Cable Sucks

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 11:23 am

My download speeds have been sufferin lately. I called my cable ISP and asked if they have received any other complaints, he said yes they have. No wonder @home went into the ****ter. Ever since they filed for Chapter 11, my speeds have been affected. None of these patches seem to work for me anymore. I even tried a signal amplifier as a last resort and that doesn't work. I then called twice to my ISP and asked to send out a technician to come and looka ere at my setup. They never called back for an appointment. I called a few days later and said I would cancel this POS dial up cable crap of they don't send a dude over right away, still no calls back. Can anyone recommend DSL, and has anyone encountered problems like I have with their DSL providers? I am flippin sick and tired of cable and all the packet loss I have gotten. My download speeds are now slower than my 300 baud Hayes Commodore 64 modem I use to have. CABLE SUCKS!!!!

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 11:48 am

WIN XP, who sent you your copy and no Microsoft is not the answer, if it's warez, 6 days , get out checkbook

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 12:21 pm

Sorry Lobbos, it is from MS. Nah more pipe 4U. Ya gotta know the right people. Care to see Blackcomb as well??Oh, and yes, umm, well, ya see, CABLE STILL SUCKS!!!!

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 12:29 pm

Microsoft never shipped XP so I'm afraid you copy is_______________

Cable rules

funky · Post by **funky** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 3:07 pm

I don't think they really care about the customers now that they are bankrupt.. right?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 6:06 pm

Get AOL DSL, great stuff and sounds

tweak101 · Post by **tweak101** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:39 am

Yep, I think ever since the bankruptcy deal they have. My speed lags like **** man. I called them and asked if they can send someone out to test my line signal. They said that I have to pay $50 for that cuz it's extra. Damn, this sucks bad.

Also I tried everything as you did but still no go. To be honest, I really missed my 550+ KB/s download speed

I tried to look for DSL and nope I can only get qualified for IDSL only which is equivalent to ISDN 144 kbps down and 144 kbps up. Not good. So for now just have to hang with Cable dude.

funky · Post by **funky** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 2:06 am

Wait until the server change is done, then you should expect to have your speed back.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 2:16 am

Your crappy speeds have nothing...I repeat, nothing to do with @home filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If Excite@home were to burn to the ground in the morning, your speeds would still remain the same. Your local cable company provides your service or "connectivity", while @home is your ISP. If @home went down, you'd lose email but not your connection. In any case, all the local cable providers have and have had plans in place to deal with such an outage. AT&T has been bailing out @home as of late. They just made an agreement with them to help @home resume new cable installs.

The bottom line is this; you're crappy speeds are the result of hardware problems on your local cable providers end or configuration problems on yours.

Why don't you post some tracert and ping results so we can get hardcore with your problem.

If you are getting packet loss and are a digital cable tv subscriber, you can check the signal to noise ratio yourself right on your damn tv!!!

BTW...I'm on comcast@home and my speeds are fine.

int0x6h · Post by **int0x6h** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 3:15 am

from now on uod2001 is my hero!
I would have said it but I dont like to put up with little b@stards thinking they know everything. Excite@Home owns the domain, ok. Your IP address comes from your ISP, ie: mine being Shaw Cable... MY CABLE COMPANY, some people are retarded eh uod2001?

-int0x6h

funky · Post by **funky** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 3:19 am

Originally posted by int0x6h
from now on uod2001 is my hero!
I would have said it but I dont like to put up with little b@stards thinking they know everything. Excite@Home owns the domain, ok. Your IP address comes from your ISP, ie: mine being Shaw Cable... MY CABLE COMPANY, some people are retarded eh uod2001?

-int0x6h

If you are here to attack people, than please leave. As of right now, you haven't offered significant reasons to attribute to the conversation, or the topic at hand, if you will.

funky · Post by **funky** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 3:20 am

Originally posted by uod2001
Your crappy speeds have nothing...I repeat, nothing to do with @home filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If Excite@home were to burn to the ground in the morning, your speeds would still remain the same. Your local cable company provides your service or "connectivity", while @home is your ISP.

You know what ISP stands for, so your above sentence doesn't really make sense.

tweak101 · Post by **tweak101** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 1:50 pm

I think the other guy is a bit over temper man. I agree with you Crispy.

There's nothing wrong with my hardware. I used all the brandname ****s like Best Data Cable Modem and I bought that **** for $200. My Ethernet is 3COM, and my computer is pretty damn fast with 1.0 GHz CPU and 1.0 GB of RAM. With cablenut adjuster installed and tried all the RWINs but getting no where. So tell me is it my hardware??

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Oct 21, 2001 5:56 pm

tweak101,

Please click in my signature where it says Test tweak here, then:
At top where it says edit click and select, Select all,
Then go back to same edit button at top, click and select copy.
Come back to Speedguide, same thread you were on, in post reply box, with cursor blinking at begining of box go to top, edit, click, select paste, click, this will put information in box. Please X out your IP address, Thank you.

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