Modem troubleshooting

[dbrown]

Good Morning,
This is Dbrown again still with a sporatic yahoo loading.  I am beginning to think that it is with the Modem now.  I say this because when I disconnect and reconnect the modem yahoo will load quickly, but....after several browsings, yahoo will take several minutes to load a page or will not load at all.  So could it be the Modem?

[DaveLembke]

I'd create a persistant ping to a website and see if you have connectivity issues. Go to Start RUN, and enter CMD if 2000/xp/vista or COMMAND if 98 etc.

At the dos shell enter the following

ping www.yahoo.com -t

and you should see the following below until you press CTRL + C

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ping www.yahoo.com -t

Pinging www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [69.147.76.15] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 69.147.76.15:
    Packets: Sent = 9, Received = 9, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 36ms, Average = 26ms
Control-C
^C
C:\>

Response times should be good and no failed ping requests...the Reply from .... should keep going without error. If you see errors then you have a connectivity issue and it could be your modem or ISP carrier.

[dbrown]

Will do and thanks.  I'll let you know what happens