First, Ha! I was going to say man...daaamn. But also, do you know I actually knew someone who had to game on a really slow DSL line. He lived on some island off of Australia and his DSL has a cap of 150Kbps. Not dialup, but close enough. And all his traffic was routed through Korea. Guess how bad his lag was?
Yea, modem logs are temperamental. Alot of times the time and dates are wrong, they can not records some errors, lose logs, and many times scare you with important sounding errors that are usually quite normal. The only think you should really look out for are errors marked critical, if they are in abundant. And even then there are exceptions.
As for the DNS, yea, that happens sometimes. To be fair, .CN is adding and removing domains constantly. They are almost always on the top 10 on the charts. Aren't they like the China's FCC? China=Censorship so they keep the DNS people busy. I bet if you had waited a day or two it would have fixed itself. Looks like its in most name servers as of now.
And Furry is right, I doabt a modem problem would cause the router to reset. Now a modem problem might make the router "require" a reset, but thats different. And while I agree with Furry that a router is only as good as your ISP, try not to swing too far the other way and assume everything is your ISP too. ::grin:: If your seeing speed decrease during peak hours, that could just be the nature of the beast, so to speak. You can check your signal levels on the same page as your logs, and hope it might be signal fluxiation, that they can fix. If its the usage is peaking past capacity, not a whole lot they will do about that. Its like the highway. The traffic needs to be REALLLLY bad for the state to consider putting in another highway. With that said though, if you find the speed decrease/increase to be related to usage in your area, you could look into getting a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. You should research thoroughly before doing so though. Some ISP have issues with DOCSIS 3.0, and some have issues with just particular modems or even firmware versions of certain modems. Your best bet is to try DSLReports, find your ISP and ask what they suggest. Last, before you upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0, make sure your signal levels are damn near perfect. With DOCSIS 2.0 you have alot more flexibility but as you start playing with channel bonding, different QAM modulations, and other systems that come into play with D3, things can get bad fast. Pay the most attention on your Upstream SNR, which you can get by calling your ISP. Should be as high as you can get it.
Blahh, I just blabbed a bunch of stuff. Hope you found some of it useful.
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