exseven
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-23
Beamsville, ON
| reply to Anon
Re: Pre-sign up questions
said by Fireblade  :Oh wait, didn't you know Tek Savvy's 200GB plan uses peer1 peering for excellent latency? just wanted to point this out...
3 * 9 ms 9 ms 26-0-226-24.cgocable.net [24.226.0.26]
4 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms qix-tor-gw.peer1.net [69.28.230.245]
5 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms 10ge.xe-0-0-0.tor-1yg-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.1
14.133] |
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chdude3
join:2003-07-29
Oakville, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
 ·Cogeco Voip
| said by exseven :said by Fireblade :Oh wait, didn't you know Tek Savvy's 200GB plan uses peer1 peering for excellent latency? just wanted to point this out... 3 * 9 ms 9 ms 26-0-226-24.cgocable.net [24.226.0.26] 4 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms qix-tor-gw.peer1.net [69.28.230.245] 5 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms 10ge.xe-0-0-0.tor-1yg-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.1 14.133] WOW... how much is that plan?? |
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exseven
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-23
Beamsville, ON | ?
i was just saying cogeco uses peer1 as well, among others |
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exseven
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-23
Beamsville, ON
2 edits | said by exseven :? i was just saying cogeco uses peer1 as well, among others And thats a good thing, looks like TekSavvy only uses peer1 (and maybe torix), but houses their equipment in one place for a single point of failure
»TekSavvy Down (EDIT: Now back online) |
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chdude3
join:2003-07-29
Oakville, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Cogeco Voip
| said by exseven :said by exseven :? i was just saying cogeco uses peer1 as well, among others And thats a good thing, looks like TekSavvy only uses peer1 (and maybe torix), but houses their equipment in one place for a single point of failure » TekSavvy Down (EDIT: Now back online) Well my internet service is up, but I can't seem to get to Cogeco's POP servers or their selfcare site (I need to pay the piper). As of late, Cogeco doesn't have a lot to trumpet about uptime or great service. |
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exseven
Premium,VIP
join:2003-05-23
Beamsville, ON | maybe its just you
$ telnet pop.cogeco.net 110
Trying 216.221.81.110...
Connected to pop.cogeco.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK rpopd fep9 POP3 server ready |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| reply to chdude3
said by chdude3 :Well my internet service is up, but I can't seem to get to Cogeco's POP servers or their selfcare site (I need to pay the piper). As of late, Cogeco doesn't have a lot to trumpet about uptime or great service. Sounds like you're blowing your own horn, because I'm able to pop my emails and access self care. Both were accessible yesterday, as I helped someone else set up both. No complaints from anyone today, and I'm sure we would have heard if it was more than just you. |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Vonage
| reply to exseven
said by exseven :said by exseven :? i was just saying cogeco uses peer1 as well, among others And thats a good thing, looks like TekSavvy only uses peer1 (and maybe torix), but houses their equipment in one place for a single point of failure » TekSavvy Down (EDIT: Now back online) Small risk, it happens, Cogeco doesn't have a perfect track record itself. All of their equipment was fine, the fire was started by a UPS. At least when DSL goes down, you can use a different login from another company.
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chdude3
join:2003-07-29
Oakville, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Cogeco Voip
| reply to urbanriot
said by urbanriot :Sounds like you're blowing your own horn, because I'm able to pop my emails and access self care. Both were accessible yesterday, as I helped someone else set up both. No complaints from anyone today, and I'm sure we would have heard if it was more than just you. Maybe it was just me or a short local issue, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm noticing a decrease in the quality of Cogeco's service in the face of UBB and price increases. For what Cogeco charges for internet, it is terrible value. |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON | I've also noticed a slight degrade in quality over the month but it could be because my router is acting up, I haven't really gone after the issue.
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| said by Fireblade :I've also noticed a slight degrade in quality over the month but it could be because my router is acting up, I haven't really gone after the issue. Could you be more specific? I'd be happy to entertain any diagnostics on my end that might isolate a Cogeco-wide issue. |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Vonage
| Slow browsing on some websites, but once they load they seem to be decent for a few minutes. I'll see a blank screen for a few seconds and then the page will load, it's usually instant, loads in ms'. It was a terrible combination with Firefox 3.5, it seemed to really amplify the problem.
Usenet fluctuation between .600-1.1 MB/Sec, doesn't happen every time.
It's not happening right now at all, I get great browsing and usenet speed. The fact that it isn't constant, kind of points the blame slightly more towards Cogeco - but because it feels to me like a DNS issue, something my routers firmware screwed up last month or so point the blame right back at the router. Like I said, there is zero indication that it's occurring now.
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Vonage
1 edit | reply to urbanriot
said by urbanriot :said by Fireblade :I've also noticed a slight degrade in quality over the month but it could be because my router is acting up, I haven't really gone after the issue. Could you be more specific? I'd be happy to entertain any diagnostics on my end that might isolate a Cogeco-wide issue. It's back, was completely fine yesterday. Going to do a direct modem connection to rule out the router.
EDIT: Just as I thought, router is the culprit.
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON | Custom firmware? I was using DD-WRT mini on a Linksys WRT54G 2.1 until I got sick of a) various bugs and b) lousy performance during intense bandwidth periods. Since replacing it with a VM'd FreeBSD pf router / firewall I haven't looked back. |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·Vonage
| said by urbanriot :Custom firmware? I was using DD-WRT mini on a Linksys WRT54G 2.1 until I got sick of a) various bugs and b) lousy performance during intense bandwidth periods. Since replacing it with a VM'd FreeBSD pf router / firewall I haven't looked back. Nope, not custom firmware just poorly designed garbage that cannot be downgraded.
DIR655 has over 4 revisions, each revision has something major done to it and I think Rev. A4 has a different CPU and D-Link designs firmware around the newest revision and really doesn't do that much testing on older versions. If 1.31 was downgradeable, we wouldn't be having this discussion because it would go back to perfectly stable 1.11B.
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