Laggingamer
join:2008-09-30
Somerville, MA
1 edit | reply to Pzykotic
Re: [Connectivity] Horrible slowness at night -Somerville, MA
Absolutely awesome news.
I can't wait to be able to play a game online without disconnecting every 10 minutes, because my DL speed is at 0.28 ...
Just one question, are we to expect service interruptions during the scheduled maintenance? |
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lilhurricane
Crunchin' For Cures
Premium,Mod
join:2003-01-11
Purple Zone
clubs: 
 ·Comcast
Host:
TV over IP
Software
RCN
Inside Insight
Team Discovery
1 edit | reply to Pzykotic
Look like an update was posted
»Network Status
---shows this:
22-Oct-08 Maintenance for Sommerville MA Cable Modem Customers
»status.rcn.com/index.cgi?qtype=r···tid=4321 |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA | reply to Pzykotic
Current speed: 7.67mbit down
Love the news about maintenance, hopefully my speed test in 24 hours will be much faster  |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA
| reply to Pzykotic
Internet was down between 1 AM and 3 AM last night, and I just ran a speed test and my downstream is almost the exact same as last night's (7.5mbit).
I assume this will take more than one night to fix, but here's hoping it does SOMETHING soon |
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avacon
@rcn.com
| So far so good. I was on-hold for 20 mins last night at 2am to figure out why that they were having an outage (there was no notification ahead of time of the planned maintenence).
However, at least latency has been fairly stable tonight:
»meepity.net/mrtg/gaia_latency.html
Things have been stable even during the previously bad times of the evening. If this continues, the capacity expansion may have helped at least in my part of Somerville. |
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Laggingamer
join:2008-09-30
Somerville, MA
| reply to Pzykotic
I agree, i have The megamodem Mach7, and even though i am not getting the full 7 mbps (which is to be expected during peak hours, i guess), last night i was getting a steady 5.5 mbps with 15ms latency, which is great, a week ago i would be getting 0.32 mpbs with 320ms latency.
Keep up the good work. |
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boble88
join:2001-12-20
Somerville, MA | reply to Pzykotic
Last night my download speeds tested on the RCN site were higher. I also noticed that on the RCN test site the forward frequency has changed.
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA | reply to Pzykotic
The ticket on the RCN status page was closed today - once I get home I'll do a test when speed is usually the worst and hopefully it'll be 20mbit finally! |
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jmirabella
Joe Mirabella
Premium,VIP
join:2003-10-20
Lanham, MD
clubs: | the status post being closed just means that maintenance for that night is complete. there may be more I dont know the schedule of the sommerville upgrades.
-joe |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA | reply to Pzykotic
That's good to hear, since I just did a factory reset of my modem (for good measure) and was unfortunately left with the same speed as before I reset:
= 4.47 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Bring on the upgrades! |
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rcnman
Jason Nealis
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-02
Herndon, VA | reply to Pzykotic
There are multiple MTC's scheduled to provide relief to Sommerville, I will get a updated schedule / timeline tomorrow.
--
Jason Nealis,
Sr. Director, Video Product and Network Operations |
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rcnman
Jason Nealis
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-02
Herndon, VA | I'm told as of this morning the final configs were put in place and the augments are pretty much wrapped up. |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA | So.... that's it?
Because:
= 8.22 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
That's not an improvement, nor is it 20mbit. |
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boble88
join:2001-12-20
Somerville, MA
·RCN CABLE
| reply to Pzykotic
Download #1
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 7.17 seconds (7172 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2156.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.16 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 17248.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 17.25 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Download #2
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 6.83 seconds (6828 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2265.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.27 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 18120.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 18.12 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Download #3
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 6.98 seconds (6984 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2214.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.21 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 17712.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 17.71 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Download #4
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 7.03 seconds (7031 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2200.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.2 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 17600.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 17.6 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Download #5
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 6.89 seconds (6891 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2244.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.24 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 17952.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 17.95 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Download #6
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 6.78 seconds (6781 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2281.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.28 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 18248.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 18.25 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
Your Modem Mac 00:1c:ea:c1:5c:7a Your IP
Forward Frequency 735000000 Return Frequency 24816000
Forward Modulation qam256(4) Modem TX Power 32 dBmV
Foward Signal to Noise 36.1 dB Downstream Ratelimit 22000000
Forward Power Level -0.9 dBmV Upstream Ratelimit 2200000
Not bad for a Friday night and this is with Kaspersky Internet Security Suite running. |
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boble88
join:2001-12-20
Somerville, MA
·RCN CABLE
| reply to Pzykotic
Kaspersky disabled,
Download #9
------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken : 6.33 seconds (6328 milliseconds)
Throughput : 2444.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 2.44 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 19552.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 19.55 Mbps [Megabit-per-second] |
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RC
@rcn.com
| reply to Pzykotic
Just chiming in with my personal experience in the matter; I hate to say it, but my own speeds seem to have ~worsened~ since the work mentioned that was done on the 22nd. I don't have any precise numbers, but my connection in the evening has regularly been hanging up all this week. But tonight I'm getting flat-out disconnected every 15 minutes or so. This could simply have to do with Saturday traffic, but I sincerely hope they haven't "closed" our issue, as it's obviously still there.
To be honest, it seems as though this 1-2 week long persistent disconnect happens every 4 months or so, ever since I joined RCN in the Somerville area two years ago. And then the net is fine and dandy until the next overload. |
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Upgrade
@rcn.com |  Im in Somerville since last tuesday my connection has been nerfed. On friday as well as today i have no upload and my speed is down 75% Last night it was working within the 20mb range.
Any one know whats the persistent problem is? |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA
1 edit | I'm having the same problem, although no disconnections. Speeds haven't improved for me at all - still around 2-6mbit at night and I don't think I've ever actually seen close to 20mbit in my 2 months here. I've done a factory reset of the modem to clear out set frequencies and such, and reset my router and made sure everything was working well - no go.
What could our problem be now?
Edit: Ok, so I just got disconnected, and I'm speed testing at .95mbit. Ouch.
How could my problems have gotten WORSE since the upgrades?! Arrrghhh! |
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Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA | reply to Pzykotic
This is just AWFUL:
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rcnman
Jason Nealis
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-02
Herndon, VA | I'm looking into it |
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