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Is Mountain starting to throttle newsgroups?

I haven't been downloading a lot lately but when i first got hooked up i remember pulling a solid 600KB/s when using their usenet. Then i remember shortly after they went to 6mbps my usenet speeds were kind of like yours but not as bad. Somewhere inbetween all of that there was the numerous problems usenetserver was experiencing with the Too Many Connection errors and bw problems.

With that said, I just loaded up about a GB worth of data and let it run for a bit and I am noticing some inconsistency but overall its not too bad.

Looks like it's 7 Mbps already...

Hasn't made its way over here yet.

Since its out there maybe by tomorrow morning my modem will have the new config.
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reply to FusionGuy
Mine's improved... not as much as i'd like.. but faster is still faster

Mine is absolutely terrible.





Could this be because we now have a 2nd phone line into the cable modem?

reply to FusionGuy
Good here now



Give it some time siouxie, if its still like that after a few days give them a call. But adding another phone line shouldn't effect your speeds.


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it's getting worse

That looks like a line or signal issue. Can you log into your modem and check the signal levels?
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Sorry have been away from forum for a while so.. signal levels - noise ratio is:

Signal to Noise Ratio: 41 dB

This has changed since we had the 2nd line installed - previously it was a lot lower.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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SNR is the decibel difference measured between the signal and noise below it

I.E. The bigger the number the better

Now we just need a recieve level and a transmit level.

I can't see that on the modem interface any idea where it might be? Thanks for the assistance!

What type/make/model of Modem are you using?? an Arris?

reply to siouxie
Try to type or click in »192.168.100.1/

Opps, I thought you didn't know how to view the diagnostics page.

reply to siouxie

said by siouxie:

I can't see that on the modem interface any idea where it might be? Thanks for the assistance!

Sorry for the delay in posting .. it's been a busy couple of weeks. Thanks Mike for the hint

RF Parameters
Downstream
Freq/Power: 111.000 MHz 8 dBmV
Signal to Noise Ratio: 41 dB
Modulation: QAM256

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Upstream
Freq/Power: 33.024 MHz 39 dBmV
Channel Type: DOCSIS 1.x (TDMA)

Symbol Rate: 2560 kSym/sec

Modulation: QAM16
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reply to FusionGuy


I am getting some good speeds.

reply to FusionGuy
yes I have noticed this and do think they are throttling newsgroups because as we speak its 9:13pm on a wednesday night and my newsgroup download is goin a wopping 114 KB/s where as in the summer at any givin time night, day wekknight/weekend I would average 700 KB/s so something is up

If u have the nzb i can test it out over here to see if im getting slow speeds as well.

reply to FusionGuy
No problems here at all.