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Every night around 5:30 or so when people around here start getting home from work, and they feel like going on the internet I suffere a HUGE loss of speeds. This continues until people start to get themselves in bed and off the damn internet (around 10:30 pm). My normal connect speed is around 1000 kB/s download...... but hey not during prime time hours. Here is what I'm getting right now at 7:44 pm.

Your connection is: 1266 Kbps or 1.3 Mbps
You downloaded at: 155 kB/s
You are running: 22 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 6.61 second(s)
Member Ident:Username:PeePs CompID:6620884078589
Test Time:: 2007/08/14 - 5:41pm
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Test ID: B7FUN2Q6Y (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 20.37 % of your hosts average (Cox.net)
This was tested from a 2992 kB file and took 19.359 seconds to complete

Yep, advertised speeds are 7 Mb. So basically I start to try and play some online gaming and notice that my ping times are 100+ in every server. So today I was playing and I made a nice new talking bind, "Prime Time is lag time for Cox Communications!"

So basically this is all leading up to me saying....... F#@& Cox COMMUNICATIONS
Guess I should call em, but I'm leaving for College in a week so it seems almost like a waste, but I guess I could help my dad out and get him the speed he is paying for.

so basically they said they wasn't anything wrong with ur connection and their not doing anything to fix it?

PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check your PM'S!!!!!

I've looked through everything on their twice and haven't seen anything that mentions the rx or tx levels. We have probably had our modem for about...4 or 5 years (maybe more i can't really remember). It's a Motorola SB5100.

I was looking at the Log and it shows quite a few error, dunno if this is normal. Here are a the most recent log posts.

2007-08-16 12:19:58 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)
2007-08-16 12:05:47 3-Critical R005.0 Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out
2007-08-16 09:44:27 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)
2007-08-16 02:21:33 5-Warning D103.0 DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response
2007-08-15 21:53:41 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)
2007-08-15 14:21:33 5-Warning D103.0 DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response
2007-08-15 13:47:31 3-Critical R005.0 Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out
2007-08-15 08:59:12 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)
2007-08-15 02:21:33 5-Warning D103.0 DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response
2007-08-14 20:23:42 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)
2007-08-14 14:21:33 5-Warning D103.0 DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response
2007-08-14 10:47:10 5-Warning B605.10 Map Reject - Downstream Traffic Flow Not Mapped to BPI+ SAID (EC=8)

my downstream power level is -7 dBmV and my upstream is 52 dBmV.

and my signal to noise ratio is 36 dB.

Any changes needed?

problems occuring pretty much every day from 5 pm till around 10 pm.

How do I change those values, and what should I change them to?

damnnnnnn, thanxs for all the information. I guess I never realized that the actualy hardware stuff could affect it so much. Being my ignorant self, I always just thought the cable going to your house was either good and your internet worked, or it was bad and your internet would have problems. Never realized splitters and stuff could affect my internet like that. I guess I'll just leave it alone for now, unless it gets worst.