Adelphia, fast, slow, faster.

My cable connection through Adelphia started slowing down about Friday. By
Monday it had slowed down to about 185 kb/s. I talked to two different
Adelphia techs and finally set up an appointment. I tested it yesterday
under Slackware (three different installs, Knoppix 3.7, Slax and my MSwin
2000 partition. MSwin was the fastest but all were very slow. Pings were
very slow. A ping into my computer showed lost packets.

Today (Tuesday) at first everything was blindingly fast. I tested under most
of the variety of OS' listed above. Then things slowed way down. Then they
came up again half way. I have no clue, and Adelphia had no clue, what was
wrong.

Adelphia did come up with a neat testing site. Visit http://toast.net, and
when the first screen comes up select "Performance Test" in the upper right
corner. When that screen comes up select a combination like "Shuttle" and
"Space Port USA." The selections available seem to change dynamically.
After you run the test you get a throughput test. Mine jumped way up and
just now it is back down to 180KB again. Ran it again and it jumped up to
2200kb. I have no clue why it jumps up and down. Network load should not
cause such wild variations from minute to minute.

Did anyone else experience unusually slow throughput this weekend?

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John Culleton wrote:
> My cable connection through Adelphia started slowing down about Friday. By
> Monday it had slowed down to about 185 kb/s. I talked to two different
> Adelphia techs and finally set up an appointment. I tested it yesterday
> under Slackware (three different installs, Knoppix 3.7, Slax and my MSwin
> 2000 partition. MSwin was the fastest but all were very slow. Pings were
> very slow. A ping into my computer showed lost packets.
>
> Today (Tuesday) at first everything was blindingly fast. I tested under most
> of the variety of OS' listed above. Then things slowed way down. Then they
> came up again half way. I have no clue, and Adelphia had no clue, what was
> wrong.
>
> Adelphia did come up with a neat testing site. Visit http://toast.net, and
> when the first screen comes up select "Performance Test" in the upper right
> corner. When that screen comes up select a combination like "Shuttle" and
> "Space Port USA." The selections available seem to change dynamically.
> After you run the test you get a throughput test. Mine jumped way up and
> just now it is back down to 180KB again. Ran it again and it jumped up to
> 2200kb. I have no clue why it jumps up and down. Network load should not
> cause such wild variations from minute to minute.
>
> Did anyone else experience unusually slow throughput this weekend?
>
I work for MediaCom and that site is governed by the website that you
are testing from. I have found www.cnet.com with the bandwidth tester to
be better.

Shadow