DSL_Steve
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join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
4 edits | [anyone else ?] Where did 150k of my bandwidth go?
[1500/256 Service]
Ever since the Meriden scheduled maintenance in ~April (?) and the major CT outage fiasco my speeds have gone from consistent 1280-1300/219 to consistent ~1140/210. If I reboot my modem/router I'll get ~1200/210 for a day or two then it goes back to ~1140/210. This happens on two PCs that have had nothing changed (both PCs already tweaked in our Broadband Tweaks Forum).
Line packet loss tests for both PCs are always very good: Typical: »/quality/nil/1411402
And to be consistent, I always do my speed tests in the early AM at one server...the SBC NY, NY server: [ »speedtest-nycmny.nycmny.sbcgloba···ge2.html ] |
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orion940
Paralyzed By Confusion
Premium
join:2001-12-23
Windsor, CT
1 edit | Re: [anyone else ?] Where did 150k of my bandwidth
only 150? hehehe...
I've been whining all along since the day after Meridan... I went from consistant 1280 down to 800, 900, 1000, ..... Erattic.
O.
Im not as good as I once was, but as good as I was once. |
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DSL_Steve
Premium
join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
1 edit |  This morning at 5:30AM mine was ~1010/210 for three speed tests at SBC Yahoo NY, NY. Rebooted the modem and it went back to ~1150/210....still 150k down from what I used to get.
My guess is SBC is *borrowing* bandwidth from us to supplement new accounts that their infrastructure equipment really can't handle. After-all, there's no guarantee of the bandwidth we buy. Anything between 384 and 1500 meets their *legal* obligation.
Do the math...when SBC takes 150K from each subscriber, that a lot of bandwidth for new customers without having to buy any new hardware at their COs. Another reason to switch to cable. |
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MrFixitSC
Premium,VIP,ExMod 2001-06
join:2000-12-01
Moncks Corner, SC | hahaha, good guess though incorrect.. since rebooting the modem seems to clear whatever is slowing it down that kinda disproves the theory, doesn't it..
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meskinct
Mad Scientist at Work
Premium
join:2002-01-07
Danbury, CT
clubs: | reply to DSL_Steve
Ok, I confess, I stole it! |
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DSL_Steve
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join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
3 edits | reply to MrFixitSC
said by MrFixitSC  :
hahaha, good guess though incorrect.. since rebooting the modem seems to clear whatever is slowing it down that kinda disproves the theory, doesn't it..
Rebooting the modem got my *~1150/210* (problem) speed back (if you reread my posts). Not the 1300/219 that I used to have.
And I stand by my statement of SBC *borrowing* bandwidth from customers to accomodate new bandwidth requirements for new customers that they can't support. Look at my line tests, they're close to perfect and always have been that way. |
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MrFixitSC
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join:2000-12-01
Moncks Corner, SC | ok |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | reply to DSL_Steve
Are you the one where we thought is was a switch from Redback to Bras? |
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DSL_Steve
Premium
join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
| said by Maxo :
Are you the one where we thought is was a switch from Redback to Bras?
????
I think we need an interpreter. |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | I'll take that as a no. |
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DSL_Steve
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join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT | reply to DSL_Steve
Re: [anyone else ?] Where did 150k of my bandwidth go?
I'm not the only one with the same symptom...
»Speed issues |
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DSL_Steve
Premium
join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
1 edit | Just got home and did a few speed tests at SBC Yahoo NY, NY. Its getting worse: 1036/211.
»support.sbcglobal.net/cgi-bin/sp···obal.net
This is on a line that got 1300/219 every single day for the last 6 months (length of service). |
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Phantom 2
On no he can't
Premium
join:2002-05-13 | You're gettin more than I'm gettin... |
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DSL_Steve
Premium
join:2003-11-28
Woodbury, CT
2 edits | said by Phantom 2 :
You're gettin more than I'm gettin...
Yeh, but its anoying as hell when you used to get the max speed (1300/219) for 6 months.:(
I guess the *new* DSL/TCP-IP overhead is now 30%:(
[So lets see, where did I put that Charter phone number...] |
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Nightwing
Premium
join:2002-04-08
CT | reply to DSL_Steve
1298/329. Pretty close to what I usually get. I'm glad they're not stealing bandwidth from my part of the state.;) |
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MrFixitSC
Premium,VIP,ExMod 2001-06
join:2000-12-01
Moncks Corner, SC
1 edit | reply to DSL_Steve
nm |
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swiftymc
join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
| Ever since about a week after this strike deal....ive been missing about 100kb/s off my download speeds....and my upload seems ok tho
router/modem reset...cache cleared...the whole 9 yards w/e u can think of i did...
i called SBC and they didnt seem to give a shyt |
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orion940
Paralyzed By Confusion
Premium
join:2001-12-23
Windsor, CT
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| reply to DSL_Steve
Re: [anyone else ?] Where did 150k of my bandwidth
Yo SBC Folks Working the Forum,
How do we tell if we're on a redback or bras? Both DSL_Steve and I (along with others) have been b*tching about the same thing since the Meridan outage. Maybe a switch was made and that's the cause??
I know we all have a tendancy to go on about stuff, Lord knows I do, but this speed stuff is getting old. Either we're not going to get the speed back that we saw CONSISTANTLY, or there's a problem that needs to be resolved to get it back. Either way, someone from SBC really needs to say one way or the other.
If the folks working the forum from SBC aren't at liberty to say or don't know what to say, all well and good. Who can say? Evidently, if folks call into the tech support number, as long as you're getting 384, no one does care. I have seen other threads in other forums where folks are talking about the same thing. Everyone can't be reading line tests wrong, everyone can't be having hardware problems in or outside the house.
This kind of stuff might not lose customers right away but it will in the long run. There are two reasons I haven't switched from SBC: 1) contract issues and 2) no viable alternative.
O.
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swiftymc
join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
| Idk whats been up....but for some reason...after a recent outage...my hostmask got switched from snet.com to adsl.snet.com
Thats when my speeds dropped to like 56k
but then i reset the modem and got back on the normal host..and my speeds are a lil better
something is certainly screwed up at SBC |
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Dell User
Premium
join:2002-01-21
Waterford, CT
| reply to orion940
said by orion940 :
How do we tell if we're on a redback or bras?
It should be the last hop before your address on the line quality test
»/linequality |
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