| I'm not using a router. My modem is a Motorola Surfboard 5120. Before I upgraded my Surfboard 4101 to this one, I couldn't get above 5 megs. That's why I started this thread in the first place.
I had the 4101 for about 4 years since the Charter Cable days, but it always worked fine as they raised the speeds. Just for some reason when they went from 5 megs to 8 megs, the 4101 couldn't do it. I still don't understand why it wouldn't go above 5, (my only guess is firmware or something), all I know is that when I got home from exchanging the 4101 for the 5120 and plugged the 5120 in, it was BLAZING.
In the five years or so since I've had cable Internet in Christiansburg, first through Charter, then Suddenlink, and now Jet, my speeds have always been right at, or more than they should be. However, I've been living at the same location in Christiansburg that whole time as well, so maybe there's just not a whole lot of people on my node. My neighborhood is kind of off by itself. Who knows.
But, before I lived in Christiansburg I lived in Blacksburg at Foxridge. I don't know if you're familiar with Foxridge, but it's a HUGE apartment complex filled with mostly Virginia Tech students. Back then, Adelphia provided cable TV and Internet to Blacksburg. At that time, the top speed they offered was 1.5 megs which I was signed up for. Anytime the students were in town it was lucky to hit 500Kb. Most of the time is was more like 300. As soon as the students left for holidays or breaks, my speeds went to 1.5 like they should have been. Obviously the node and entire service in Blacksburg was oversold and too crowded.
Looking at what you posted the signal to noise ratio which would be the main culprit in slow speeds AFIK, looks good. Based on what I know, anything over 30 is good. Below 30 and you start to see packet loss. I'd say your problems are most likely what you talked about earlier and what I experienced in Blacksburg overcrowded nodes. |
