Any Roadrunner cable people out there?

[Matt Heebner]

Check your speeds ! I just checked mine and went from 2100/300 to 3300/380 lately. I think that the cable co's are increasing their speeds in certain markets. It hasn't been advertised, but it looks like SE Wisconsin is one.
A BIG Thumbs up to TWC!!:D :p


Matt

[jlegge]

What service did you use to check this? It seems like mine has slowed down....

HEY MATT!!! Give me my bandwith back.....

LOL

[Matt Heebner]

DSL Reports (www.dslreports.com)

go to the tools section and then click on speed tests.

Matt

[Matt Heebner]

Or here is a quicker speed test:

Speed Test (http://promos.mcafee.com/speedometer/test_1500.asp)


I am regularly getting over 3200 down.
We will see if this lasts....

Matt

[Snard]

There's another way you can check this, if you have a 3Com cable modem. Go to this URL:

http://3comcablemodem

and check the Operational Configuration

(Different brands of cable modems probably have an equivalent way of checking the maximum download and upload speed)

[John L]

I have Road Runner and cable modem. My speed here in Muskego is 1708.

-John L.

[Steve Mann]

Here in Greenfield, I'm getting my regular 1500 to 1700 or thereabouts.

[Kevin Arnold]

3.412 Mbs out in Hartland.

[Talos4]

3.488 Mbps in Milwaukee

[Snard]

Oops, I didn't give my speed test results.

2.982 Mbps

(that's the best result in 3 tests)

[Tom Snyder]

1.716 Mbps in Germantown

[John L]

Today its 1696 compared to 1708 yesterday...just a tad low, un-noticed.

[Matt Heebner]

This morning I had a 3.88. Not bad.

Matt

[sdn10s]

The McAfee test showed 2.539, the DSL Reports test came in at 3.172. Tests were done back to back. I'm in-between Waukesha and Wales.

[drgingras]

2.749 Mbps in Greendale, on Earthlink (piggybacked on RR equipment and lines). Hadn't checked for a while, since everything was working fine. Definite improvement, both up and down.
Good catch, Matt!
BTW, very cool to be able to "bury the needle" on the McAfee site:D

Dave

[StarvingForHDTV]

3137/364 in Mequon using Earthlink.

Starving

[John L]

Hmmmm...and I am getting 1575 as I write this. Or 1.575, what gives? why is everyone higher? I thought Muskego was up with technology as the rest of Road Runner. Or could it be my computer? I have a 2.0 ghz AMD CPU.

-John L.

[Matt Heebner]

I don't think it's your computer. I using a totally outdated AMD K-6 400 Mhz and I am getting good speeds.
I think it's time to upgrade the computer though!

Matt

[The Law]

If you're broadband, the bottleneck won't be the PC - the NIC will be at least 10 Mbit. The Cable modem prolly caps out at 3 Mbit (not sure - don't know much about their specs). The bottleneck will be the WAN (i.e. RoadRunner) - specially since it's shared.

Also, for home accounts...upload will alway be crap - it's by design (stops people from hosting big sites :)

[mhz40]

Originally posted by John L
Hmmmm...and I am getting 1575 as I write this. Or 1.575, what gives? why is everyone higher? I thought Muskego was up with technology as the rest of Road Runner. Or could it be my computer? I have a 2.0 ghz AMD CPU.

-John L.

That's still faster than a T1. Try this--- http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks, you might be able to squeeze a little more out of your link.
Also, if you are running XP, turn off QOS... it reserves 20% of your bandwidth for some odd reason.

[jlegge]

Err.... whats this QOS thing and how do you turn it off?

Nevermind.... found it here (http://www.technobabble.com.au/technobabble/html/tweaks/access2.htm).

[John L]

Thanks for the instructions. However I typed in qpedit.msc at the run prompt it comes up with the "Windows cannot find 'gpedit.msc' window. Yes I have Windows XP, but I am on my DXer account, not my administrative account or the main account. I will check there in hopes to get it.

-John L.

[John L]

I went to my main account (administration) and unable to do the Start-> Run-> gpedit.msc with getting "Windows cannot find....".

I printed out the notes that Jlegge had the link to, and on the illustration showing the "Limited reservable bandwidth Properties" near the bottom it said "Supported on: At least Microsoft Windows XP Profesional". That probably explains it. I am using the Home edition. Does the home edition have the same thing? If so, what file do I need to check?

-John L.

[mhz40]

Originally posted by John L
I went to my main account (administration) and unable to do the Start-> Run-> gpedit.msc with getting "Windows cannot find....".

I printed out the notes that Jlegge had the link to, and on the illustration showing the "Limited reservable bandwidth Properties" near the bottom it said "Supported on: At least Microsoft Windows XP Profesional". That probably explains it. I am using the Home edition. Does the home edition have the same thing? If so, what file do I need to check?

-John L.

In XP Pro...

Start---> Control Panel---> Network Connections---> (Your Local Area Connnection)---> [Roght Mouse Click] Properties

Uncheck QOS Packet Scheduler option on the 'General' Tab

[John L]

In XP Pro...

Start---> Control Panel---> Network Connections---> (Your Local Area Connnection)---> [Roght Mouse Click] Properties

Uncheck QOS Packet Scheduler option on the 'General' Tab

Thanks! I was able to remove checkmark. I did Speed Test again, now it reads 1464. But then I didn't reboot yet. Will check again tomorrow. Then again the ISP is probably busy right now too.

-John L.

[ajs1122]

Mine was 4.037 from downtown on TWC.
-ajs:wave:

[rnelson]

I got notice from my ISP that my yearly dialup account will expire Nov 1. So, I thought that this is the time to make the change.

I called rr to get setup last Wednesday. They came this AM at around noon and got me running. I needed a new line from the front of the house. I knew that and told the installer that the picture I had with TW was so bad, I droped them two years ago and went to DirecTV.

Well, some things never change. 10 Minutes after he left, my rr stoped working. I called up and was told that the entire Waterford Area is off the air. They did say that they are working on it. That was more than 2 hrs ago.

Maby I should keep my dialup account active :)

When they get the system running again, I'm going to try the speed test.

Roy

[Matt Heebner]

I have had RR for close to 6 mo. now, being a convert from Earthlink DSL that I had for like 3 years. Anyways I can honestly say that RR is pretty good about connection issues, and I've really only had one connection problem that lasted about an hour. That being said though, in the 3+ years I had DSL, I never, ever had a problem with connection, I did have speed issues when they upgraded the Chicago relays (or whatever they are called)

Matt

[kjnorman]

Had speeds ranging from 1600 to 3261kbs tonight.

Speed is nice, mind you if I had my choice I would be happy to have 768kbs if the price was only $25 per month, not $45 per month. Surely there must be a market out there for 1/2 price cable and 1/2 the speed.....

Kerry