http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20426556 en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:37:48 EDT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:37:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21153029 jellybean : I don't know if it's suddenlink or just distance.(i really don't know much about latency-pings-etc) But I just had suddenlink installed last week (09/12/08) and I have some files on a few sites I use and my DL speed was SPECTACULAR! I have the 8/512 plan. I downloaded a movie from my Adrive file site at 1200-1400Kbs-Dang fast compared to what I used to have.And now I lucky to be able to DL anything..I mean ANYTHING! Rapidshare-Adrive-File Factory-Stagevu. The best I average is 7-14Kbs at ANY givin time.Don't matter if it's 12AM-6A3PM-Any day of the week! I don't know if there cutting my speed or what but I expected something faster than the DSL I had In the "woods" where my DL speed was about 88-150 depending on the time and day. Something isn't right!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21153029 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:14:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21024518 SteveP75904 : I'm getting 80-140 kbps from rapidshare on the free download thing. looks like when it goes overseas my pings are higher, but thats expected. I don't see how it can be suddenlink when everything on SL's network is low ping and when it leaves it gets higher. Does rapidshare cap the free accounts?

1 ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21024518 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:12:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21010960 anon : In Dallas here and with AT&T DSL 3mbps down/768 up. I have been having problems with Rapidshare.com also in the last couple of weeks. Used to max out on speeds (which right now is 300kb/s). Now I am lucky if it goes above 50kb/s or 100kb/s and not slower. Anyone found out any issues on this thing yet?

