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Who here is now capped @ 1500/192?

damn... speeds are starting to look like sympatico now...
i was downloading today @ 300kb/sec+ but i did a speedtest and got around 1600/380

reply to Kabdel
I'm in Ottawa too....mine doesn't look capped YET!!!
But I'm sure it will happen soon

2002-06-10 17:45:32
Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1953/368 kbps

reply to Kabdel
actual download speed is more accurate then speedtest mate

reply to Kabdel
Trust me i am capped... For months, the highest i will get any time of the day, even at 3 am is no higher than 1250 kbps... I used to get a 400 kbps upload speed... Then today its 185, 190 kbps, never more...

If i download off microsoft, or any website i never exceed 160 kb/s ~ 1280 kbps...

Here's another test...
2002-06-10 19:04:32 EST: 1116 / 184
Your download speed : 1116608 bps, or 1116 kbps.
A 136.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 184331 bps, or 184 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

Damn this sucks... Its almost as bad as Sympatico... If they implement download/upload cap limits rogers will be pure crap...

[text was edited by author 2002-06-10 19:07:09]

reply to emmpeethree
empeethree ... read for once will ya!

They're talking about the upload speed being capped at 192 (used to be 384), and any upload speed test will almost certainly be able to distinguish the two, unless you've got bandwidth hogs on your node.

reply to Kabdel
Given the following test results...IT DEPENDS..;)
My test download site is behaving like I am not YET capped..it tends to be more consistant 200-250kB/s download speed.

2002-06-10 20:12:06 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1640/181 kbps
2002-06-08 08:32:43 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 2125/364 kbps
2002-06-06 23:29:04 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 1881/347 kbps
2002-06-06 21:13:21 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1599/227 kbps
2002-06-05 19:39:09 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 725/334 kbps
2002-06-03 21:56:10 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 1538/347 kbps
2002-06-03 21:38:40 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 480/259 kbps
2002-06-03 08:19:23 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 2023/327 kbps
2002-06-02 23:52:02 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 1786/353 kbps
2002-06-02 23:51:23 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 783/323 kbps
2002-06-02 23:50:28 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 381/217 kbps
2002-06-02 22:40:33 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 1664/355 kbps
2002-06-02 22:19:00 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 195/117 kbps
2002-06-02 19:31:01 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 758/317 kbps
2002-06-02 18:41:06 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 245/127 kbps
2002-06-02 18:07:02 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 840/290 kbps
2002-06-02 17:55:40 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 491/297 kbps
2002-06-02 17:52:18 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 724/330 kbps
2002-06-02 17:47:48 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 226/119 kbps
2002-06-01 22:40:28 Speed test (bos.speakeasy.net) 798/308 kbps

Paddler ... you are really getting clobbered for speeds in the evening at peak times. The fact that the upload speed drops at the same time as your download suggests that there are people on your node who are doing a lot of file sharing / uploading. Any attempt to upload lots of data really will slow down a cable system.

reply to Kabdel
Your download speed : 1207332 bps, or 1207 kbps.
A 147.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 185771 bps, or 185 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!
(Toronto area)

It seems all DOCSIS modems are capped at this speed.

reply to paddler64
those speeds are all over the place...thank god for DSL.

i'll take consistency any day

2002-05-29 00:07:25 Speed test (www.chi.speakeasy.net) 984/135 kbps
2002-05-29 00:06:44 Speed test (www.bos.speakeasy.net) 978/136 kbps
2002-05-29 00:06:02 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 978/135 kbps
2002-05-29 00:04:52 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 980/135 kbps
2002-05-24 01:54:11 Line quality 0% loss latency 49.2ms View..
2002-05-23 00:22:53 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 978/136 kbps
2002-05-19 00:17:22 Speed test (www.chi.speakeasy.net) 966/135 kbps
2002-05-19 00:16:38 Speed test (www.bos.speakeasy.net) 978/130 kbps
2002-05-19 00:15:32 Speed test (www.bos.speakeasy.net) 935/132 kbps
2002-05-19 00:14:00 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 974/136 kbps
2002-05-14 23:15:48 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 965/135 kbps
2002-05-14 23:11:50 Speed test (www.bos.speakeasy.net) 977/135 kbps
2002-05-07 00:42:13 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 978/135 kbps
2002-05-07 00:40:54 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 984/135 kbps
2002-05-06 23:39:32 Speed test (chi.speakeasy.net) 985/135 kbps
2002-05-03 23:06:36 Speed test (la) 943/135 kbps
2002-05-03 23:05:48 Speed test (wc) 951/136 kbps
2002-04-25 15:08:49 Speed test (wc) 852/135 kbps
2002-04-17 17:38:17 Speed test (wc) 947/135 kbps

