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Extremely slow upload speeds and stalls

I've noticed that for the last couple of weeks that speeds are really slow at times. ( K-W) There are times when Rogers is slower then a 14.4 baud modem and other times I can't connect at all

Mt speeds (at home) go from 10 mbs to 25mbs to 5mbs

Lucky me I'm in an area where I cannot get DSL.

reply to sbrook
I have been feeling the website browsing glitches here for a while now... It's not DNS i have changed various servers.

Often times I'll click on a link and get a time out, then click try again and it will load in a split second...

This is Rogers Business 12/1 in downtown Toronto, btw.
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Exact same problem I'm having... but this ONLY happens on HTTP traffic. HTTPS traffic and all other traffic forms (ESP packets, UDP etc) all work fine.

Makes me think Rogers transparent proxies are bogged down...

Also should note that this is only an issue during peak periods - problem starts to clear up around 11pm... which is why I think it's a load issue.

reply to SimplePanda
Rogers abandoned proxies back in Sep 2005 They couldn't manage the proxy farm adequately, and as they added more and more users they couldn't keep up with the size, speed and so on required. If I remember correctly the proxy farm was at YM so all traffic had to route via YM creating a huge load there and a major point of congestion. Many of us were really cheesed off with the proxy and disabled it long before since nothing actually loaded any faster, and then we'd get lots of out of date pages (when whoever wrote dynamic pages forgot to include instant expiry in the HTML. It was a real mess.

So, finally, halleluiah, they abandoned the farm.

There is definitely something up that is more or less only affecting HTTP traffic. Performance is fine over HTTPS and I can bypass all slowness and stalling by tunnelling.

For example, over an OpenSSL UDP VPN, I can sustain a solid down and upstream rate with no latency spikes to my data centre.

Over a 6in4 IPv6 tunnel to Hurricane Electric, I can sustain same.

Over HTTPS on standard IPv4, no issues.

It's really -only- HTTP that's slowing.

So Rogers is doing -something- to packets that are IPv4 port 80 and it appears they are currently having issues doing so.

reply to sbrook
Yup started at 7 pm tonight almost on the dot and it's impacting anything sending larger packets including https.

Small packets seem to go through without only small delays.

Latency to some locations is fine, but others is just a disaster. The most annoying things are the stalls and it's definitely not DNS causing this.

Yup, noticed exactly the same stuff here in Kanata yesterday and today was a bit better - it was beautiful on the weekend though ( »Speed upgrade? Almost.... ).
Perhaps this has something to do with Rogers turning on SpeedBoost (or whatever), giving each DOCSIS2 connection 25Mbps for the first few seconds and that is killing the network?

reply to sbrook
Horrible Night. Started around 6pm.

I can do speedtests and get a download rate of (14.3Mb / sec)
Upload Test (Failed to connect)

Trying to FTP images to my site. 128 KB image.
2 mins. 30 Images. 1 Hour to upload them all. Stalls out, reconnects, etc....

I am REEEEALLLY annoyed.

Having 1 server manage the connection and 3 pcs's behind it thought I would try directly connecting the PC's to the modem.
All 3. SLOOOOW.

Hope this is a temporary problem.

Not sure if this is related, but I've been getting pretty inconsistent (mostly poor) 3G speeds on my iPhone for the past couple of days on the Fido/Rogers network. 75% of the time I get 500Kbps-1Mbps speeds and sometimes it goes up to 2Mbps and up to 4.5Mbps once today.

The signal is good - I even tested right by the cell tower where I used to get ~5Mbps and now I got only 1.5Mbps, but I guess it could be another issue all together...

reply to sbrook
All quiet on the western front. Uploading at 200kB/s.

transfer aborted by user after transferring 5,046,272 bytes in 26 seconds

On Ultimate package, 25 minutes west of Ottawa.

reply to xgmranti
FYI Rogers called me back on this. Support vetted my line as not responsible for my issues and dumped it up to IT.

IT called back today to say "we are aware of this issue and our ticket is being folded into a master ticket. No ETA, sorry".

reply to pulp46

said by pulp46:

said by xgmranti:

All quiet on the western front. On Ultimate package, 25 minutes west of Ottawa.

Odd that Ted and/or SMC fixed us western country bumpkins first. Are you using your SMC only as a modem as myself, or as a wireless router combo?

reply to sbrook
I've started getting stalls here in London. Not sure if they were happening yesterday, but it's definitely happening today.
Just now my modem became unresponsive for a few minutes. Really annoying..

reply to sbrook
7pm and the stalls start all over again.

Nylon, Your issue is soemthing a little different.

reply to sbrook
Have been having the same problem here in Downtown Toronto for a few days. I recently upgraded my service from Extreme to Extreme Plus and had to change out my Motorola modem for the SMC modem. There is tremendous inconsistency and latency after 7pm.

Never had this issue with the Motorola. In fact did not have the issue on the SMC until Rogers pushed the new firmware onto it the day after I got it. Talked to Rogers tech. Level 1 is clueless as usual but did note down the problem and asked me to swap out the modem. I'll try that tomorrow.

Yeah, me too. I am in Downtown using Scientific Atlanta modem and experiencing the exact same issue (like a roller-coaster - slow, fast, slow, fast.....) In the evening after 7PM it's super slow with short blips of fast. I thought it was a virus and reformatted my XP machine Now it's brand new install and still slow. Something is wrong with Rogers network. May be we all got moved to that crappy Dupont hub by accident???