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Ughh... wacky inconsistant results...

Apart from the third one to Boston, I'd call those highly consistent results.

Remember you're only downloading about a relatively small amount of data, so the slightest traffic glitch along the way is going to have a big impact on speed tests. +/- 10 to 15% on speakeasy tests is quite acceptable.

It's certainly on the slow side, I'll grant you that ... but given the time of day you took those tests, I'd say it's probably not too slow. It would be interesting to see some of the off peak speeds.

The speeds are definitely not slow enough to get Rogers to do anything about it. They won't touch it when you get speed tests that are over 50% of the cap.

Also, try doing a speed test by downloading something from Tucows using their look.ca mirror site ... and pick something that will generate 5 to 10 MB of traffic at least. Look at the speedgraph on DUmeter. See what that looks like.

Stuart

The thing is, when they imposed the cap, I had consistant 1200kbps+, and it just keeps getting lower and lower... Very rarely I get a result of over 1200kbps or even close to it for that matter these days. I tried tweaks but it doesnt affect anything. Off peak its the same. not much difference. And I did try downloading from tucows, as well as university of toronto (i used to pull over 1MB/sec off this with Shaw) and the speeds are spikey, often dropping to well below 100KB/sec... I don't do any online gaming these days so I cant tell you how stable the pings are... And that upload drop spike every 1 minute is still bothering me...
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said by HiVolt:

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The thing is, when they imposed the cap, I had consistant 1200kbps+, and it just keeps getting lower and lower... Very rarely I get a result of over 1200kbps or even close to it for that matter these days. I tried tweaks but it doesnt affect anything. Off peak its the same. not much difference...

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reply to HiVolt
There is something about the way the caps work that really doesn't seem to work properly.

One would think that if you got 2 MBits/sec on a 3 MBit/sec cap, that you should get 1.5 or pretty darned close to it on a 1.5 Mbits/sec cap, but it doesn't work that way ... you'll get instead 1 Mbit/sec.

Part of it, I can understand ... your acknowledge packets are slower getting back to the sending host, so they are effectively automatically throttling your speed back.

But I agree, it's frustrating.

Stuart

reply to Uriel3

said by Uriel:

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During normal hours I now range; 930-1197 and during peak hours, evenings and weekends am now averaging; 440-860 which is very poor.

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With those kind of speeds, I'd be complaining loudly to Rogers, and if I got anyone telling me to reinstall windoze or drivers, I'd be asking for management in short order.

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said by sbrook:

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There is something about the way the caps work that really doesn't seem to work properly.

One would think that if you got 2 MBits/sec on a 3 MBit/sec cap, that you should get 1.5 or pretty darned close to it on a 1.5 Mbits/sec cap, but it doesn't work that way ... you'll get instead 1 Mbit/sec.

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said by sbrook:

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With those kind of speeds, I'd be complaining loudly to Rogers, and if I got anyone telling me to reinstall windoze or drivers, I'd be asking for management in short order.

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reply to sbrook

It's interesting to look at some of these plots and look at the spikes up and then spikes down ... it's almost as if it's saying "I sent that way too fast, so I'll slow way down for the next packets!"

Yeah, you can see they all peak pretty close to the maximum, 180KB/sec is very close to 1.5mbps (192KB/sec would be), but then it studders down, spikes, etc... Rogers is doing some weird throttling. Like they're crippling it in some way so we don't get consistant results...
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said by HiVolt:

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.. Rogers is doing some weird throttling. Like they're crippling it in some way so we don't get consistant results...

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I'm on a Terayon S-CDMA though.... They won't give me a DOCSIS, i've tried a few schemes already, hehe...

My feelings are that if Roger's chooses to go full steam ahead with this model that probably all the existing modems will need to be replaced with the DOCSIS by next spring for the purposes of consistency, performance, efficiency and of course control. Then it will probably eventually come to pay as you go or should I say as per monthly data and speeds used.

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2002-09-04 19:49:20 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1047/172 kbps
2002-09-02 22:56:07 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1068/174 kbps
2002-09-02 17:48:10 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1083/169 kbps
2002-09-02 16:56:04 Line quality 0% loss latency 49.0ms View..
2002-09-02 16:41:35 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 804/168 kbps
2002-09-01 14:45:21 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 875/168 kbps
2002-08-31 20:06:32 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 697/55 kbps
2002-08-31 20:04:19 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 766/70 kbps
2002-08-29 19:20:46 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 941/167 kbps
2002-08-27 00:14:26 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1169/203 kbps
2002-08-16 23:27:55 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1075/204 kbps
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I hate my inconsistency. I notice that when I'm downloading files it usually starts fast and slows down. I'm thinking that's probably the "MaxRateDown" function in the DOCSIS config file. I'm also noticing slower page loading. My Rogers days are coming to an end, I can feel it coming!

reply to HiVolt
Looks Consistant...
2002-09-02 20:04:28 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1304/149 kbps
2002-09-02 19:19:47 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1393/159 kbps
2002-09-02 19:18:31 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1381/147 kbps
2002-08-13 23:10:10 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1458/142 kbps
2002-08-03 09:39:14 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1464/169 kbps
2002-07-20 08:08:39 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1370/156 kbps
2002-07-15 08:01:24 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1377/106 kbps
2002-07-12 00:01:46 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 764/125 kbps
2002-07-09 18:25:30 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1493/218 kbps
2002-07-06 19:06:10 Speed test (www.bos.speakeasy.net) 1298/145 kbps
2002-07-06 10:10:54 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1447/262 kbps
2002-07-05 07:18:03 Speed test (nyc.speakeasy.net) 1505/338 kbps
2002-07-03 15:58:57 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1547/267 kbps
2002-07-03 15:52:55 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1450/180 kbps
2002-07-03 12:48:43 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1182/272 kbps
2002-07-02 17:52:31 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1385/256 kbps
2002-07-01 20:42:49 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1348/240 kbps
2002-06-30 10:09:38 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1440/280 kbps
2002-06-29 20:52:44 Speed test (www.nyc.speakeasy.net) 1721/294 kbps
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Now Mau, how the F!@#$ are you getting speeds of over 1500 and uploads over 300? Were you testing someone else's connection?

reply to HiVolt
I want to know that too.

reply to HiVolt
oh sorry
the bottom of the list was i guess when they were in the process of capping me....
thats y

the top few are the up to date ones
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reply to HiVolt
just realized, so your true speeds are from the 12th.