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reply to TMar

Re: [KY] Good speeds bad game/video playback

reply to MediacomChad
Like I said tethering to my computer. The same page just refreshed once I switch connections. No switching to the mobile site.

reply to TMar
They should not be connection specific. Is your cellular connection using the mobile site by chance?

reply to MediacomChad
Yeah that's why I tested on numerous channels. Swamping resolutions netted the similar speeds. I know sometimes I see huge download speed differences just swapping resolutions. Not in this case. In the end when this happens I can't even watch a 360p video on my cable connection without constant buffering and yet cellular connection does fine during these times. 'Site problems' shouldn't be connection specific.

reply to IowaMan
If you are streaming videos from Youtube I do know that depending on site traffic and the channel you are watching may have some lag. I experience that and so do others on other ISPs, especially on high qualities.

reply to TMar
Um... Im pretty sure you can call in and get bumped up to 15Mbps for free WITHOUT going to the new caps. I know of several people in my area that did that, before I got the 30Mbps which doesn't bother me as it is just me on one computer and my highest has been 230GB or so. More if i'm uploading lots of pictures and audio files for the church that I work at.

reply to MediacomChad
One device, my computer (teathering done by wifi and USB an equal number of times). With auto HD for Chrome so 720p every time (it automatically enters large video mode and sets it to the desired (in my case 720) resolution.

Test done by doing wired connection for mediacom then disabling ethernet, turning on tethering and refreshing the page. Then disabling tethering and enabling the wired connection. Rise and repeated 5 times for each connection done on several videos. So ~35 tries on each connection. Speeds were fairly consistent for both.

The slowdowns happen almost daily from ~6pm-~10pm. At these times Steam, torrents of Ubuntu and speedtest can max the connection.

AT&T tethering speed

reply to TMar
Are you streaming the videos in the same quality on both devices/connections?

reply to TMar
After testing with several videos it seems that while on Mediacom during these late afternoon youtube slowdowns where I'm currently buffering at ~200kbps. Tethering over to 3g gives me a nice constant ~1800kpbs on the same videos. Going back and forth bewteen 3g and cable on the same videos (again 5 different videos testing both connections 5 times each) nice speeds on AT&T cellular not so much on cable each time.

reply to tdawg
We use mostly an AT&T backbone, and some Comcast as well. You can figure it out by doing a tracert to whichever site you would like and you can see through the hops whether they are AT&T servers or not.

reply to TMar
isnt mediacom on the comcast backbone or is that just des moines area

reply to TMar
Okay thank you. I got the message.

reply to MediacomChad
Wired switch upstairs wired to the AP/router downstairs and the modem down there also. What account information do you need? I sent the phone # on the account to you last night.

reply to TMar
Are you wired to the modem or the router? In order to further look into this I would need your account information. Can you private message that to me?

reply to MediacomChad
Wired connection.

reply to TMar
TMar,

Are you using a wireless router? If you are, when you are having these issues, ping your routers IP directly and post the results.

reply to GLIMMER

reply to MediacomChad
there is no way your ping should be 50ms 2nd hop out

reply to TMar
We are aware of issues with Youtube, but I have not had any reports of speed issues in the area. Can you send me an IM with your account or phone number so I can look into the issues you are having?

Late evenings I had poor youtube playback and erratic game pings. There seems to be a problem area around AT&T's side.

C:\Users\Tony>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [74.125.225.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 53 ms 52 ms 53 ms 172.30.1.213
3 54 ms 56 ms 52 ms 172.30.1.217
4 73 ms 53 ms 52 ms 172.30.1.145
5 58 ms 58 ms 58 ms 12.249.52.29
6 75 ms 66 ms 64 ms cr81.desia.ip.att.net [12.122.153.50]
7 65 ms 63 ms 64 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.153.41]
8 64 ms 96 ms 143 ms ggr3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.9]
9 * 60 ms 69 ms 12.250.28.6
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 92 ms 77 ms 59 ms 209.85.250.28
12 74 ms 67 ms 65 ms ord08s06-in-f9.1e100.net [74.125.225.41]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to www.google.com [74.125.227.144]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 57 ms 53 ms 68 ms 172.30.1.217
3 56 ms 58 ms 71 ms 172.30.1.213
4 56 ms 55 ms 59 ms 172.30.1.145
5 165 ms 101 ms 62 ms 12.249.52.29
6 64 ms 64 ms 77 ms cr81.desia.ip.att.net [12.122.153.50]
7 82 ms 64 ms 64 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.153.41]
8 58 ms 79 ms 77 ms ggr3.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.9]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 64 ms * 65 ms 209.85.254.128
11 60 ms 98 ms 64 ms 72.14.237.110
12 85 ms 83 ms 78 ms 72.14.239.137
13 108 ms 88 ms 77 ms 209.85.243.179
14 116 ms 104 ms 117 ms 72.14.237.220
15 80 ms 84 ms 83 ms 216.239.43.187
16 75 ms 80 ms 79 ms dfw06s17-in-f16.1e100.net [74.125.227.144]

I still get ~15Mbps/1.5Mbs on speedtest but can't even buffer a 360p video. With the video info box up it shows down jumping from 0 to only around ~500kbps then back to 0 for a second.

Watching pings in TF2 go from ~70 bouncing around up to ~160 and occasionally higher ~250ish.