Flandrel]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21010960 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:11:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21009976 anon : I find that at certain times of day (evening or wee hours) it's extremely fast, up to 1.5MB/s from Globalcrossing, then crawls down to 30KB/s during the daytime...A year ago was ~500KB/s all the time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21009976 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20940802 anon : I've got crapcast in Chicago and have noticed really slow d/ls for the past 2 weeks using Rapidshare. I consistantly get an average of 4 Mbps when I do a speed test. Somebody is yanking our chains.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20940802 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:41:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20931475 abnormal69 : Oh I'm sure it is not, it haaaas to be Suddenlink. Note the sarcasm.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20931475 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:50:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20931067 anon : i have comcast highspeed internet (would be like suddenlink only its the cable company in my area) they offer me a 6mbps line with a speed boost at up to 12mbps for the first 10MB of each file, and ive been getting download lower than when i had DSL from AT@T (at a 1.5mbps line) so it's likly to be somthing on rapidshares end.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20931067 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:18:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20926258 anon : Sometimes the problem is with rapidshare.com
I'm a premium member and half the time my download speeds are at around 200KB/s no matter which download server i choose, when i'm actually capable of 700KB/s. When using free downloads on other download sites like rapidshare.de, badongo, megaupload i reach top speeds. I feel i've wasted money joining. I wish people would abandon rapidshare.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20926258 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:05:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20892359 anon : Who r u referring to? You can contact me anytime on yahoo]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20892359 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:19:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20822521 abnormal69 : Who are these anon posters in this discussion? I would LOVE to talk to a couple of them. SL disconnecting you from AOL because of usage? And blaming Suddenlink for not being able to get to some torrent sites, but able to actually download torrents at great speeds? WTF are you smoking?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20822521 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:00:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20796193 stomp357 : I'm in the process of switching from AT&T 6/512 DSL to Suddenlink's 8/512 cable. I have both services right now (comparing before I switch). I am getting 55kb downloading that rapidshare file on both services. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20796193 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20794873 camaroz : Most of the rapidshare servers are in Germany, and are on an extremely saturated link. With a 15mbps(1.8MB/sec) time warner plan, using Rapidshare manager(and 5 connections), I still only average 80-120KB/sec per download on the fastest rapidshare servers I've found. If you have Random Server selection enabled at rapidshare, theres a good chance you'll download from one of their smaller providers, and only get 20-30KB/sec. Go into settings for your account, and make sure you select, Level3, Cogent, or Globalcrossing, under Server-systems, to be used all the time. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20794873 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:59:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20665308 anon : Looks fixed, Got 950kb/s from steam and my rapidshare D/Ls are back up to 400]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20665308 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:47:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20620131 anon : Working much better now. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20620131 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:18:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20606326 anon : Getting my full 8megs through Rapidshare again. Looks like it might be fixed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20606326 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:27:09 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20597253 anon : my rapidshare seems fixed for today]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20597253 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:13:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593839 anon : Correction here...good news...
It must of been a bum moment at Rapidshare while doing my AT&T test. I have a pitiful 1 meg connection tonight to test with on my first day with AT&T. I was able to get up to 153kb on Rapidshare later during the night. Hey, that beats the 2kb my 8 meg suddenlink was giving me for 2 months. My buddy on older SBC 3 meg got 165kb on the same file at the same time. I think we are still throttled some or the new Rapidshare interface is not quite fully up to par yet. My Verizon user does not show any slow down.
As for the AOl, this is 5 times in 2 months on 2 new computers. I was talking to 3 people, all on different internet providers when on my chat screen, a red message came up saying "I had exceeded my bandwidth and I will have to wait before sending." Well, I waited and waited. So I restarted AOL and got going again for a while before it would come back. I did not shut it down for bandwidth, I had to restart it in order to use it again since it was telling me to wait. None of the other fellows saw the screen and I had to copy and paste it for them to read. I have used AOL for 10 years and I have never seen that until the Suddenlink choke down. I do not know if the two are releated or not.
I am a Professional Gaming Computer Builder and my computers are very clean and new all of the time. Nothing wrong here. New computer, 6 day old cable modem, 2 week old new router, new Windows, not much left there folks. It does look like I might get by with AT&T on rapidshare if I can get them to come out and fix my speed. We have bad phone lines over here.
Unless there are any statements for me, this is about it. It is Suddenlink for the problem, and in case you did not know, Sprint and Verizon is watching this to see our reactions before joining in. My reaction is to cancel my Suddenlink account. That is the best message I can give them. Thanks for the Blog!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593839 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:52:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20592958 anon : Ok, now I am lost. I just dropped my 8 meg suddenlink for AT&T. Guess what, same old throttle down problem with Rapidshare. Anybody else see it with AT&T? Plus, my 3 meg internet is only showing 800kb. I will call them, but throttling down Rapidshare is not going to cut it. I do get twice the speed from Rapidshare. I went from 2kb to 4kb :-(.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20592958 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:53:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20591684 anon : It's finally better for NOW on my end. Getting 100-150 K while downloading 8 files each simultaneously.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20591684 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:39:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20581205 anon : I think it's contract with a private company so you are bound to their rules and guidelines.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20581205 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:28:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20580986 anon : I switched over to Suddenlink from AT&T Friday expecting faster downloads. I had a constant 192 KBs on Megaupload premium. On Suddenlink I get 0.00 to 25.0(mostly 0.00 to 3.5 KBS). I spent the weekend on the phone with tech support and Monday morning with the cable repair guy. I wound up buying a new modem to replace the new one I was using. No improvement at all. I spent another hour with tech support and no one ever mentioned throttling which they must be doing. Speed test shows I am getting over 5mbps,but what good is it if I can't access megaupload?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20580986 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:43:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578218 anon : speeds still 14-38 today]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578218 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:29:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20573496 anon : hi,

You do realize that closing and opening aol would not "reset" bandwidth usage IF? suddenlink is limiting it. Sounds like maybe something is wrong with your computer or perhaps something with aol? Your isp isn't going to send you messages telling you that you can't chat anymore. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20573496 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:17:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20573019 anon : I guess it is getting worse with Suddenlink. This has happened only once last month, but 3 times last night while using AOL chat with 2 buddies, I got a notice that I had used up too much whatever and I had to wait to chat anymore. I waited, gave up and had to close AOL and open it back up again in order to use it. Then I had to do that again 2 more times during a 1 hour chat session. Give me a break here, I was just typing. My buddies who use other providers said that they have never seen that screen before. I never have either until this choke down thing started. No Rapidshare, megaupload and now no AOL chat. I think I am going to change over to AT&T after looking at the deals with providers. I might get 6 meg internet out of them for less cost if they offer it in my town. Suddenlink has killed my computer for everything I use it for rendering it useless. Hey, I get great speed downloading an email. I guess that is about all they will let me do. As bad as it was, I sure do miss Cox over Suddenlink.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20573019 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:01:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570695 anon : yeah it's crazy that with another provider there is no problems and it only seems to be with suddenlink customers. I'm glad it's getting some attention finally. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I'm getting porn withdrawal.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570695 Sat, 31 May 2008 21:12:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570439 anon : Surprise, surpise, I actually got a tech who seemed to know what he was talking about. They told me that they have a running case open on this and are looking into it. The tech also acknowledged that he has had other calls about this issue.

