Re: OT: How's your bandwidth today? You been throttled?

Rod Pemberton <do_not_have@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
Yup, could be something temporary, or accidentally cut fiber,
etc., but more likely cost cutting on their part.

Or a [new] customer on your segment who becomes a
heavy user and unthrottled, crowds you out.

Well, I probably keep more info on this than the regular user.
We experienced severe connection problems some years ago which
we couldn't get them to fix...(What's new?) So, I "inventoried"
outgoing path's and incoming (via other methods), DNS servers,
gateway, IP, etc. I check every now and then for changes.
The things they've changed: many more routers, in state and
out of, before they "pass off" the data to "the Internet",
many DNS server changes, external IP after first year of use
(Shock!). They advertise "always on," but in fact we typically
lose connection 15 min. or more per day at random times.
That's been going on for four or five years now... Today,
data from me crosses 1/2 the US today inside Comcast's network,
versus one state, originally. Perhaps, they are slowly building
a "slower," lower cost to them, nation-wide network. So, it'll
be like the phone companies, good connection in network only! :-)

Quite possibly. Cost savings for them.

We only have one "new" neighbor, so I doubt that's the
reason. But, some of the young kids are growing up...

One is all it takes. 8 is all they have, burst. I someone
starts eating it, there's less for their neighbors until/ unless
CC resegments. Which costs so they're unlikely to do it.

Too bad ping can't be used to do speed tests... Then,
one could track which router was the "problem."

Sure it can, with the right [unix] `ping`. Just set the
"size" and flood options correctly. But you'll be limited
by your upload. Nasty and not really good for public nets.
You can use `ttcp` for bandwidth testing in both directions,
but you need shell access to the machines at both ends.

entire area to 8Mb for free... I'll have to wait until I
have need to download a large file, like an OS CD, from a
fast source where I'm familiar with the download speed.

I use ISO images from freebsd.org. They'll immediately
saturate my 3 Mbps connection.

-- Robert

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