AOL broadband running at 60Kbs

My speed dropped to a permanent 60kbs on Thurrsday and remained at
that until yesterday, when in was back up to normal (3.7Mbs). Today
it's dropped to 1.2MBs

Trying to talk to their (Indian) technical support is like banging
your head against a brick wall. All they do is blame my equipment.

Anyone else have a speed issue?

At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
not being limited.

Can anyone recommend an alternative no restrictions IP ?



DS

DS wrote:

>
> At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
> limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
> not being limited.
>


No issues here at all. Not ever seen any effects of the limits that you
are seeing above - always can max out the connection from a good source.

"DS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My speed dropped to a permanent 60kbs on Thurrsday and remained at
> that until yesterday, when in was back up to normal (3.7Mbs). Today
> it's dropped to 1.2MBs
>
> Trying to talk to their (Indian) technical support is like banging
> your head against a brick wall. All they do is blame my equipment.
>
> Anyone else have a speed issue?
>
> At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
> limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
> not being limited.

are you certain it's not contention that's causing your slowdowns, rather
than the ISP itself limiting throughput?

P.

On Wednesday, in article <(E-Mail Removed)>
(E-Mail Removed) "Flyer" wrote:

> "DS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My speed dropped to a permanent 60kbs on Thurrsday and remained at
> > that until yesterday, when in was back up to normal (3.7Mbs). Today
> > it's dropped to 1.2MBs
> >
> > Trying to talk to their (Indian) technical support is like banging
> > your head against a brick wall. All they do is blame my equipment.
> >
> > Anyone else have a speed issue?
> >
> > At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
> > limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
> > not being limited.
>
> are you certain it's not contention that's causing your slowdowns, rather
> than the ISP itself limiting throughput?

I'm getting the same explanation from my ISP, but I feel they must be
doing something, since NNTP traffic on port 119 fails at peak time, but
other services don't seem to slow down.

That is, I don't just get a sluggish response. It's zero. Yet if I just
go for the standard telnet port I get an error message from the server.

And I've found this with three different news servers.



--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

On the horizon, a carrier task force of the Salvation Navy was
turning into the wind, preparing to launch Zeppelins.

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:53:04 -0000, "Flyer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"DS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> My speed dropped to a permanent 60kbs on Thurrsday and remained at
>> that until yesterday, when in was back up to normal (3.7Mbs). Today
>> it's dropped to 1.2MBs
>>
>> Trying to talk to their (Indian) technical support is like banging
>> your head against a brick wall. All they do is blame my equipment.
>>
>> Anyone else have a speed issue?
>>
>> At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
>> limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
>> not being limited.
>
>are you certain it's not contention that's causing your slowdowns, rather
>than the ISP itself limiting throughput?
>
>P.
>
Yes. If it was contention the speed would vary. This is a continuous
speed, that never varies all evening.

I have since found out on ADSL.org that they ARE throttling services
to heavy users, despite denying this - Lying bast*rds !!

DS

DS wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:53:04 -0000, "Flyer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>>"DS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
>>> My speed dropped to a permanent 60kbs on Thurrsday and remained at
>>> that until yesterday, when in was back up to normal (3.7Mbs). Today
>>> it's dropped to 1.2MBs
>>>
>>> Trying to talk to their (Indian) technical support is like banging
>>> your head against a brick wall. All they do is blame my equipment.
>>>
>>> Anyone else have a speed issue?
>>>
>>> At peak times (Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM onwards) the speed gets
>>> limited anyway, as it has done since last summer, yet they insist it's
>>> not being limited.
>>
>>are you certain it's not contention that's causing your slowdowns, rather
>>than the ISP itself limiting throughput?
>>
>>P.
>>
>Yes. If it was contention the speed would vary. This is a continuous
>speed, that never varies all evening.
>
>I have since found out on ADSL.org that they ARE throttling services
>to heavy users, despite denying this - Lying bast*rds !!

They are not denying it:

http://info.aol.co.uk/broadband/faqB...d.adp#answer30

official since the beginning of Feb (maybe)

And 'peak' looks to now include Friday night :-(

I am a very heavy user and got capped as soon as the policy changed;
it looks fair enough though - 6pm to 11pm. At 11pm I go straight back
to 2mb