Please recommend tools for PC, browser, home network performance problems?

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Published on 2010-03-27T22:57:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 23:03 UTC
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My client is experiencing some odd response behavior in their browser for the past few days. Classic, "nothing has changed" so I am starting at ground zero. Browsing a website will timeout or take a ridiculous time to load -- other times, the same site and query is immediately responsive. Once a connection is established, video streams are uninterrupted.

The home network hosts a website, but it is not experiencing any activity in Apache's 'access.log'

I am using speedtest.net to check if the ISP through the internet is 'OK' -- which looks typical (average +/-). I have to suspect the home network is beaconing or something very abnormal, but I don't know where to start.

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