chemaupr
join:2005-06-06
Alexandria, VA
| [VA] What the H*** is going on in fairfax?
Third day with speeds below 2mpbs. A LOT of lag while playing Xbox live in early evening...
I have seen a few other post in the fairfax county area with similar issues. Call and they just do the silly troubleshoot my 9 year old can do herself... |
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hegel21
join:2008-11-22
Herndon, VA
| I was one of the posters on the other threads. Speedtest this morning was a healthy 10mbps and netflix was giving me a "highest quality" stream. Tonight I'm down to a pathetic .6 mbps on most speedtests and "basic" (i.e. worst) quality on netflix.
The old adage has always been that cable gets slow during peak times. This has never been my experience. But now I'm really starting to wonder.
Will continue to monitor. Maybe Cox has finally hit the tipping point on its networks? FiOS is coming to our neighborhood soon ... perhaps it will be an option. |
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Innertrode
join:2005-02-05
Williamsburg, VA | This is not just NoVa, as I am in Williamsburg and am experiencing this same slow speeds. I was getting 10+ mbs early this morning, now I am get .5mb this evening.
Ugh!!! |
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nmlobo
join:2002-11-02
Yorktown, VA
 ·Cox HSI
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Same here in Yorktown. Strange I can get 13M very late at night or very early in the morning. Seems we not only don't get the new HD Channels but do get to enjoy the overloaded nodes! |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
 ·Speakeasy
| reply to chemaupr
Likewise mine have been pretty gawdawful. And the above was only after I was even able to connect to speedtest.net to test. There was a period where things had come to a stop such that I wasn't getting anywhere
Given that I normally have +22Mbps up and 2-4Mbps down, those numbers are teh sux0rz. It seems that, the real problem is the upload drops to effectively zero.
During the droughts, I'll see pretty much zero inbound traffic or ACKs of the outbounds.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell |
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jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
1 edit | reply to chemaupr
Looks to me like the issue just got solved minutes ago. I'm seeing normal routing to speakeasy.net (dc) and full speeds now. Just 10 minutes ago it was still broken and DL speeds to that site were less than 2 Mbit / sec.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
- Albert Einstein
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thecybernerd
Premium
join:2007-01-05
Great Falls, VA | reply to chemaupr
Everything is working well for me now.....woohooo!!!!!!!!! |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| said by thecybernerd  :Everything is working well for me now.....woohooo!!!!!!!!! Speeds are still blowful, here. Can't even get speedtest.net to give me a report on the upload and download's down to 8Mbps.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell |
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jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
1 edit | Speedtest.net is still fine for me.
Speakeasy.net (dc)... OK Too:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 26109 kbps (3263.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1791 kbps (223.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
- Albert Einstein
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CoxTech1
VIP
join:2002-04-25
Chesapeake, VA | FYI, and outage has just been posted for this issue. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| said by CoxTech1 :FYI, and outage has just been posted for this issue. Cool. Won't be an issue, either way, for a few days. We've gone out of town for the holidays. 
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell |
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CoxTOC1
join:2007-05-15
Newport News, VA
| reply to chemaupr
FYI Guys we have discovered that speakeasy.net (Who hosts the speedtest.net sites) has been having issues over the last few days with their east coast testing servers. Currently the only speed/latency issues we are seeing are with sites that traverse the speakeasy network out of the DC area. They (speakeasy.net) are already aware of the issue and are working to resolve this issue. |
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jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
| Thanks for the update. Although I didn't do a lot of digging, it clearly appeared to me that the issues were fairly confined, as I was not seeing slow speeds to most internet targets I was accessing.
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."- Albert Einstein |
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hegel21b
@ucia.gov | Not sure I'd call it "confined" but it is heartening to hear that someone has identified the problem, b/c my connection has been teh suck for days now. |
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CoxTOC1
join:2007-05-15
Newport News, VA | hegel21b you could be having other problems. If you could register and PM me you modems MAC address I'll look into it for you. |
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nmlobo
join:2002-11-02
Yorktown, VA
·Cox HSI
1 edit | reply to CoxTOC1
They must be having the same problem through NC as well
I tried going through both DC and NC (I'm about in the middle from them) and get the same
I believe it is an overloaded node problem since late at night and early in the mornings I will avg. ~13M down. |
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CoxTOC1
join:2007-05-15
Newport News, VA | Correct all east coast testing servers are effected by this issue. |
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nmlobo
join:2002-11-02
Yorktown, VA
·Cox HSI
| Its not just speakeasy - - this must be Cox since I get nearly the same results from wugnet and testmy.net. The JLabNDT server reports about the same.
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 1.42Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 3.74Mb/s
The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a 10 Mbps Ethernet subnet
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link |
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DrThodt_
@cox.net | 10mbps is 10mbps whether its fiber or ethernet. 10mbps isn't squat for a routing link. Especially if you're trying to run a speedtest |
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CoxTOC1
join:2007-05-15
Newport News, VA
| reply to nmlobo
Well seeing that the testmy.net servers are located in Downtown Dallas Texas I am not to surprised that they are showing a slower speed. As for the other two I am not failure with them so I rely can't comment on the accuracy of their test's. If you want you can PM me your modems MAC address and I look into from this side and see if their are any other issues. |
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