US Cable Support > RCN > [Speed] Bethlehem slow internet at peak hours

and it is still happening every night.. right now it is at 17 mbps and it has been all night since 5.. it is 10:12.. will update at midnight

Same issues here and I'm on 75Mbps as well and I'm also Freemansburg/Bethlehem.
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reply to steverweaver
I am getting slow speeds still now between 5 and 1130.. just did another test and it is at 14 mbps

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Its now 1 am.. and i am now getting 38 mbps.. could this be that there are too many customers in my area? I thought this was fixed with docsis 3.0

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now it is 1:23 and i just got 67 mbps.. What could be causing this?

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But why is this happening now? It just started 2 weeks ago and I would think it would only effect it little by little.. I consistently got 75 Mbps every day.. Then all of a sudden.. I get 2-10.. Which is completely unusable

Wow your power levels are pretty high, -12 to +12 is what RCN recommends (-6 to +6 is real world "good"), so +14 is really out of spec. Do you notice when your speed is faster/slower if those signal levels change at all?
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CHECK YOUR FSLC TAXES!!!

they don't change at all.. they have been that way since the cable was run.. even when i had 75 mbps every day it was like that

Re: [Speed] Bethlehem slow internet at peak hours

For some reason this happens during the winter. Over the past few years it seems like internet speeds come to a crawl. I don't know why either.
I normally don't measure my speeds off the speedtests either as I think the burst speed throws it off. I pay for a giganews account and normally watch the speeds while downloading from their servers. Most of the time I'm in the mid 60s. Like you, I'm only seeing at most in the 20s now. All my signals are in the green per the speed test page.
For giggles I just ran speedtest.net and got 21Mbps down/9Mbps Up.

So it seems like all with all the area posts, the entire Lehigh Valley is having speed issues. What is going on RCN?

this is absolutely ridiculous.. I am getting 2 mbps and under right now at 830.. all i want to do is play a stinking video game and it is lagging all over the place.. this is unacceptable.

stever, can you repost your encoded... the first one seems to be missing either the front or the back.
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Bryan Laird
RCN Engineering

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Hey Jackal, Just so I can keep these organized here sometimes it's hard to follow when threads are joined and easy to miss. Wanted to make sure you know that I wasn't ignoring you. So your issue isn't the same As Mul's it's something else. But to be honest right now we're not entirely sure where the problem lies. I have a theory but nothing concrete and I had to get some second opinions on this. But 'm not ignoring you.
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Bryan Laird
RCN Engineering

OK thanks. I know a while back (a year or so ago) I was having the same type of speed issues. I think you said you "moved me", whatever that means.
I'll keep an eye on it tonight/tomorrow, etc.