Internet is dying - diagnostics

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2017, 09:47:28 CEST schrieb Colin Law:
> On 22 October 2017 at 09:29, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > desktop ~ $ traceroute 193.99.144.80
> > traceroute to 193.99.144.80 (193.99.144.80), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
> > 
> >  1  192.168.178.20 (192.168.178.20)  2747.404 ms !H  2747.386 ms !H 
> >  2747.376> 
> > ms !H
> > 
> > The IP belongs to heise.de. So it should be all right. The traceroute
> > command takes some 10 seconds. No more output.
> > 
> > Does this hint at a broken router?
> 
> Well 192.168.178.20 is your own address, so it doesn't get any further
> than that. So that suggests either your network card, the
> cable/connectors or the router.  

I think, it's the router. The connection was broken, just now, and I turned 
the router off/on. When the router's lights finished blinking, the connection 
was back.


> Are there other devices plugged into
> the router? 

My laptop and my smartphone, are "plugged in" over WLAN.

> if so then switch the connections for yourself and the
> other device 

You mean, interchange the two network cables? (I've got only one, but I also 
don't really understand.)

> (keep a note of where you started or you will get
> confused, or at least I would) and if you have a spare cable then
> switch cables (or swap the cable with another device). If it is still
> your PC that fails then that suggests the card in the PC. If you can
> open the PC up and disconnect the card from the mother board 

Networks cards are integrated in the motherboard, nowadays, aren't they? Can't 
be disconnected.

> and
> reconnect it, and do the same with the other end of the cable if you
> can, then if it is a poor connection that might well fix it.

Bye
V.W.