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I can only speculate, but I suspect your router runs out of memory. ONce that happens, it no longer has the ability to either send or receive packets.
The likely reason is un acknowledged packets. TCP/IP requires that every packet be acknowleged, but it doesn't require it to happen immediately. At very high transmission rates such as FIOS provides, any delay in ackowledging a packet or delay in re-transmitting a packet may cause the router memory to fill up with subsequent packets, creating the proverbial Gordian knot. You cannot get rid of packets in memory because they haven't been acknowledged, but you cannot get any more acknowledgements, because there is no memory left in the router to receive them! I suspect this is a situation the router doesn't handle gracefully.
1mb of packet storage doesn't last long at 2.5 million bytes per second!
The only likely recovery is to reboot the router.
is un acknowledged packets. TCP/IP requires that every packet be acknowleged, but it doesn't require it to happen immediately. At very high transmission rates such as FIOS provides, any delay in ackowledging a packet or delay in re-transmitting a packet may cause the router memory to fill up with subsequent packets, creating the proverbial Gordian knot. You cannot get rid of packets in memory because they haven't been acknowledged, but you cannot get any more acknowledgements, because there is no memory left in the router to receive them! I suspect this is a situation the router doesn't handle gracefully. 1mb of packet storage doesn't last long at 2.5 million bytes per second! The only likely recovery is to reboot the router.- Mark as New
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I think netflix is stressing the router. I do think it is a memory problem only seen during heavy high speed access
It also can be corrupted packets on really high speed, causing no acks for those packets filling up the router.
I would try lowering the speed of your netflix computer/box to see if the problem stops occurring.
If it does, then you have a stressed line problem that only occurs when the line is close to saturated, which is a common problem with lines that are marginal, and would probably require a trouble ticket.
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You may also have a issue with fios itself, because you are streaming video you can see it where as if your just going to websites you will not see a network hiccup. I stream netflix all the time with no issues. I highly doubt it is a issue of the router running out of memory, because your router does not store what you are downloading, it is just routing on the packets of info onto the correct mac address that requested the info from the website., it does not buffer them.
What you can try to do is power cycle your router as after a prolong time being on they can cause issue with routing the info to the correct place.
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Well, thats what I said.
When you stress your line, it causes packet errors, that you don't see with normal use.
Try lowering your speed on your computer watching netflix. Not to get a good picture but to cause less line stress and
see if your problem goes away.
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