Pzykotic
join:2002-06-27
Somerville, MA
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Re: [Connectivity] Horrible slowness at night -Somerville, MA
I made sure to turn off any data transfer while doing speed tests, but didn't bother for the levels tests on rcn.net. If there was any overlap, it wasn't significant enough to cause the massive downstream slowdowns I see.
I just performed a speedtest on my home PC, no one in the 3-unit apartment building is home right now (and none of them except me have RCN), and this is the result at 4 PM with no traffic on my local network:
That's about the fastest I've ever seen, and is still almost 5mbps too slow on the downstream side.
It will get worse and worse as the day goes on, once people get home from their 9-5 jobs/school (at least that's what it seems like).
I'll post again at around 8 or 9 PM with new data, and a realtime bandwidth graph from my router to show the speedtest being the only data transfer.
I work from noon until 8 PM, so I only ever see my RCN connection at its absolute slowest, and it's really annoying. Like I said, I was excited to get RCN back after leaving Medford and Comcast, but this is a huge downside.
Edit: I'll be doing the speedtests on my Windows PC running the latest Flash, Java and Firefox, connected via Gigabit ethernet to a D-Link Gig-E switch, which is connected to my WRT54GL router running Tomato Firmware, which is connected to my D-Link DCM-202 cable modem. All with new ethernet and coax cable, and the router/switch throughput tested to be working properly. |
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