Yes, I know this question has been asked before. Yes, I know and agree that performance is adequate with a 150 foot run of Cat 5, meant to be buried in the ground, but I have a unique wrinkle to the problem.

I've been having trouble lately with my VOIP phone through Google Voice using the old Obihai boxes. When I answer the phone, the handshake between the phone and Google doesn't seem to work well and I often can't answer the phone when it rings.

I tried the T-Mobile wireless internet and everything works just fine with a direct connection to the router and a short run of cable. This got me thinking that amplification of the signal might solve my problem with a repeater/amplifier of some sort?

What do you all think?

Long story short: packet loss and ping jitter on a LAN PC been a problem for a year now and ISP has no clue what to do or where to look.

• Router upgraded (2Gbps download)
• New CAT-7 cable installed
• Same issue appears on multiple devices and servers/tests
• Limiting bandwidth / turning off wifi completely doesn't help the issue
• Ping to router is always stable <1ms
• Ping to anything else permanently jitters no matter what
• Internet used to be flawless for 10 years, I've changed nothing on my end til this occured

One very interesting hint is that when I run waveform's bufferbloat test (which I always score D or F because I get +600ms download latency under load) and it finishes, the following 30 seconds my internet is literally perfect 0ms jitter but then returns to garbage.

I highly suspect the issue is in the ISP's infrastructure and cables outside of my house but I'm unsure how to confirm while they are taking their time on it :)

I will be infinitely grateful if anyone takes some time to help solve this because I'm genuinely curious what is causing it and I'm going insane.

Que pasaría.. si de un momento a otro el Internet empieza a fallar en todo el mundo, no solo unas horas si no que nos quedemos así bastante tiempo.. y por que no hay una película de "terror" de esto? O si la hay?

Interested?