[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[NetrixTardis]

it happens,  signal issues.  i would call them, ask them to check the 
signal of your modem on their end, then have them send a tech to check 
signal from your modem to the box on the street (or backyard)  I've had 
to do this every couple of months.  it's TimeWorthless for a reason.  I 
am simply going to ditch their TV service for DirecTV, and keep only the 
RR Premium (10mbits/1mbit)

NetrixTardis

R. Tyler Ballance 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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