Wow - what a helpful response. Thank you. So I have been playing around with things over the last week trying to pin down my problem. Right now I have a brand new airport express with default settings plugged into the surfboard and one computer connected to it via 5Ghz wifi. Same problems happening: works fine for a bit then everything gets choked up, generally after a lot of network traffic is happening.
Here's a ping to 8.8.8.8 during a period of it choking up:
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=1853.703 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=4857.091 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=2854.908 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=3856.024 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=855.117 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=46 time=951.458 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=262.873 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=46 time=1263.906 ms
Here's a traceroute:
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.087 ms 1.091 ms 1.385 ms
2 * * *
3 * * tge7-2.austtxk-er01.texas.rr.com (66.68.1.245) 3102.914 ms
4 tge0-11-0-8.austtxa-cr01.texas.rr.com (24.27.13.82) 18.002 ms 25.482 ms 22.500 ms
5 agg22.dllatxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com (24.175.41.46) 19.696 ms 23.425 ms 15.812 ms
6 ae-4-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.88) 20.850 ms 23.006 ms 24.075 ms
7 107.14.17.234 (107.14.17.234) 16.404 ms 16.377 ms 15.339 ms
8 74.125.48.65 (74.125.48.65) 62.360 ms 90.147 ms 63.274 ms
9 72.14.233.67 (72.14.233.67) 15.814 ms 19.638 ms 16.354 ms
10 72.14.237.217 (72.14.237.217) 17.516 ms 17.329 ms 18.501 ms
11 216.239.47.121 (216.239.47.121) 24.035 ms 34.666 ms 24.192 ms
12 216.239.46.61 (216.239.46.61) 23.184 ms 32.404 ms 30.130 ms
13 * * *
14 * google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 24.035 ms 26.205 ms
It can only be something up with my ISP, however calling them doesn't help. They inevitibly tell me to connect without the AE, and after a reset everything works fine (for a while). Sigh.
Something to do with my new DOSCIS 3.0 modem and associated 30Mbps connection?