How to diagnose network speed drops

Posted by Luis Alvarado on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Luis Alvarado
Published on 2013-07-02T03:36:43Z Indexed on 2013/07/02 5:13 UTC
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Here is the image of System Monitor first:

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The graph shows the cycle the connection goes through. After 10 to 15 seconds it drops to 0 KB/S, then goes up to the Max speed (120 KB/S) then it repeats.

dmesg shows the following during that time:

[ 6066.757211] wlan0: send auth to 00:26:5a:b5:05:7b (try 1/3)
[ 6066.804405] wlan0: authenticated
[ 6066.804578] rt2800pci 0000:02:01.0 wlan0: disabling HT/VHT due to WEP/TKIP use
[ 6066.805016] wlan0: associate with 00:26:5a:b5:05:7b (try 1/3)
[ 6066.809218] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:26:5a:b5:05:7b (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 6066.809581] wlan0: associated
[ 6066.810203] bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge on dev down
[ 6066.810239] bridge-eth0: down
[ 6066.810254] bridge-eth0: detached
[ 6066.810309] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1679 (vmnet-bridge)
[ 6066.810322] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 6066.810355] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
[ 6066.810366] bridge-wlan0: device is wireless, enabling SMAC
[ 6066.810369] bridge-wlan0: up
[ 6066.810372] bridge-wlan0: attached
[ 6067.010285] userif-2: sent link down event.
[ 6067.010290] userif-2: sent link up event.

This also repeats with Wired or Wireless connections. How can I diagnose this changes in the network efficiently.

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