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« on: August 22, 2006, 12:14:02 PM »
Greetings everyone,

Hopefully someone in this community will be able to help me out with this current issue that I am having with my Comcast cable. Currently I have the 8MPS/768 Kbps plan with Comcast and up until August 6th everything was fine prior to that date my download speed average from 5.5Mbps to 7Mbps and my upload speed was always over 7Kbps.

Since August 6th, my download speed has barely made it to 2.5Mbps while my upload speed has stayed the same. Last week Comcast sent two different techs to my apartment and one line tech to check everything outside as well and I am still having this issue.

How could my download speed be so severely affected while my upload speed has stayed the same?

By the way this problems occurs whether my connection is through my router or through the modem directly into the computer. If you anyone needs for me to run a speed test and post the results I will do that as well.

Al assistance is greatly appreciated. …
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2006, 05:45:52 PM »
Welcome to the forums, jstein. Try reading the two posts in my sig for some help. Have you installed any new software or hardware right around when you noticed the speed drop?
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2006, 08:18:17 PM »
you live in an apartment, the line may be being shared by others in the apartment (not likely but a guess) and
since it is an apartment complex, the main line that everyone connects to could be congested.
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2006, 08:24:23 PM »
Quote from: Nos7667 on August 23, 2006, 08:18:17 PM
you live in an apartment, the line may be being shared by others in the apartment (not likely but a guess) and
since it is an apartment complex, the main line that everyone connects to could be congested.

i dont think it is that becasue it just started happning, if it was that it would have done that all the time.  It may be a spyware problem. jstein have you done any spyware and virus scans.

also did you make any changes to your system or your windows install right before this started happning.
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2006, 08:25:03 PM »
Quote from: jstein on August 22, 2006, 12:14:02 PM
Greetings everyone,

Hopefully someone in this community will be able to help me out with this current issue that I am having with my Comcast cable. Currently I have the 8MPS/768 Kbps plan with Comcast and up until August 6th everything was fine prior to that date my download speed average from 5.5Mbps to 7Mbps and my upload speed was always over 7Kbps.

Since August 6th, my download speed has barely made it to 2.5Mbps while my upload speed has stayed the same. Last week Comcast sent two different techs to my apartment and one line tech to check everything outside as well and I am still having this issue.

How could my download speed be so severely affected while my upload speed has stayed the same?

By the way this problems occurs whether my connection is through my router or through the modem directly into the computer. If you anyone needs for me to run a speed test and post the results I will do that as well.

Al assistance is greatly appreciated. …


Should be fixed now. Their network was being crappy. I lagged out of CS:S and AA that day.
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2006, 11:35:25 AM »
netmasta thanks for welcoming me to the community  :haha:

I will give broadband optimizer a try this weekend hopefully that will help! I have not installed any new software or hardware this month so that is not the issue.

dlewis23 no spyware or virus issues as well because when I take laptop to a cafe or over to a friend's house the speed are normal.

All in all I think the issue lies with Comcast for I have this issue whether or not my connection runs through the router or from the modem directly into the computer and if there was any connection issue from the modem or router it seems that my whole system will be affected and not just the download speed.




::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 1075 Kbps about 1.08 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 131 kB/s
Test Time:: 2006/08/24 - 10:26am
Bottom Line:: 19X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 7.82 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 22.802 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 19.66 % of your hosts average (Comcast.net)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3



::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Upload Connection is:: 600 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 73 kB/s
Test Time:: 2006/08/24 - 10:31am
Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 14.03 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 40.84416 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 43.54 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2006, 06:22:28 PM »
Same exact thing has happened to me. I am on the 8mb plan and now my speeds are horrible. It all started right around the begining of August. I live in a home and we have had no chanegs to any tv/modem/computer setups.

Average speeds before were 7500-9200. Comcast is coming next week to look at it.

Now it is at:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 1080 Kbps about 1.08 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 132 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/08/31 - 5:21pm
Bottom Line:: 19X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 7.76 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 22.687 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 19.66 % of your hosts average (Comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-9HJ5YFADO
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2006, 10:35:34 PM »
Welcome to the forum superawe and jstein  wave
Nice avatar superawe, I think I will be able to keep up. Maybe even pass you.  Mr. Green
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2006, 05:03:04 PM »
I had the same problem. It happened around the time the boosts came around for me. All i did was run tcp optimizer and it fixed. Now my tests with the boost reach 15 to 20 Mbps.
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« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2006, 05:32:51 PM »
Welcome to the forum thetimster   wave
Post a speed test.
Here is a decent test for that size connection.
http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/d_load.php?ni=1&tt=1&s=12160&st=st
Clean out your temp files before testing, it goes straight to the test.  ;)
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