I was told that they have been in contact with Rapidshare to try to fix this issue, but that they aren't sure what is causing it. I don't know whether to take this with a grain of salt, but I do know that if it doesn't get much better pretty soon, I'm probably going to look into AT&T DSL (They only other broadband available in my area).

I don't know if they'll work any faster, but at least it's been sent up to management.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570439 Sat, 31 May 2008 19:47:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570408 anon : I live in Canyon, Tx. I just called Suddenlink about this and got my issue escalated to a supervisor. We'll see how this goes.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20570408 Sat, 31 May 2008 19:39:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20568948 anon : Suddenlink called me to do a survey today. They recorded my comments. We'll what transpires from this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20568948 Sat, 31 May 2008 13:25:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20566090 anon : I think the contract reads that they are responsible for giving us internet access when ever we want. That is what we pay for. I do not see anything about them governing where we go online. They probably will not admit it until it becomes more public due to the old AOL lawsuit back in 1998. Then we all could sue them. I think they are over loaded and throttled back some of the Torrent sites to gain back space on their machines, rather than build new servers or put a satellite up in space. I do lose half of my 8 meg speed anytime I go overseas online to any web site. But I am only getting 2 and 3kb on Rapidshare rendering it useless. Nobody I know with any other internet provider is showing up with this problem. I guess it is time to change internet providers after 8 years.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20566090 Fri, 30 May 2008 20:20:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20562157 anon : Yes it's not getting any better. I wish suddenlink would give us a straight answer and look into this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20562157 Fri, 30 May 2008 06:54:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20561007 anon : I was not aware that an internet provider can tell us where or where not we can go online. Rapidshare is all I use the internet for. I spent 2 months trying to figure it out. I bought a new computer, new router, new cable modem as I worked on the problem. I even paid Suddenlink for faster internet. Now all of my work is useless since they choke it down to nothing and it times out or says 2 hours for a 90 meg file, rendering it useless. It smells like a lawsuit to in the making to me. I am also in Abilene.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20561007 Thu, 29 May 2008 22:30:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20555896 bullet087 : I have been downloading a few things from rapidshare at various times throughout the day, and I have never seen the speed drop below 500kbps for me (im on 8mbps package)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20555896 Thu, 29 May 2008 02:11:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20549251 anon : Abilene here and having the same issues with my rapidshare download speeds. Here at the house I get like 20-60kbs with suddenlink, yet I can head to my parents who have DSL, and get like 600kbs. Its Suddenlink, no matter what the asshat on the phone tells you. GD shame if you ask me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20549251 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:43:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20547776 anon : Hey tech support.. Can you help us at all with this?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20547776 Tue, 27 May 2008 18:24:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20531870 dfreeman : The latency doubles because that is a long hop from Washington DC to Paris, France. Rule of thumb on latency is 10ms per 1000 miles one way. Tracert reports round trip latency numbers.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20531870 Fri, 23 May 2008 22:36:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20529817 kyleroberson : The problem is Suddenlink. It had been fine for the past year, and I can get normal speeds on Verizon.

