Connectivity problems

[Fotoguy]

Hi

My current problem with my dsl connection is that it seems to bog down anywhere between 5 seconds to 10 seconds at a time. Ill be going from site to site and at one site everything displays on the screen very quickly. Then the next site either times out or if it loads it takes it a min or two to load. I can click refresh a couple times and then the site will load ok.

My dsl is through bellsouth and ive got 3 computers and a xbox linked into bellsouth's 2wire modem/router. My modem is directly connected to an outside wire that bellsouth brought in due to some problems I was having several months ago. I had them back out last week concerning the new problem and everything checks out ok, they said if its not disconnecting then its the network we have set up.

I was told several months back that the main computers hard drive was too full and that could cause some problems. I was hoping that was the problem and bought an external HD to transfer alot of files over but to no help.

Hope someone here might have some insight on why my connection slows/bogs down. Thanks for any help.


Another thing ive noticed that may help solve the problem, I game on the pc and once connected to the game the game itself never has any lag problems. So I cant understand why I dont get booted from the game while at the same time I get these timed out errors.

[Sumanji]

Does the router have a log page by any chance? If it does you can check them for any errors corresponding to the time of your problems...

[Fotoguy]

Yes it does, but from what I can tell everything looks ok.