| [CenturyTel] How long will it last this go-a-round? Here we go again! During the past several years, This problem would occur about every 3 months during and evening hours only. Now it's about all day and night. I'm in the Troy, MO area, Is anybody else having the same issues? It's always lightcore too! |
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| I'm not in Troy but I'm north of there and it's slow only at night. |
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| reply to fishheadz
I have been living in Troy for 5 years and I have had steady speeds day and night. I live in a newer subdivision which has newer lines than other parts of the Troy area. I am not sure if this has anything to do with your problem. I hope it gets corrected soon. |
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| I'm having the exact same issue with high latency on the lightcore.net hop. My service point is in Lake St. Louis.
This started last weekend, and my typical pings have jumped from 20-40ms to 100-500ms. Latency is very poor throughout the day/night.
I'm really disappointed because I just renewed my contract for the next year. I've had numerous services issues in the past, but everything was working great for the past few months until this popped up.
The service techs have been extremely helpful and friendly. I wish I could say the same the front line CSR's (to be fair, a couple reps were pleasant to talk with, but others have hung up on me for no reason). |
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| reply to fishheadz
At my location in Wentzville we have been seeing the same sort of crap for a couple of weeks now. During evening hours, we experience a five-fold increase in ping times at Hop 4, host.lightcore.net. (I've resorted to running PingPlotter full time to keep an eye on it). Last night, at exactly 11:00 p.m., performance went back to daytime normal, as if someone threw a switch. Can this be intentional, a way to increase the "capacity" of that overloaded node in the network, so it doesn't crash completely? |
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| You can see the nighttime crapola starting now, just after 4 p.m. At the point shown here it is just about half-way to where I expect it will end up and hold steady - at about 125 ms. Normal daytime latency is 25 ms., which you see to the left of this graph. |
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I noticed latency starting last weekend as could not use xbox live or skype. I'm use to the typical 6-9pm slowdown here and there, But now it's more consistantly bad for a longer time each day. It may be good during the day, but I'm not using it during that time. I know it was bad around the clock last Saturday, Sunday. |
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| Can hardly believe it, and don't want to jinx it, but performance during evening hours has been tremendously better for the last 3 or 4 nights. Virtually indistinguishable from the mid-day hours. Clearly someone has done SOMETHING! |
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| It is all good here too! Knock on wood! |
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| reply to fishheadz
Unfortunately I have in the not so recent past shared your pain.
Down here in central MO (Jeff City/Rolla region) for the last 9 months the ping times are exactly what you are experiencing during the evening hours: making VoIP and gaming plain awful. Others in the area experience the same. Even though I did not want to, I bit the bullet and switched to cable (who use a different backbone clearly): paying $20 more for the same speed I had before. Sadly for me, it's money well spent to not have to deal with the network issues.
I hope they do eventually work the kinks out, but I probably won't return as a customer since the new pricing plans and killing of the real naked DSL flat out stink. |
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| reply to fishheadz
It sucks again! It is almost impossible to just hop around on the net. The bottleneck is at lightcore shack again, 5th hop for me. |
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| reply to fishheadz
I am also suddenly having issues during peak hours again. My DL speeds are fine, but my ping from Houston, TX to Dallas, TX is usually more than 600ms from 8pm to 11pm local time. I really hope they get whatever it is that they are screwing up fixed, it makes online gaming impossible with such high ping. |
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