fiaranch
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Weston, CO
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March 22nd, @03:29PM
| reply to DarwinsCE
Re: [General] Alltel slow in the evening
It is a rock and a hard place kinda' thing.
You can absolutely do as Max Signal suggests and try driving toward a different tower to see if it is a tower specific problem. But, if speeds are good during the day, and crappy at night, there is little doubt that you have just been introduced to standard over-subscription algorithms on an "unlimited" internet service.
The rock and the hard place is:
1)If speeds are good "most" of the time, Alltel probably isn't going to beef up the back-haul to the tower that serves you. The business case won't support it.
2) The more that folks start calling and complaining about speed drops, the more tick marks that Alltel adds to the tally sheet that tells them it is time to end the "unlimited" service and institute a bandwidth limitation policy. Yup, that good old "Fair Access Policy" that most every carrier except Alltel already has in place.
I feel rocks and hard places.....
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