Ugh! My cable modem speeds dropped by 80%

Iron Woode

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Oct 10, 1999
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It started yesterday that my cable modem speeds were way slower than normal. Pages took forever to load up and downloading was horridly slow.

I use Rogers Hi-Speed cable modem service.

Getting concerned that it might be my system, I did some speed tests at broadband reports. And low and behold my speeds sucked. 117 kb/sec downloads and 60kb/sec uploads. Normally I got 2500 kb/sec down and 360 kb/sec up. This is using the speakeasy test in NY. So I called my tech support about it and the dunces at level 1 support tell me everything is fine because I have no trouble connecting to the net
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. After getting annoyed with that, I asked to be transfered to Level 2 support. It took him less than 1 min to see the problem. My modem decided to drop me down to Rogers Lite after its serial # became unbound to my service. So he reset everything and 5 mins later I have real Hi-Speed again.

Now i am happy again. :D


 

neutralizer

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Oct 4, 2001
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I had that happen for no reason. Suddenly the intarweb went at 14kbps and i was like OMG its the last century :D:beer: