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GearheadX
join:2010-05-11
Hilliard, FL

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Re: [Troubles] Random slow speeds, very dramatic drop, modem reb

You, like a great many of us, live in an oversold market. I wish I could give you some good news about it, but at the moment I really can't.

Some people on this forum have been dealing with this problem for years. Others for months. A sizable chunk of us have been dealing with moving goalpost repair dates for ages.

In my own, personal experience, I was supposed to get a fix 'by the end of the year' according to information I got in late October. Now I'm waiting until 'Late February' for resolution. Some have been getting this sort of thing for a year or two now.

What has happened is there are likely too many people on your local Windstream equipment. When this happens, the hardware simply runs out off bandwidth to provide customers and gives EVERYONE bad service.

My advice? Get with your neighbors. Find out who is using Windstream. As a group, file reports with Windstream that there are problems. Will it get results? I have no idea. But the more people who are having problems that they are aware of being aware of problems, the better off you are.
jetskee
join:2013-01-02
Newark, OH

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Click for full size
My crude graph
But, my question is, if there are too many people trying to get on, and everyone is experiencing slowdowns, why does a reboot "fix" it?
Why is it not a gradual degrading of speed, or a sustained slowness for a long period of time. Why is it so abrupt?

Literally, I can be at 6mp all evening. Then within a 30 second window, drop to 0.5mb, I reboot my modem (which takes 45 seconds to come back up) and less than one minute later I'll be cruising at 6mb again, maybe for an hour, maybe 3 hours, maybe 15 minutes...
who knows. Then repeat the process again.

Capacity and usage statistics for network traffic generally follow a nice curve on a graph....mine would instead be a sustained rate with
periodic vertical dips for 1 minute.

See my attached crude drawing....the top is what I would expect on an oversubscribed circuit....as the night goes on, the amount of available bandwidth per customer drops at a somewhat predictable rate, and as peak time passes by, your speed increases as customers drop off the network.

Mine is more like the bottom graph, which does not make sense
at all if there is a bandwidth shortage being suffered by everyone.

Windstream
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join:2009-03-31
Twinsburg, OH

Windstream

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Typically if there was to many people on the equipment the speeds would decrease slowly as more people logged on, also it would start earlier than the times you describe. Your issue sounds like some sort of physical issue in the Central Office or Remote you draw your signal from. Possibly a grounding issue that might be allowing cross-talk or magnetic coupling to interfere with your signal.

Aaron
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jetskee
join:2013-01-02
Newark, OH

jetskee

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PM Sent! Thanks!

Windstream
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join:2009-03-31
Twinsburg, OH

Windstream

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I will look into it right away.

Aaron