Somehow my Alcatel Speedtocuh Pro modem slowed down day after day.
Each day there was a drop of about 200kbps
A soft reboot of the modem did not solve the problem.
Only when i did a hardware reboot the modem switched back to 2000 kbps.
It looked to me that the problem was in the modem, so I tried several other
modems.
They somehow seemed to be unstable with disconnecting after minutes of within
24 hours the most.
After a while I figured that the problem may not be in the modem, but in the
network card in the IPCop router/
The card was a Realtek card with RTL8139D chip, a few years old.
I replaced it by a new Realtek card with the same RTL8139D chip.
The card is slightly shorter than the old model.
Since the new network card the speed is stable now.

It looks like a hardware reboot of the modem somehow also resets the network
card.
Anyway, I tell this story for other people who may experience similar
seemingly inexplicable drops in modem speed.

-- 
John Zoetebier
http://www.transparent.co.nz
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