Is Comcast fighting with my Antminers?

[the-skeptic]

I have miners at home and at my business: Four Antminer S1 and a October KNC Jupiter at home, and two Antminer S1 at work. Both locations are served by Comcast cable internet service, and at both locations I get my Antminers failing over from primary to the backup pool quite often, while the KNC only fails over about 1/2 as much, but it uses a different port than the Antminers on Eligius, my primary pool. It doesn't matter which of my pools I put as the primary and secondary, it seems to happen equally with BTCG, Eligius and Ghash (I prefer Eligius).

Has anyone else had a similar issue? The Antminers only use 6mb of data every 24 hours, so it's definitely not a bandwidth issue, and it really seems like Comcast is trying to throttle my bitcoin mining. I have had bad luck with miners plugged directly into the router/switch as well as connected via wifi. I've tried DHCP and static IPs without improvement.

Is there a decent piece of windows software that I can use to monitor the connection more closely so that I can contact Comcast and tell them exactly what is going on a specific times?

Thanks,

Dana

[jesse11]

Hey skeptic, Use TCPView, TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. You may download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

[Gator-hex]

Try pinging your pool address. The closer/faster it is the better it will work.

Check you really have the Ants in failover mode and not balanced mode!