Adelphia Upgrades

OK ... I'm running through a server using InJoy firewall and seeing:

2005-03-16 18:20:49 EST: 1039 / 413
Your download speed : 1064818 bps, or 1039 kbps.
A 129.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 423632 bps, or 413 kbps.

I'm on an Motorola SB4100. I suspect that the firewall is slowing down the speeds, but I'm adverse to taking it down for tests. I've got three Windows machines behind that OS/2 firewall, and I'd rather not see blood .. []

Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Adelphia Premier
XP Pro, SP2.
Athlon XP 1700+ on a Nforce2 board
1 gig ram
Connected behind a Linksys 11g router via NAT (on a Linksys 10/100 ethernet card)
Toshiba PCX2600 Cable modem

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Premier without QOS:

Your download speed : 3448260 bps, or 3367 kbps.
A 420.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 809607 bps, or 790 kbps.

...but I routinely get around 530k/s download from usenet from servers located in Equinix/Ashburn

 

Insert in Adelphia bill today states they've increased their speed as follows:

Premier:
Max Download Speed - Current 4 Mbps - New 6 Mbps
Max Upload Speed - Current 512 Kbps - New 768 Kbps

Preferred:
Max Download Speed - Current 3 Mbps - New 4 Mbps
Max Upload Speed - Current 256 Kbps - New 384 Kbps

 

830k down?! from where? I max out around 550k/s

 

Steve ...

how is your network setup ?? Just wondering as I'm using a software firewall on an old 333mhz Pentium II, and I don't get those speeds.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

my download speeds are all over the place. Im ranging from 3900 to 5400. My uploads are pretty consistent around 870. Anyone else seeing inconsistent download speeds?

DwArFlOrD

 

Yes... the speeds have been all over for me too.

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I've seen varried speeds to the same locations. And I've also noticed a slight drop durring peak (6pm-11pm). Also, today the connection seems VERY unstable. Since late last night (early morning) I see the connection drop for a few seconds then it's back. I haven't had much time to look into it but I'll report back if I find anything.

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Well... seems Adelphia is down for the count right now for me. I was starting to think the drops I was having all day was on my end but I was able to run long 2 second pings and see drops every so often then it would pick up. Right now my modem won't sync either. Seems there is something amiss.

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Well, Adelphia is completely down for me today. I've had intermittent outages over then last week, but none of them lasted more than 5 or 10 minutes. This outage far exceeds that in length. I just called Adelphia, and voice system said that they were experiencing an outage. They didn't give an ETA, though.

 

The problems (I think) started Thursday. It's now working for me but download speeds are half what they used to be. It seems Adephia finally started to look at this as a real problem late last night when the connection when down hard. They've been working on it since.

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Yeah .. I noticed around 1AM, Saturday morning, I was on fine, then I went to download something and got the 'server not found' indication. Looked at the modem, and it was trying to sync.

Obviously, it's up and running now at the time I posted this.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Yeah I slowed down also, at least on the download.

2005-03-26 13:30:17 EST: 4106 / 844
Your download speed : 4205259 bps, or 4106 kbps.
A 513.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 864819 bps, or 844 kbps

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Speeds are horrible. I was lucky to get 1.3 mb download speeds last night. Does anyone happen to know what is going on w/Adelphia? I have linux distros that need downloading....

DwArFlOrD

 

hehe... I'll have to download FC4 at work. I might just bite the bullet and call Adelphia tonight. This is getting to be too much. It's been slow for 5 days now. I just downloaded Firefox 1.0.2 at a whopping 700k. That's faster than dial up or IDSL but far from the 6000k of Premeir. I wouldn't mind so much if it was a clean 700k (no packet loss and very low latency) but I'm seeing high latency at times.

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