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First 2 weeks with Start....so far not impressed.

Can you post your speed test to different locations?

I will be very honest with you, but, very often i see that too.

I have multiple servers at different locations, and after 6 pm or so, i am unable to pull more then 5-10mbit from them (usually full speed) while speedtest shows (with speedboost) 60+mbps.

I think that i complained before about this, but, nobody even cared.

If majority is not complaining, then ............

Personally, i do not have much time as i used to have to spend at my pc, so, i am not able to monitor as i was before, so, not sure how often that is happening again.

Where about ur located? (City at least)

reply to Greenalderbe
Here's a few tests..

I see, so, exactly same issue i am talking about.

Well, i am "glad" that i am not the only one experiencing this.

Hopefully this time it will be looked in more.

Good luck! (for both of us and others with the same issue).

reply to Greenalderbe
Sorry to hear you're having problems. How is your Netflix connected and what type of device? During off peak does it maintain hd?

Re drugtito sorry if I missed your original issue, certainly not that we don't care.

reply to Greenalderbe
My netflix is connected hard wired to the modem i use the pc about 4am in the morning where it is good to use no issues then but dont need it at that hour lol

reply to Greenalderbe
Well, the modem numbers for the downstream power are close to the bottom end limit, but not causing you any problems as indicated by the BER (bit error rate) of 0.0% on all channels.

This looks therefore like a congestion issue somewhere.

My stats are a little better:



I was thinking the same, congestion.

sbrook, it couldn't be local node congestion or?

Thanks

reply to Greenalderbe
By Netflix hardwired to modem, do you mean router? Assuming so as otherwise you'd be unplugging it to use the PC. What model?

Did this just happen last night, or is this happening every, some nights, most nights?

Thanks.

reply to DrugTito

I see, thanks for info sir.

Hopefully rocca will have answer to this

reply to sbrook

well, that clears that idea up

reply to Greenalderbe
Start.ca does not cable internet in montreal?

reply to Greenalderbe
Well been testing pretty much every angle. Netflix was running fine up till about 7PM. Well, running at least.

Right now it's 10:30 PM and I can't sustain Netflix HD (Walking Dead) episode for more than a few seconds. Bandwidth meter reads about 2.5 mbps. Wow, not good. What is that like 1/20th capacity or something?

I would chalk it up to congestion, but we are switching from Rogers 75 meg line when we only had 4 bonded channels and I had no issues streaming 1080P and getting as much as 6000 KBS per thread. Day or night with zero congestion. What gives?

reply to Greenalderbe
Does Start.ca have a local Netflix caching server? (probably not)
Larger ISPs (like Teksavvy) probably do, which can make for smoother streaming.

But then, many people report watching Netflix HD from the USA servers via VPN or DNS proxies, so that probably doesn't really explain anything.

With Teksavvy, I have noticed that a lot of the routes I seem to be assigned have some kind of throttle at about 5mbits/sec per connection. So to get fast file transfers, I have to use multiple simultaneous connections, aka. multi-threaded downloads. Something like that could also be the issue here with routing to/from Start.ca.

Or not.

EDIT: actually, I've noticed a lot of stuff seems slow all of a sudden on our 28/1 Teksavvy service during prime time, as of some time last week. Prior to that, we hardly ever noticed any kind of lasting slowdown. So maybe local node congestion, or CMTS congestion/overloading?

I guess I'll find out in about 10 days from now, when our service here switches over to Start.ca.

Cheers

I would guess Local Node congestion, It makes no sense otherwise for it to be only happening during prime time as Start says they have lots of Bandwidth available Either rocca is Lieing Doubtful or Your Local Node is congested and so during prime time Whammo to your speedo P:) How are speed tests and other activitys during primetime? have you tried changing your DNS to googles open dns to see if that makes a difference?
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reply to Greenalderbe
speed test is smokin.