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« on: December 20, 2004, 08:02:56 PM »
RCN has been this speed-junkie's ISP for almost 4 years. What i like about RCN is their proud & blatant claim to be the "fastest broadband available to the home user".
While other ISP's were installing throttlers, speed caps & data transfer limits, RCN provided customers with a 5 Mbps upgrade, then released the current 7 Mbps "Mach-7" modem, with no hike in the monthly price.
Advertised upload speeds remain at a respectable 800 Kbps; although i have not been able to get higher than ~300 Kbps. This is a definite drawback to me, as i run fileservers on EFNet & this upstream speed provided with the awesome 7 Mbps downstream, proves embarrasing if not pathetic at times.
The top-shelf bundled package "Power CPI Plus" includes unlimited local, regional & long distance phone service; 10 Mb webstorage, 5 email boxes, modem rental, webmail access & optional static ip (nice). Also, Digital cable service & 4 premium channels on the idiot box. i currently pay $169.00/month for all this service.
Service has been bulletproof, one incident last year caused 5 or 10 minutes of signal downtime.

2 thumbs up to RCN's products, premium except for the upload pipe; I can live with that i suppose.... Twisted Evil

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2004, 02:11:17 AM »
I would kill you for that download, but that upload just made me laugh out loud. Twisted Evil

Ever asked your ISP why it is so horribly slow?
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2004, 08:32:16 AM »
Actually, RTB i am positive that the silly upload speed is caused by my registry settings, as i was getting 500-650 Kbps BEFORE i was plagued with the dreaded "10053 software caused connection abort" winsock bug.
After succesfully modifying the registry to rid the bug, upload pipe went south also. Sad
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All around 9:30 a.m. EST....
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 7163 Kbps about 7.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 KB)
Download Speed is:: 874 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 128 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 1.17 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=V0VUGA5QP

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 6586 Kbps about 6.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 KB)
Download Speed is:: 804 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 118 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 1.27 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=960WT4IR8

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 6789 Kbps about 6.8 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)
Download Speed is:: 829 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 121 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 1.24 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=J5N87M6AU
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::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is: 338 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 1013 KB)
Upload Speed is: 41 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line: 6 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 24.98 second(s)
Validation Link :: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=WNHT72USV

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is: 204 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Upload Speed is: 25 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line: 4 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 40.96 second(s)
Validation Link :: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=OC4KHL5H3
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2004, 08:38:16 AM »
If you still know what settings were changed, you could perhaps see if changing one back keeps the bug away and an upload like before.
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2005, 10:49:32 PM »
For the most part, RCN has been good to me.  I am still on one way, which is ridiculous, and they should be ashamed of that.  I do download at 1MB/s though, or 9000kB/s.
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2005, 11:03:31 PM »
 Smile If you are having a winsock problem here is a compressed file that fixes that, I'm not sure if this came from Kelly's-Korner or not but she does have a few things to fix such issues and I have used successfully b4.link is in link section on this site.....as always you assume all responsibility for using this file....good luck.....
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2005, 10:47:17 PM »
Quote from: RTB on December 21, 2004, 02:11:17 AM
I would kill you for that download, but that upload just made me laugh out loud. Twisted Evil

Ever asked your ISP why it is so horribly slow?
Indeed yes, many times badgering the minimum-wage customer support people revealed what has been the monkeywrench since cable internet's day 1: Upload speed is throttled/capped to distract any home users from running websites/webhosting on the cable service.
A ridiculous theory, but is surely the downside of cable ISP's.

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