I've been struggling with my Internet connection for the past month. It is very unstable at the moment -- I will receive, on average, less than 40% of the packets sent to me. I've had my ISP's network technicians out here and we have checked the lines, the hardware, software, etc. We've replaced my cable modem, my router (three times), and even my gigabit switch.
The current setup is:
1. My home PC
2. My wife's home PC
3. Our living room PC
All wired into a gigabit switch (made by Netgear). The switch then feeds cables through the walls to the room containing our cable modem and router. The modem (Motorola SB4161) is plugged directly into the router (Netgear R7000). The router is plugged into the switch and an additional PC. It serves, on the 2.4 ghz band, our Roku in the bedroom and whatever miscellaneous b/g/n devices we have. Our 5 Ghz band serves my wife's laptop, our iphones, our ipads, and my nVidia Shield.
As long as our NAS (homebuilt, running OMV 1.1) is unplugged, the system works flawlessly. We get full speed, no dropped connections, no DNS resolving errors, etc.
As soon as the NAS is plugged in, however, it all goes to scheisse. I don't think I ever set up a static IP address in Linux, but I did have an IP address reserved via MAC address on my router. I have cleared that, rebooted the router, etc., but somehow, the NAS still picks up the old IP address (192.168.1.192). What setting did I mistakenly bork in OMV that is causing all of these issues?
Or is it something more nefarious, like my ISP can see the fact that I stream what I assume is quite a bit of media from my NAS to my various devices, including iPhones/iPads when we're out and about but still want to have access to our movie/TV collection, and they're getting upset about the bandwidth usage?