 blazecom
join:2005-12-05
Columbia, MO | actually.... actually you do not have to register every thing with them, just the router... it is a way of controlling access to the network (they use MAC addressing for it) | |
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Claybats
@insightBB.com
| Re: actually.... Windows is not required. Even the software they tell you that you need to have installed so they can troubleshoot issues is not required. All that is required is you tell them the MAC of the router and cablemodem you are using. If you view the FAQ, it tells you how to register the router without calling them.
I am running a linux box as my Firewall/Router and have not had any issues because of it. | |
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| | blazecom
join:2005-12-05
Columbia, MO | Re: actually.... for some reason with mine, when i tried to register i had to call them because it could not register my Linksys WRT54G router, but after calling them it worked fine. | |
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GLIMMER
join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | can you? can you actually prove they are shaping traffic? I know I can download and upload on my box at will with utorrent and it was maxing out last night at 9.1mbits down and .5 up which is what I have it set to | |
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join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | Re: can you? and if you notice that I have also posted screenshots of my utorrent client downloading at 5.5mbits a second and uploading at .5. | |
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join:2003-12-02
Galesburg, IL
 ·Comcast
| Re: can you? Well just to let everybody know... insight quit requiring mac address registration... at least in my area... all you have to do now is unplug the cable modem and when you plug it back in it automatically registers the new mac address for you of whatever you have plugged into the modem. | |
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bugs bunny
@insightbb.com
| packet shapers Um, yeah, they are using packet shapers. About a month after I started using a bittorrent client things started acting slow.
Now, when I first connect, I get really fast speeds, then, about 10-20 seconds later, it grinds to a halt. I ran tracert to find the closest hop to their network, then ran ping -t to that IP address and then started up my browser. Sure enough, everything was A-OK until the browser was and loading a video on Youtube. (and you can shut the hell up about Youtube. It's just used as an example. This happens whenever there is a load put on the line) After the standard 10-20 seconds everything got fucked and I saw the pings go from 1-15 ms to anywhere from 1700 ms to 3300 ms with the rare and temporary dip to 300 ms.
So you can sit there and say they aren't using packet shapers, but you're full of shit. | |
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| Myen
join:2007-10-01
Bloomington, IL
1 edit | Re: packet shapers What you just explained happenes whenever you put a huge load on a connection (AKA downloading youtube videos, torrents, and whatnot), your ping will rocket during the transfer, this is not network shapeing, but network congestion.
And to cover this before someone trys to correct me, even through you can watch stuff on youtube almost right away, you are not streaming it, but essentially Watching it while it downloads, which will take alot of your bandwidth untill it is done downloading | |
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