Bizarre Internet problem

Every night, at some point, the Internet to my desktop and wife's laptop slows way, way down. Web pages plain do not load, although I continue to get Steam friend alerts, so I know there is a connection.

The weird part is, my iOS devices continue to work perfectly during this time.

The problem generally disappears in minutes with no action taken.

All devices are connected wirelessly to my Apple Airport Extreme which has a wired connection to my U-Verse modem/router (whose wireless connection is disabled). This setup has worked fine for over a year.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Windows update? Could be automatically downloading and installing patches.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Every night, at some point, the Internet to my desktop and wife's laptop slows way, way down. Web pages plain do not load, although I continue to get Steam friend alerts, so I know there is a connection.

The weird part is, my iOS devices continue to work perfectly during this time.

The problem generally disappears in minutes with no action taken.

All devices are connected wirelessly to my Apple Airport Extreme which has a wired connection to my U-Verse modem/router (whose wireless connection is disabled). This setup has worked fine for over a year.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ever heard of a little something called anti-competition? You should have, Apple patented it many years ago!

Spoiler:

No ideas, sorry!

Maybe try Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...) or TCPView (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...) during one of the slowdowns?

You could also try changing DNS servers on one of the PCs (so that it's querying a different set). This might show you if there's weirdness with your ISP's DNS servers. Another thing might be to do some traceroutes (traceroute -d to take name resolution of of the loop) to an IP out on the internet (eg: 8.8.8.8) while things are fine, and then repeat the process when the slowdowns / problems occur. See if you can localize the bottleneck.

I'm posting this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early, but it may have been interference from our video baby monitors. Moved them away from the office area, internet working like a champ for the moment. A key part of the diagnosis was moving my laptop elsewhere and discovering that it had great wireless reception over there.

That would make sense. Both the router and monitor system probably run at 2.4GHz. If you can change the channel on your monitor system, and set the router to it's opposite, that might fix the issue so you don't have to avoid those areas.