Don't expect them to fix this. The techs are completely unapologetic.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20529817 Fri, 23 May 2008 15:14:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20528127 anon : Update: As of 8 this morning I was pulling down normal speeds on rapidshare and MU. As of 8:40 my MU speed has dropped to 30kbs. RS is below 10 again. Seems like they start throttling it at around 8:30. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20528127 Fri, 23 May 2008 09:43:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527974 anon : Just an update, I tried rapidshare and megaupload this morning and was pulling down over 100kbs on RS and over 200 on MU. I wonder if they are only throttling it during peak hours?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527974 Fri, 23 May 2008 09:11:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527134 bullet087 : Running a rapidshare download now (taking advantage of their Happy Hours) and I am getting a constant ~400kbps (got other downloads from different sites running at this moment too)

I will try different times during the day the next few days to see if there is anything different.

But those of yall on the suddenlink backbone should take these tests with a grain of salt, as although I have suddenlink, tracerts show me to still be on the Cebridge backbone]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527134 Fri, 23 May 2008 01:06:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527061 anon : I am in abilene and I am having the same problem with suddenlink and rapidshare downloads. If anyone tries a new ISP let us know if the problem was suddenlink.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20527061 Fri, 23 May 2008 00:44:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20525662 anon : Midland here too. I get 10kbs MAX on rapidshare and not much better on megaupload. It has to be suddenlink. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20525662 Thu, 22 May 2008 19:51:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20502347 bullet087 : When I do a tracert, it also does slowdown when it goes from Washington to Paris]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20502347 Sun, 18 May 2008 15:56:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20485277 anon : Same speeds here in amarillo, tx. I can get 40 kbs late at night when I hold my tongue right. I got so used to over a meg at my school, this is going to kill me if it isnt changed soon. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20485277 Thu, 15 May 2008 02:25:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20479716 anon : well I'm glad someone is getting good speeds. Maybe I need to get a job with Suddenlink?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20479716 Wed, 14 May 2008 06:41:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474307 anon : Rapidshare can be used for multiple reasons. It is the best hosting place for family videos, which I do use rapidshare for. So, I should be throttled? Also, I logged a ticket with Suddenlink, the guy on the phone who was the main tech said he used Rapidshare, and had excellent download speeds.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474307 Tue, 13 May 2008 09:10:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20472740 anon : It still sucks here]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20472740 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:08:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20459808 anon : I have suddenlink here in midland, tx and for the past week or two my download speed for rapidshare and megaupload decreaced drastically. I might just have to switch ISP's if suddenlink doesnt fix this. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20459808 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:32:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20458337 anon : in canyon tx lucky to get 6 or 7 kb premium user for almost a year]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20458337 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:37:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20455370 anon : speeds appear to be back up this morning for now 200-400 KB/sec]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20455370 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:12:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20453312 anon : I to live in South West Louisiana; the Ft. Polk/Leesville/DeRidder area and I also can confirm that Sudden Link is slowing down access to sites like Rapidshare/Megaupload/ Torrent sites.

Torrents still download very fast but some of the more popular torrent sites load so slow that they time out and you can't get to the files so that you can see who is seeding what.

On a positive note I can download a 5 minute song in less than 5 seconds on I-tunes and if I'm on a legit site like twit.tv I can get download speeds of a megabyte to a megabyte and a half a second easily, especially after peak hours like in the late afternoon or late at night.

To make a long story short; if your purchasing stuff legally or the free stuff is being openly shared on the up and up, you can get some blazing speeds with Sudden Link considering the fact your out in the backwoods. If your looking to pirate content you might as well hang it up because Sudden Link is throttling with no mercy. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20453312 Thu, 08 May 2008 18:38:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452393 anon : Still slow overhere in S.W. Louisiana about 50 KB/sec]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452393 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:52:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20432048 kyleroberson : That's my story as well. I've had a premium account for the past year or so without problems.

This doesn't need a registry tweak, unless I'm missing the 'fix this awful tracert' key.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20432048 Sun, 04 May 2008 22:12:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431942 anon : Same 10kb/s speed here. Been that way for a couple weeks. Calling Suddenlink will not help since the customer service group have no control over what the head honchos at suddenlink decide to do.