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Better. Faster. First.
[text was edited by author 2002-06-11 01:32:58]

reply to Kabdel
Yeah got this here in woodstock I'm thinking, doesn't matter if it's 5pm or 3am it's roughly all the same since the begining of the month.

2002-06-11 03:49:30 EST: 1102 / 185
Your download speed : 1102847 bps, or 1102 kbps.
A 134.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 185485 bps, or 185 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier

While I don't mind speed caps as much as ul/dl caps, it definatly sucks at times. Having only had this since january...if they do introduce ul/dl caps I'll simply move off to another ISP...I'll chock rogers.com upto ISP #8.

reply to Kabdel
Looks like Ottawa got capped overnight.

Phub: tlgw4.flfrd
2002-06-11 07:36:47 EST: 1266 / 182
Your download speed : 1266170 bps, or 1266 kbps.
A 154.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 182857 bps, or 182 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

reply to Kabdel

said by Kabdel:

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My download has been capped at 1500 for a while, but i just noticed they just capped my upload too... Damn...

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reply to TheMatrix
Tell me about it ... to go with the 192 K Upload cap, it looks like they capped our download out here to 792K ... it's as hard as a rock at that speed, no matter who I download from. I complained this morning and am supposed to have a tech come out.

Stuart

Stuart:
I have been thinking.
While you have the tech there, ask where the Richmond Road Phub is located. It may be closer to where you are located than the flfrd Phub.

reply to Kabdel
Are only the terapro modems capped at the low speeds?

reply to Kabdel
I seem to be capped at this speed also in Ottawa with a newer terrayon.

So lame.

reply to TheMatrix
Richmond Road phub is in the old Ottawa Cablevision offices on Richmond Rd., near the old RMOC headquarters building between Island Pk and Woodroffe.

It probably would be a bit closer than Fallowfield (which is where they have their dishes for this end of town), but it makes sense because the cables for Kanata go out of Fallowfield along Fallowfield Rd to Eagleson, and then straight up Eagleson / March all the way out to Dunrobin.
(Constance Bay has its own Cable company)

It's all pole cabling until Fernbank Rd. and goes underground up to nearly Klondike road when it goes back on poles for now! The 2 way stops at Thomas Dolan Pkwy on Dunrobin Rd, and single cable on out to West Carleton School because there's only a few homes left on the system after TDP, I guess.

Cabling from Richmond Road would be a nightmare ... with all that buried part betweeen Rchrd and Crystal Beach.

slnt (St. Laurent) is in the old Skyline Cablevision hq out near the Mus. of Sci. & Tech.

reply to Kabdel
All modems are due to be capped at 1500 / 192 in preparation for the advanced tier service. This from the tech I spoke with this morning. She was quite open about that.

Seems that bit caps are still very much in discussion though - she was hinting that they might not happen given the words she chose! Clever isn't it ... make the noises so that Sympatico and others bite (saying they're following Rogers lead), watching the fallout, and then making up your own mind. Let others take the flack first. Still, I don't believe they won't happen, but it looks like the idea is to see what the low upload speeds will do (after all, 192K is going to make uploads quite pathetic) to the bandwidth hogs, since so much is done on peer to peer.

Stuart

reply to Kabdel
Stuart:
Thanks for the info. Should have figured that you had already been down that road

Now to add to the bit cap debate; how does 30gb down per month with 1 - 2 gb up sound? That appears to be the latest rumor making the rounds.