[ale] [OT] Comcast

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. Last April comcast began in earnest to promote their business
connections. I would not be surprised if they have basically saturated their
bandwidth during the day with business customers and are throttling back
residential to support the higher-fee customers.

<end general mistrust of all things comcast>

Double check your cable connection at the pole to verify the inner conductor
is the proper length. As the black cable warms in the sun, it can sag more
and change the bandwidth of the connection by pulling the inner connector
out a tad.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com> wrote:

> So, I have been using comcast for about 4 years.  I have never had an
> issue with them.  I have been getting good download rates up and down
> and downtime hasn't been an issue.
>
> However, the past few weeks I have been experiencing really weird
> issues.  During the day I get really really low up/download rates.
> Really low meaning *most* of the time I never get a page to load.
> During the night though my download rate has been much better.  I am
> getting about 5000 kbps.  It is not as good as it used to be though
> which was about 15000 often times (using speakeasy speedtest).
>
> I thought this might have been my cable modem at first but I am
> beginning to suspect something else.  Anyone else experience something
> like this before?
>
> Thanks for your input everyone!
>
> Robert
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