GeorgetownTX,

It has to be Suddenlink. I have let others try out my rapid account that use other ISP's. They are having no issue getting a fast dl speed. I have used Rapidshare with Suddenlink for almost a year as a premium rapid user. I never had an issue with speed and could easily hit 500/600kbs+ each time. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431942 Sun, 04 May 2008 21:52:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431857 kyleroberson : Gave Suddenlink another call and asked to be escalated. This got me to a second level tech.

He said that they do not have any control over the routing of the site. If it's fast at one point and slow at another then that's just how it is. He restated that they are not filtering or limiting the transfer speeds.

I asked to be escalated again and he said that even the network admins would be unable to address this. I told him that this was a large enough concern that I would change providers and he said even that wasn't enough to make anyone take action.

I didn't feel brushed off. The answer was just unsatisfactory. I'll be giving Verizon a call tomorrow unless this magically fixes itself.

Feel free to give them a call and see if you can do any better.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431857 Sun, 04 May 2008 21:34:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431501 kyleroberson : Meh. I had 300kb/s this morning and now it's back to 15-30.

Guess I'll be calling Suddenlink after all.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20431501 Sun, 04 May 2008 19:59:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429483 anon : I am back at between 50 and 300...it is very erratic, but it is much faster than before.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429483 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:21:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429469 anon : well that didn't last very long.. back down to 30 KB/sec]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429469 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:17:15 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429302 anon : I'm getting about 300-350 KB/sec this Sunday morning up from 10 KB/sec. I'll let you know if it sustains.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429302 Sun, 04 May 2008 09:14:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429289 GeorgetownTX : I tried the download linked earlier in the thread and got around 4Mbit from my 8Mbit service. This was early Sunday morning so there shouldn't be a lot of congestion. I would say that is not bad for an overseas download.

When the latency is high because the server is far away (160ms when I tried it), your TCP window size comes into play. Some quick math says that to sustain 8Mbit (1MByte/sec) download with 160ms latency, you would need a TCP receive window size of 160KB (that much data in-flight). That is significantly higher than the default TCP window size in Windows XP. There are many articles online about adjusting your TcpWindowSize and associated settings. For window size of 160KB you would also need Tcp1323Opts enabled and SackOpts might help too.

I'm not saying your problem is not with suddenlink or level3, but make sure your client machine can suck that much data from high latency connection before blaming them.

Here's one good article on TcpWindowSize and associated registry settings: »speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429289 Sun, 04 May 2008 09:08:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429275 kyleroberson : Today is the first day that I've had a decent transfer speed since the Friday the 25th.

I'm back to ~200kb/s with a download manager. This is still down from 600, but at least it's not 10.

Please let me know if your results are similar.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429275 Sun, 04 May 2008 08:58:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429006 anon : I contacted them both as well, suddenlink said I had a bad signal and it was causing it (useless phone tech) they sent out a service person and he gave me a new cable, said I had great signal. Told him what the real issue was with rapidshare.com and he hadn't heard anything about it, but said he would ask about it in his monday meeting. He gave me his personal cell co call on monday to see what's going on. I also get the same speeds as you guys max 12kb. Also once my tracert hits the paris location it bogs down.. I will let you know what he says on monday.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429006 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:28:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428558 kyleroberson : Suddenlink told me that Rapidshare was performing slowly and that they hadn't capped it. I didn't bother to escalate it beyond a first level tech when I called, but I probably will when I'm off for the day on Monday.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428558 Sun, 04 May 2008 00:04:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428279 anon : I am also on sudden link and am getting SLOW speeds -- I will call tomorrow and ask if there is anything they can do. What is everyone else hearing?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428279 Sat, 03 May 2008 22:49:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20427078 anon : I hope soo.. been like this for a week.. I'm having withdrawals]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20427078 Sat, 03 May 2008 17:57:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20426718 kyleroberson : Zorack: Please post a tracert if you're still getting decent speed.

