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Sounds like something is generating a lot of traffic, perhaps overloading your Internet connection. If it happens every five minutes, it seems to be scheduled. You might want to check your crontab entries for an automated speedtest.

To/from which hostname/ip-address are most of the packets during those 20 seconds? That might indicate which tool is doing the speed-tests.