My dad just got AT&T U-Verse. They are using the U-Verse box as the main router for wired and wireless devices. I believe in keeping that kind of TV traffic separate from everything and off my home network, but that's just me. My dad called me because I helped hook up their HP network printer and now it doesn't work reliably. Sometimes print jobs will come out garbled and other times it just sits there in the queue. I am thinking packets are getting lost somewhere or the U-Verse box is doing something crazy. Before I go buy them another router that can sit behind the U-Verse box for their local LAN, I'd like to prove that the U-Verse box is messing with the print jobs. The print server can be pinged and I can pull up the printer config page from any computer, wired or wireless. Plugging the print server into a desktop machine leads to flawless print jobs. It's the network that's the problem, but why and where?<div>
<br></div><div>Doing a network trace seems like a good idea, except I don't know much about network tracing just yet (still learning). Any quick and dirty tools for Ubuntu, etc that I can use? </div>