting back? Belkin just want to send me a new router.
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Sounds like a router problem then. The port thing is completely different to what you're thinking off.

Revert back to the old firmware by downloading the old version of the firmware. You can find it by Google.
 
Youngie's probably nailed it there.

Have known of some routers just simply locking up when introduced to some torrent setups, merely cos of the internal memory buffer overflowing from all the people fingering u. Hard reseting the router would normally get u back to some normalcy until the torrenters find ur back online and u get flooded again. Limiting the upload possibilities can stop this. But some routers need that reverting to factory settings to get working again - I remember the Linksys 54gs doing this.

To pinpoint the area of ur whole network that is responsible for the issues is as simple a process as trying to get a fully built rig working. Take out all the components u can and see if the basic works, then start introducing kit until the problem comes back. So in ur case, u could connect a pc directly to the virgin modem just to be sure u can rule out the isp issues.

If that single pc directly connected to the modem is once again flying like u'd expect, just as with the pc components u left out of the case when the pc works, u look at ur network gear u havent plugged in. Switches/routers/whatever.

Bet Youngie's got it with the router having a problem.
 
Thanks for the responses, I tried to find an older version of the routers firmware to update to but when i tried to install it, it said error. So i don't know whats up with it, and it was from the Belkin website.

Do you know of any websites which host older firmware drivers and such because i cannot get any help from the belkin website, and the customer service is appalling, i've been speaking to some freak in india or somewhere who doesnt understand my accent and i have trouble with theirs too, It's hard work.

I'll plod on trying to find older firmwares for my router as i have eliminated everything else already, im just having a problem trying to revert back.

Any ideas?
 
Hey Youngie ! Sure its a belkin F5D5231-4uk v4000 firmware version is 3.01.06 but the website says it's called 3.01.03 but it isn't? as that is the very same one i have installed, I have tried extensively to find a bloody firmware file for this router and i keep coming to a dead end, not much support for it besides what Belkin has to offer which is not a lot at all.

This is the belkin page, my one would be 10/100 F5D5231-4uk and then v4000 but like i said before, this is a really bad firmware and probably the root to all my problems, apparently they are bringing a new one out called v5000 something but i don't know if it is going to be compatible or not.
 
Hi Youngie, just out of interest, what did you want my make and model for?? as i've not heard back from you ??
 
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