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Re: charter 20 meg release dates don't be too surprised. Charter didn't actually add any network capacity to accomodate the 20mb rollout, all they did was release a new provisioning config that tells your modem it can try for 20megs instead of 16 now. But all it really does it offer to let each of us 20mb users a bigger piece of the same pie. by that I mean the same shared bandwidth infrastructure is in place, they're just letting you use more of it at any given time. But when everyone else is also using their own piece of the pie, each person gets smaller portions. At 3am you'll probably get max speeds. At 6PM, you probably won't. That's the way Cable works, unfortunately. |
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| Matt,
Actually I believe there are some routing issues in the southeast. Not disagreeing with you, but some of us have other issues beyond "sharing the pipe" at this time. I'm in TN and get my best speed tests to Chicago. My speeds through Atlanta are abysmal. They used to not be this way. Something has changed in the last few weeks. |
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| said by dogmanky:Matt, Actually I believe there are some routing issues in the southeast. Not disagreeing with you, but some of us have other issues beyond "sharing the pipe" at this time. I'm in TN and get my best speed tests to Chicago. My speeds through Atlanta are abysmal. They used to not be this way. Something has changed in the last few weeks. That may very well be. I just know in my area (socal), most of that kind of stuff is worked out, it's just my neighbors using up our shared bandwidth. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to dogmanky
said by dogmanky:Matt, Actually I believe there are some routing issues in the southeast. Not disagreeing with you, but some of us have other issues beyond "sharing the pipe" at this time. I'm in TN and get my best speed tests to Chicago. My speeds through Atlanta are abysmal. They used to not be this way. Something has changed in the last few weeks. yes I find using the Chicago speedtest from speedtest.net produces the best results instead of the "recommended" server. And Atlanta does suck.
however the best results come from here »speedtest.chartertn.net. which is what you should use living in TN. |
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| Just got upgraded to 20 meg here in Birmingham
20068 down
2052 up |
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I ran the speedtest.charter.com several times and best I got was 8.7/1.5
umatter2charter is looking into it.
edit: I managed to get 1 20mb result hitting the west TN charter server after several tries. Otherwise, all tests are 16MB at best. Hopefully it will get better. If not, then 16MB is still smokin' for residential service. |
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Man.. I hit a wall at 15mb. I have tried different speed tests for two days and cannot get over 15. I have changed cables, removed router and just about everything I can think of. I guess it could be my modem, but the 5100 should support this.
Like someone else said.. it seems the 20mb is the new 16mb for me.
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| 5100 is that a surfboard also what area do you live in. I have a Ambit running DDWRT v24 on WRT54GL |
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