Bandwidth lowered again-->

[martin777]

These S.O.B,'s here at Cox/RR have lowered my bandwidth AGAIN from 3.2Mb to 3.0Mb down and from 300Kb to 256Kb up!
When will it end?

[blebs]

Originally posted by martin777
These S.O.B,'s here at Cox/RR have lowered my bandwidth AGAIN from 3.2Mb to 3.0Mb down and from 300Kb to 256Kb up!
When will it end?

When the monopoly ends!

I'm in the same boat and they just increased the fee too! I have no other choice except dial up. If it makes you feel any better, we are now down to 250KB/s and it appears 45KB/s up.

[oogs]

dang... that is brutal. even @home is better than that last situation (martin).

[martin777]

I reached level 2 tech. support and this guy said they can go as low as 2.5Mb down and 128Kb up and still be within their acceptable range.

[oogs]

128k up is murder - thats my upload. it took 13 hours to transfer a DivX movie to a friend... like omg. before i was capped, it took a couple hours tops - i even had an ftp server up and running.

btw, my bandwidth is 'officially' rated at 1.5Mbits, yet i get 2Mbits and above... thnx for the poatches!

[blebs]

Originally posted by martin777
I reached level 2 tech. support and this guy said they can go as low as 2.5Mb down and 128Kb up and still be within their acceptable range.

Did they bother to tell you what YOUR limits are set at?

TWC won't even tell me that!

[martin777]

I have a SB3100 modem and I can goHERE and see what my modem settings(like min/max bitrates) are. That's the main reason I elected to buy this modem from RR for 10 bucks a month(for 12 months).

[blebs]

With the Toshiba PCX1100, I have no way to check!
Your a lucky dude.
Out of curiosity, what did your diagnostics reveal for speed settings?

[TeenInternetAddict]

I have Cox Roadrunner in Topeka, Kansas, and my download speeds went from 3500 to 5000 mbps down/500 to 764 kbps up to 3000 mbps down/256 kbps up, too! I don't know why they did this. I don't have very much alternatives except for adsl and 56K dialup. Wireless isn't even available in Topeka, and probably won't be So, I'm stuck with this monopolized service until something better gets here... Pings on 3 mbps line are between 50 to 70ms, 10ms to my gateway, and 10-30ms to local servers. I wish there was something faster available, but it's not, so I'm stuck with Cox Roadrunner..

It won't end until the cable companies aren't monopolies anymore, and offer some real services such as cable tv, cable modem, telephone service, etc

TeenInternetAddict

[martin777]

That's what my modem settings are. Neat-huh?
Wish I could "tweak" those numbers a bit.

[DaveM]

A lot of us @Home customers are capped at 1.28Mbit/sec down and 128Kbit/sec upload.

You can test for your speed caps by uploading or downloading to/from a fast ftp server and simultaneously running a traceroute.

If your pings go to 500ms and above during file transfers then you've hit your speed cap!!!

We didnt have a cap for the first year I lived here and we were always 6.5 mbit/sec download and 1.6 mbit/sec upload. I woke up one day and the caps were installed and there was nothing I could do about it.
AT&T claims that 1.2 Mbit/sec download is within there acceptable download speed rate.

Be ready to be crippled like the rest of us, someday.

BTW...... Do you really think that for 35 dollars a month 5 times the speed of a dial up service on upload is really all that bad?

Think about it it. a T1 line could cost you 700 dollars a month, and with all these dot com companies that failed, I don't see cheap super speed internet coming too soon.

[aagiants]

for sum people Broadband is cheaper then Dial-up and a Phone Line. Phoneline goes to around 20$$ and sume ISPs have 20$$ service.

[wee96]

"A lot of us @Home customers are capped at 1.28Mbit/sec down and 128Kbit/sec upload. "

Not true. @home (if your within a "capped" area) uses 3mbps/128kbps.

[blebs]

I wish I could see a diagnostic page for this modem!

Hey TWC how about it? If you won't tell me, at least let me see for myself!

Thanks for posting your results Martin777