It's now close to 10:30 PM and as usual the issue seems to have cleared up (for the moment) and my connection speeds are pretty normal now. Here's the additional info I gathered though.... Something I noticed is that my modem was rebooted TWICE tonight and both times I was not home so it's not me.
left again and when I came back I saw more in my modems log
UPTIME: 4m:13s (so my modem was just rebooted yet again)
event log:
Time Not Established
Critical (3)
No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established
Warning (5)
DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response ;CM-MAC=74:56:12:1c:d9:cd;CMTS-MAC=00:14:f1:eb:1d:b4;CM-QOS=1.0;CM-VER=3.0;
Time Not Established
Warning (5)
ToD request sent - No Response received;CM-MAC=74:56:12:1c:d9:cd;CMTS-MAC=00:14:f1:eb:1d:b4;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Tue Feb 25 22:13:23 2014
Notice (6)
TLV-11 - unrecognized OID;CM-MAC=74:56:12:1c:d9:cd;CMTS-MAC=00:14:f1:eb:1d:b4;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
started ping to red.com at 10:14 PM
tracert red.com 10:15 PM
Tracing route to red.com [108.166.39.39]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 20 ms 8 ms 19 ms 10.53.0.1
2 9 ms 19 ms 92 ms 172.21.0.160
3 10 ms 56 ms 43 ms 70.169.77.248
4 28 ms 53 ms 33 ms chndsysc01-te-8-4.ph.ph.cox.net [70.169.72.201]
5 68 ms 53 ms 53 ms chgobprj01-ae2.0.rd.ch.cox.net [68.1.0.216]
6 63 ms 53 ms 55 ms bbr1.ord1.rackspace.NET [206.223.119.14]
7 65 ms 107 ms 55 ms coreb.ord1.rackspace.net [184.106.126.146]
8 89 ms 55 ms 56 ms core1-CoreB.ord1.rackspace.net [184.106.126.129]
9 145 ms 56 ms 54 ms aggr501a-2-core1.ord1.rackspace.net [184.106.126
.99]
10 133 ms 55 ms 55 ms 108.166.39.39
Trace complete.
testmy.net speed test at 10:17 PM
DL: 8.3
UL: 8.6
speakeasy.net speed test (LA server) at 10:20 PM
DL: 11.44
UL: 25.02
cox speed test at 10:21 PM
ping: 17ms
DL: 31.70
UL: 20.11
stopped ping to red.com
Ping statistics for 108.166.39.39:
Packets: Sent = 456, Received = 454, Lost = 2 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 54ms, Maximum = 268ms, Average = 72ms