[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Ernest de Leon]

I had a similar problem with the random disconnects lasting a few minutes a
day.  I called several times to complain and was told that it was 'probably
my router.'  Knowing that I am a systems engineer didn't seem to dissuade
them from this.  Finally I threatened to call corporate and they sent a
technician out.  Turns out some connector had burned out becase of too high
of a signal (or something to that effetc), and they replaced it.  All of a
sudden, I never had another disconnect or lag problem.  Matter of fact,
lately I am getting torrents at almost 600k/s (linux distros).  So while I
suspect that the issues seem like TWC is throttling you  (and they very well
may be), I would think that there is another issue.  I have a huge gripe
with the used modems that they give the consumers.  I have had several
failed modems, some of which failed at installation.  I have to say that
their service and products are of extremely poor quality.  I have a second
residence in the Bay Area of California, and TWC is a godsend compared to
Comcast.  Be thankful that Comcast is nowhere near us here!

Ernest

On 11/2/06, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at bleepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I'm an avid user of bit torrent, I get my work music (hybridized.org)
> via Bit Torrent, and Linux distributions via Bit torrent (openSUSE
> for example) and I'm finding that either Road Runner's performance
> has gone to complete crap recently, or they are throttling the HELL
> out of my connection because of Bit Torrent
>
> My torrent upload cap is set at 10kb/s, which I don't think is unfair
> given that uncapped I've seen it get close to 30-40kb/s, and my
> download is uncapped, but its not snagging more than 20KB/s at any
> given time (these bloody opensuse torrents are slow)
>
> I don't think I'm taxing the hell out of my connection in any sense,
> its not even near what they sold me. However, my connection has
> recently started to drop packets like nobody's business. It took me
> almost 10 minutes to grab a 17MB file from forge.novell.com, and I've
> had numerous downloads stall completely on me beyond repair.
>
> Is anybody else noticing crap like this? I'm relatively close to
> calling Time Warner and complaining and threatening of notifying the
> media (local news channels seem to love stories like this), I can
> deal with the ~5 random disconnects during the day (lasting between
> 2-5 minutes) to some extent, but being throttled this judiciously for
> USING not MAXING out my pipe is ridiculous.
>
> Yeah, I'm having a good day :)
>
> Cheers.
>
> R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
> contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com
>
>
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# Ernest De Leon

"If Microsoft is 'flexible' it explains how their head got where it is."