Is my diagnosis correct?

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Since the weekend my connection has been suffering increasingly bad packet-loss. At first I put it down to external problems but as it seemed to be getting worse I did a few checks with odd results.

Traceroute is showing packet loss on every hop!
Same results using a different ISP.

Thinking that I may have messed up my firewall I did the same check without it...same results so it isn't the firewall.

Running ping from my gateway to the ISP's gateway is showing 60-70% packet-loss.
Same result using a different ISP.

Checked the gateway for processes that shouldn't be running and found nothing. Checked for processes that should be running but aren't...all seems normal.

Found a couple of (not very meaningful) error messages in the log from the ISDN card driver.

My conclusion is the ISDN card is in it's death throes.

Luckily my ADSL line is being installed tomorrow (assuming all goes well) so it doesn't really matter but I am interested to find the cause.

What do you think fellow Linux geeks?

 

[bids]

Does sound like the card m8 ;(

Have you tried the ISDN provider - to check the line from you to exchange ? (BT - 154 ?).

 

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Originally posted by bids
[Have you tried the ISDN provider - to check the line from you to exchange ? (BT - 154 ?). [/B]

No, but if the ADSL install fails I guess I will have to!

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye sounds like the card indeed.
if you're the inquisitive type, you could indeed have the line checked but as the dsl is getting connected tomorrow anyway I'd say kludge it

 

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Sod the ISDN card, ADSL is here!!!!!

 

[Testin da Cable]

yay