Re: Cable winning the speed race

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ranger9 join:1999-08-03 Carlsbad, CA	Re: Cable winning the speed race Cable in my area (Imperial Beach CA) has lost the race! First the facts New IBM Laptop; 733mhz, 256 meg of RAM, 10/100 3com NIC, 3D video, virgin install of Windoz SE, NO coxathome software installed, only IP, DNS, and gateway address's. Here are results from the tweak site: * Results * Your public IP address is 24.9.xxx.xxx (I ain't stoopid) Hops left before discard (TTL) is 114 TCPopts hex string is 020405b401010402 Max Segment Size is 1460 * Your MTU is set ok SACK Permitted (RFC2018) Ping stability - - - - - - - - - - * You are not pingable No packet loss test will be done DefaultRcvWindow is 64240 Your RWIN limits you @200ms to 2569kbps * Your RWIN is set ok at 64240 Your Path MTU Discovery is ON Max sized data packet from you 1500 * Conclusion.. HEALTHY SETUP! * End And here are transfer rates from this site: Test running..Downloaded 60900bytes in 380ms Downloaded 696000bytes in 2700ms First guess is 2062kbps a FAST line - now test 3mb Downloaded 1679100bytes in 28500ms Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded Uploaded 1bytes in 270ms Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded Uploaded 1bytes in 220ms Upload got ok 1 bytes uploaded Uploaded 1bytes in 220ms Upload got ok 50000 bytes uploaded Uploaded 50000bytes in 3350ms Upload got ok 100000 bytes uploaded Uploaded 100000bytes in 5110ms Speed 471(down)/163(up) kbps (At least 9 times faster than a 56k modem) Finish. So, is cable really gaining in speed? Mind you, these tests were taken at 11:30 PM, beyond "primetime". IMHO, DSL will always be consistantly faster when considering duration of online exposure.
ranger9 join:1999-08-03 Carlsbad, CA	to forum · permalink · · 2000-08-23 02:26:48 ·
Anon	I AM VERY ANGRY! at least you have decent cable. Everyone in my neighbourhood has the same problem as me. High latency, packet collisions, and modems constantly timing out.. I had cogeco which was great which got bought over by Rogers and completely screwed us all up during the conversion. My upload is 10k/256k download. IS this worth the 42 $ i pay Canadian a month? I THINK NOT> i want to get DSL but i cannot get it because i am too far away from the switching facility. And this makes me mad because a) rogers sucks because they screwed my entire summer or web page making and uploading up b) they only give me 10K upload c) they have incompetent technical support who thinks an Athlon700 is too slow to surf the web i am angry, and they refuse.. REFUSE to help.. THis is an out rage.. just because my cable modem gives a good ping to YOU.. TRY doing something that requires constant connection like online gaming , or large file transfers. IT IS AN OUTRAGE how she refused to send a tech over to check it out. 2 words for you rogers SUCK IT! i'm leaving you for DSL when i can .. but for now i'm switching to god forbidden dialup shudders -angry cable customer
Anon	to forum · permalink · 2000-08-24 00:28:16 ·


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