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optimum online bandwidth throttling??

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drwoo123

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Has anyone experience a recent slowdown in optimum online cable modem service in the past few weeks. My upstream has been throttled to about 20K bytes / sec. I dunno if anyone else has a similiar problem?? If u do have the same prob - any workarounds???


thanx
drwoo
 
Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: halik
cable modem cap...theres ways to flash the modem bios
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which is quickly follow by a denial of service
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Exactly. If you flash the modem bios (or update the firmware), the network will recognize your firmware version, deny you service, and notify someone in your ISP. Then, depending on your ISP, you either just bought the modem or lost your service entirely.
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
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Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
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Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
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yeah, i guess i was one of the lucky ones, my cable provider at home gave out unlimited upload bandwidth. 😀
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
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Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
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My cable is capped at 128kbps up, 512kbps down. For this service I pay £25 per month
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For the 1mbit down, 256kbps up, it's twice the amount, £50 per month 🙁

Cable in the UK sucks 🙁


Confused
 
Originally posted by: Confused
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
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Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
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My cable is capped at 128kbps up, 512kbps down. For this service I pay £25 per month
rolleye.gif
For the 1mbit down, 256kbps up, it's twice the amount, £50 per month 🙁

Cable in the UK sucks 🙁


Confused
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I'm currently paying $45/month for 1500kbps down and 256mbps up. A month or so ago I was paying $79 for 3000kbps down and 512kbps up.

😎
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
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Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
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yeah, i guess i was one of the lucky ones, my cable provider at home gave out unlimited upload bandwidth. 😀
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Are you talking about the @Home cable service? Because your upload should have been capped at 128kbps if that was the case. The download wasn't capped on @Home, but the upload was.
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
why would they be whores and cap at 20K/s up? 😕


its just asking to get bitched at.
Click to expand...

Many cable companies cap the upload speeds at 128kbps (16KBps) or 256kbps (32KBps) because most people on broadband are simply going to use it for email or web browsing - not running an image-driven site and file server from home. Therefore, they can save money by using less bandwidth and still providing the basic service required for most people's broadband (and keep people from hosting servers at home which is against most ISPs Acceptable Use Policy unless you get a business account of some type).
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yeah, i guess i was one of the lucky ones, my cable provider at home gave out unlimited upload bandwidth. 😀
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Are you talking about the @Home cable service? Because your upload should have been capped at 128kbps if that was the case. The download wasn't capped on @Home, but the upload was.
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at home i was on time warner road runner, i might have slipped through the cracks cause i never heard any of my friends getting over 100KB/s up. but here at school...i can max over 1MB/s up to a fast site 😀
 
I wouldn't know much about Road Runner. I've never worked for them. But I do, however, have the unfortunate ability to tell you anything you want to know about @Home, Cox, Comcast, Adelphia, and ATTBI.
 
road runner isn't quite as big as the others i don't think, and home is hawaii, where there isn't a lot of hardcore abuse, so i think they let it slack a little.
 
RoadRunner is huge. With the combination of Comcast and ATTBI, RoadRunner has been grossly outnumbered as far as a customer base goes. Before, it was in the top five biggest broadband ISPs out there.
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
RoadRunner is huge. With the combination of Comcast and ATTBI, RoadRunner has been grossly outnumbered as far as a customer base goes. Before, it was in the top five biggest broadband ISPs out there.
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wow, learn something new every day i guess. the only thing i have to say bad about RR is that at least in hawaii they forced me to use their hardware, and didn't allow self-installation. :|:|:|:|
 
Uh... that's the way it should be. Unless you can prove that you know what you're doing, customers should NOT be allowed to fvck with the hardware. I've fixed too many problems of customers who just thought they'd try tweaking their connection. Either that or calling in once they realized that saying they'd do it all themselves (because, hey, they programmed a VCR, how hard could this be!?
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), they were simply left in the dust with no freaking idea how to connect a few cables.

Besides. If you do it yourself, it's not covered under any warantee and will bring about a charge for having a tech out to repair it. Or piss of the tech on the phone once they realize they're working with a fvcktard who thought he could do it but only managed to hook one end of the coax to the microwave and the other to the cat's ass.

Trust me.... for everyone involved, it's better this way.
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Uh... that's the way it should be. Unless you can prove that you know what you're doing, customers should NOT be allowed to fvck with the hardware. I've fixed too many problems of customers who just thought they'd try tweaking their connection. Either that or calling in once they realized that saying they'd do it all themselves (because, hey, they programmed a VCR, how hard could this be!?
rolleye.gif
), they were simply left in the dust with no freaking idea how to connect a few cables.

Besides. If you do it yourself, it's not covered under any warantee and will bring about a charge for having a tech out to repair it. Or piss of the tech on the phone once they realize they're working with a fvcktard who thought he could do it but only managed to hook one end of the coax to the microwave and the other to the cat's ass.

Trust me.... for everyone involved, it's better this way.
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well i'm no idiot, fvck the warranty, but i was damned sure to watch like a hawk when they were on my rig. fvcking numbnut kids (just like myself) will do anything as a prank, even on their company's time 😛
 
Well, nothing says that you have to stand in the corner blindfolded while he does the install. I had a free premium install, which added things under my warantee for those days where I just don't want to give a sh|t and I want to have someone else do the work. But you bet I watched that scrawny gum-chewing (ARG! NO GUM NEAR THE COMPUTER!!!!) stranger type on my keyboard.

I watched every key he pushed, and then rigorously cleaned it off after he left. Then I appologized to my baby profusely for letting anyone else touch her and promised that it was necessary and that I knew what I was doing -that it... was for the best.

She's still recovering, but we've developed that bond again. She even let me install a second HDD since then, too. She loves me. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Well, nothing says that you have to stand in the corner blindfolded while he does the install. I had a free premium install, which added things under my warantee for those days where I just don't want to give a sh|t and I want to have someone else do the work. But you bet I watched that scrawny gum-chewing (ARG! NO GUM NEAR THE COMPUTER!!!!) stranger type on my keyboard.

I watched every key he pushed, and then rigorously cleaned it off after he left. Then I appologized to my baby profusely for letting anyone else touch her and promised that it was necessary and that I knew what I was doing -that it... was for the best.

She's still recovering, but we've developed that bond again. She even let me install a second HDD since then, too. She loves me. 🙂
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see now you're just mocking me 😛
 
Well, kinda. But it was funny so shhh.

😛

I was standing right next to the guy watching him. Watching everything that he did. No way was I going to let some wierdo screw up my box trying to figure out where the start button was again.
 
hm. i let them come in and run the cable and let the modem boot up. from there i take over and let them take notes 😉 nobody touches my computer 😉

at one point i had a 40 year old cable guy sitting there talking about how he wanted to get into linux. classic 😛
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Well, kinda. But it was funny so shhh.

😛

I was standing right next to the guy watching him. Watching everything that he did. No way was I going to let some wierdo screw up my box trying to figure out where the start button was again.
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i like when the start fingering my Rj45 jack, pretending they're checking for something 😉
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
What!? THEY WHAT!?

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Man... thats when you kick them in the nuts and tell them that you were just checking for something too.
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i think somehow they mistook my ghetto lopsided, flimsy stickered-up case as a sign that i was stupid 😀
 
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