router being pinged??

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I have a netgear router attached to a motorola modem. The thing is, when my laptop is off and disconnected from the router, ther internet lights on both the modem and router keep blinking. Someone told me that my router is being pinged. I also noticed that loading of internet pages seem to lag for a few seconds or time out completely....and these are pages that I frequent often.

I have a few questions that hopefully someone can help answer for me:

1. Is my router being pinged bad? If so, how do I stop it?
2. Does my router being pinged cause slow loading pages?
3. Is Comcast capping my internet? 'cause I download quite a bit...
4. Or is the main problem my hard drive, which has 18% of free space?

[MrEvil]

My Motorola Surfboard does the same thing. It appears to be normal and has not affected my downloads or gaming. I think the lights are just stuck on blinking as no amount of power cycling and resetting my modem has stopped the behavior.

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thanks...but how come the pages I frequent load so slowly then?

[Yoob@NBF]

If you connect your modem directly do you still get poor connection? DO you use DSL or Cable to connect?

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I have cable dsl...but connecting directly to the modem, it doesn't seem to change...hmmm...maybe it's the page itself then...I do notice that some pages load and cpu usage goes to 100% when I scroll through the page. How would I remedy this problem?

[dlinkin]

1.) Your Modem may light up your router making it seem like your getting pinged.
2.) Being pinged doesn't slow you down.
3.) Tracert test would tell you if you have a bad route that's bottlenecking you.
Open command prompt. Type TRACERT YAHOO.COM
Change Yahoo.com for MSN.com etc, and see what you can see.
4.) Your main problem is probly your rwin size. Here's a tweak. Open the registry by going to; Start, Run, type REGEDIT
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Right click on Parameters are create a new Dword. Call it TcpWindowSize
The value is Decimal 14600
After setting this. Restart your PC and test here;
http://www.sea.speakeasy.net/

Thar registry tweak is for XP PC's.

[booga]

Your router should have the option to discard ping from WAN side.

But the blinking lights on the modem and router should not be a problem. Both devices are constantly checking if the other is alive.

Since you did say that without the router the slow problem exists. Check with your ISP to see if they can test the lines for you.

DSLREPORTS.COM has a speed test site.

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Thanks guys for all the help!