I've been with timewarner for about 2 years now ever since I moved to North Carolina as (from my research) the only broadband internet around. My exerience with them, however, is extremely sad. Since I live in a new development, things have been pretty sketchy such as the internet breaking when it rains (geez, its cable underground for a reason). These things were fixed after the first year or so. Lately, however, I'm experiencing a new problem: I get amazing speeds downloading html, BT, ftp, w/e in the 500kbs range, which is expectable but when I surf the web or play games, its horrible. It takes forever to render google, and I lag out of pretty much any game I play. through command prompt I pinged google, and I'm getting numbers like 3000ms.... I thought it was my router, so I connect my modem directly to my desktop, but nope, still crap ping. I really don't want to deal with the tech support people and having them come to my house is horrible as an adult has to be home. Can anyone give a quick diagnostics for my problem?
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Are you sure your data isn't through a satellite?
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Well considering it pretty much randomly happened one day, I suppose its vaguely possible they suddenly switched my service to a top secrete NASA space internet thing....
PS, I would die for your speeds. -
*bump* please help?
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
A couple of things to try. Cable normally use a 1500 mtu. I would try setting it lower to 1492 like a dls line. This is a setting in the routers setup, that does impact your pc's too.
If your using XP try Cablenut optimizer. This is the only one that I have found that has worked for me. -
You need to contact your ISP. It sounds like they have some sort of caching enabled - that explains quick HTML rendering but lousy downloads.
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Do you have cable or dsl? Also, how far from the main center are you?
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I'm probably going to have to contact them eventually, but its a pretty big hassle since someone has to stay home during that time. I'm basically looking for some logical explanation so I can fix it myself, or if the services people come, I can tell them and they can fix it faster ( the last few times they came for the other problems, they were no help at all...)
I have cable, and I think I'm a decent distance away since it was fine a few months ago.
I'll try that problem and get back to you later. -
Fast downspeed, horrible ping
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by sujinge9, Nov 27, 2008.