Hopefully this is just a temporary network issue.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20426718 Sat, 03 May 2008 16:24:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20426556 Zorack : I averaged 400k a sec downloading that file,no problem here.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20426556 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:45:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425638 anon : yeah it's definitely suddenlink.net because I gave my friend my account info and he can download at 150 KB/sec from at&t dsl

Any advice ops? Your help in the matter would be appreicated.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425638 Sat, 03 May 2008 12:01:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425627 anon : thanks for replying. They finally said they would make a request for the network specialist to look at it. I knew I was in trouble when the tech didn't even know what a bottleneck was.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425627 Sat, 03 May 2008 11:57:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20424186 anon : Same thing has happened to me... Your tracerp is exactly like mine was. Suddenlink says they have no cap, rapidshare says they are not the problem. When I called Suddenlink the first person said they have been getting this asked a lot lately regarding rapidshare.

I am lucky to get 10kb/s on a rapidshare dl (have been a premium member for over a year - this just started a week or so ago). Anywhere else I get 600kb/s and up.

Sorry I can't help but just wanted you to know there are other passengers in the boat.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20424186 Fri, 02 May 2008 23:46:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20422912 kyleroberson : Suddenlink is responsible for this, not Rapidshare. Megaupload speeds are also capped.

I could previously get 600kb down using a download manager and it seems to be capped at 50kb or so. It can dip to as low 10kb when they're feeling especially cruel.

I called their tech support and asked if the site had been throttled. They claim that they don't do this. I also asked if I have exceeded some type of bandwidth quota and I haven't.

I contacted Rapidshare and they said that it's the provider (Suddenlink). I can get the same file from Verizon at the speed that I previously got on Suddenlink. That seems pretty damning to me.

It seems like a silly reason to switch service providers but I'm probably going to unless I can get a resolution.

Here's a test file for you. It's pictures of cats if you're curious.
»rapidshare.com/files/107207259/L···zip.html]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20422912 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:51:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20419007 Araiden : Looks like to me that the latency is really high to those sites. Your latency doubles once you hit paris1.level3.net and stays around the same from there. I suspect those servers are overloaded.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20419007 Thu, 01 May 2008 23:05:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417901 anon : I'm having big problems and don't know enough to identify where my problem is. I can download anywhere else pretty good.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\virgil>cd c:\

c:\>ping rapidshare.com

Pinging rapidshare.com [195.122.131.13] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 195.122.131.13: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=49
Reply from 195.122.131.13: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=49
Reply from 195.122.131.13: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=49
Reply from 195.122.131.13: bytes=32 time=154ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 195.122.131.13:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 154ms, Maximum = 175ms, Average = 160ms

c:\>tracert rapidshare.com

Tracing route to rapidshare.com [195.122.131.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 15 ms 10 ms 15 ms r74-193-139-1.lkchcmta01.lkchla.by.dh.suddenlink
.net [74.193.139.1]
2 9 ms 11 ms 11 ms laftaggc01-fex0303.ma.dl.suddenlink.net [208.180
.48.121]
3 17 ms 17 ms 28 ms shvpbbrc01-gew0204.ma.dl.suddenlink.net [208.180
.197.81]
4 25 ms 18 ms 18 ms cdm-66-76-31-37.lfkn.suddenlink.net [66.76.31.37
]
5 21 ms 21 ms 35 ms cdm-66-76-31-34.lfkn.suddenlink.net [66.76.31.34
]
6 21 ms 33 ms 21 ms cdm-66-76-30-133.tylrtx.suddenlink.net [66.76.30
.133]
7 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms cdm-66-76-30-5.tylrtx.suddenlink.net [66.76.30.5
]
8 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms te-7-4.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.17]
9 23 ms 32 ms * vlan89.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.19.190]
10 34 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-83-83.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.136.161]

11 77 ms 73 ms 72 ms ae-7.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.134.22]
12 64 ms 71 ms 71 ms ae-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.86]
13 68 ms 67 ms 71 ms ae-81-81.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
38]
14 71 ms 70 ms 72 ms ae-82-82.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
53]
15 159 ms 160 ms 162 ms ae-44.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.137.61]
16 163 ms 161 ms 163 ms ae-2.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.132.142]
17 161 ms 154 ms 155 ms ae-13-55.car3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.118.14
5]
18 171 ms 156 ms 153 ms rapidshare.com [195.122.131.13]

Trace complete.

c:\> ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417901 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:53:55 EDT