Not sure how much this helps...

Comcast just improved their speeds in my neighborhood and this is what I get wirelessly now:
 

 
But, if I can only post here once a minute or so, then how does this really help???

This is mine:


 
 
WOOHOO..... they need to speed me up too. I could pay more for extra speed but it is almost instant, except for the last few days with the server wars.
 
J

Zero latency ping time. How cool is that?

 
I wish I knew... but I don't know what ping time is. Does it mean they are set up in a van next to my home watching me? (looks out window)
 
J

I can now download Bapu's posts 20-40% faster.

bapu


The Bapu
(is a wanker)




And it's all my telco's fault.

"DSL EXTREME???"  Extreme what?  Extreme pain and slowness???  Yikes!

bapu


It's Verizon's fault, not DSLExtreme's. 

When I was in L.A. county I got reputable dl/ul on AT&T with DSLExtreme.

They're in cahoots with the wireless people.
 

sharke


Doesn't matter how fast your download speed is listed at, it's just a "potential" and means nowt if you're downloading from a crappy server, i.e. this one. 

Meebee, but at least I'm getting the forum errors faster.  That's progress, ya?

craigb

sharke


Doesn't matter how fast your download speed is listed at, it's just a "potential" and means nowt if you're downloading from a crappy server, i.e. this one. 

Meebee, but at least I'm getting the forum errors faster.  That's progress, ya?

Can't argue with that. 

Verizon offers Fios to me but I have to assume I'd lose my dslextreme email address and just the plug vendors alone would take me three years to cut over to another email address.

BTW - So far my internet hasn't dropped, but I won't really know until tomorrow morning if the "provisioning" is what was causing my intermittent issues.

craigb


BTW - So far my internet hasn't dropped, but I won't really know until tomorrow morning if the "provisioning" is what was causing my intermittent issues.

That would be a bad modem profile with the incorrect parameters. The best solution is to remove the modem from the terminal and then re-provision it again.
 
I had line issues with Comcast, and knew that from my experience and modem readings and they ignored me. I sent all the settings and it's definitions to the State Attorney General in Olympia, with a nice complaint about the lack of service, and one person trying to sell me telephone 5 times in the same call to complaint about the service. Ignored.  The next morning there were 2 technicians at my place at 8AM, and they replaced the whole wiring in the whole building that was over 20 years old, and the two techs were astounded that the folks in support could not see the bad numbers, and said that they would escalate it to see who the folks were I talked to 4 different times.
 
I showed the tech the numbers from my computer, he checked one more number and went ... wow ... they did not listen to you when you said that? ... I said ... nope ... you are here because of my complaint with the State of Washington ... he said yeah ... my manager said get here now and fix it! I showed him the complaint. He was not happy ... and said ... that's the kind of service that makes us techs look bad, and sometimes we don't see that stuff.
 
Still have some connection issues, but mostly it is Comcast keeping an eye on all the streaming and making sure I can not play 2 World of Warcraft accounts at the same time!

craigb


Wow...  I have to actually go into the Comcast office tomorrow (by the Vancouver Mall) to get a new cable modem (one that has a wireless router included).  If they upgraded where I am (Prune Hill), are you sure they haven't done it where you are as well Pedro?

This is older area and the poles and hanging wires are still around ... most areas that can get the better numbers are underground where you can use the bigger and better wire than the old reliable RG5 (something like that!).
 
I have my own modem, btw ... but these days, all cable providers are taking that ability away from customers, because they want the control and to setup the loop on the modem that allows them to keep track of all your data! It's also easier for the terminals, that only have to worry about one modem and not anything else that required a different set of information and parameters.

Hmm...  I was still having issues so I returned the cable modem I had for a new DORY (still made by Arris) which has wireless networking built in.  Unfortunately, that didn't completely fix the dropping issue (I think the lines outdoors have an issue), but now I'm getting weird download speeds when I test.  ONCE I've gotten back into the 40's, but the rest are all over the map even down to 5.5mbps!  The test looks normal, then kind of jerks down to some lower number at the end of the download test.  Weird...

As for Ken's issue, you're problem might be with the wireless device on your PC not being set up correctly.  Check to see if you're connecting at "n" or "g" (avoid "a" regardless of whether that meant the old specification or if it's supposed to be "ac," the new specification, since it hasn't been finalized yet - also avoid "b" because it's definitely old).  One more thing to check is whether you're connected at 2.4GHz or 5 (the N600 is a Dual Band router).  If you're using 2.4GHz, then you are subject to lots of interference from others, cordless phones and, especially, microwaves.

To summarize, your problem probably lies in either not having a good enough wireless device on your PC or not having it set up correctly to use all the bandwidth your wireless router can deliver.

So, removing "Quality of Service" improves the quality of service!  Figures, eh?

bapu


The Bapu
(is a wanker)




And it's all my telco's fault.

DSL will always be slow ... because of their setup (for one thing) and due to the fact that it is your phone line and that phone line was "split" to be able to handle DSL and the phone company is not spending a nickel on upgrading that phone line at all!
 
It will likely cost you more than what you are paying now, but you should be able to get Internet off Time Warner where you are at. I don't think you are in a Charter area at all.
 
Hope this helps