Road Runner Milwaukee - capped at 200,000 bps
J.P. Stawski
http://www.execpc.com/~jstawski/signal.jpg
What could be the reasoning behind this? Could we be running
on reduced capacity because of equipment failure? Anyone
else in Milwaukee see their transfer speeds drop to a fraction
of what they were (160-170KB/sec down to 15-20KB/sec in
my case).
J.P.
Adam Leinss
wrote:
Hmm, just noticed this. Upstream is still 40KB. Same thing here.
I was getting 95KB on one MP3 and 157KB from Microsoft on the first
day I got it installed. Now I get 20KB from Microsoft. Something is
amiss. It shows that Network status as okay, so....dunno.
Adam
Coder
they said there are some problems (they hadn't a clue as to what, though).
I then called the national road runner help desk, they reffered to their
network people who are supposed to get back to me....
Anyway, from the bit of research I did, and from what I've been told, it
sounds like their having some routing / equipment issues. If you run a
trace route, you'll see it around columbus OH, it is intermittent though.
It started happening here on Friday night. I'll repost, if I get any new
info.
Jack
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:05:54 GMT, jsta...@wi.rr.com (J.P. Stawski)
wrote:
>My modem reports a max downstream datarate of 200000 bps.
>http://www.execpc.com/~jstawski/signal.jpg
>
>What could be the reasoning behind this? Could we be running
>on reduced capacity because of equipment failure? Anyone
>else in Milwaukee see their transfer speeds drop to a fraction
>of what they were (160-170KB/sec down to 15-20KB/sec in
>my case).
>
>J.P.
Adam Leinss
>Time Warner (Northside of Milwaukee) still at full speed...
I'm in Northwest Milwaukee and I'm capped at 20KB per second.
Adam
Albion
> I was getting 95KB on one MP3 and 157KB from Microsoft on the first
> day I got it installed. Now I get 20KB from Microsoft. Something is
> amiss. It shows that Network status as okay, so....dunno.
Ok, we all warned you before you even signed up. Road Runner is a share
circuit. What this means is that EVERYONE on your block (Not really the
block but I forget what TW calls it) shares the same circuit that you use.
Therefore if 15 people on your block are using roadrunner at the same time
(Usually at peak) you are going to see slowdowns. You honestly thought
you'd be the only one on your block to get roadrunner once it was released?
You know, I have had a lot of hassles getting DSL working with whatever
company I've signed up with but once it's working I know for a fact I am the
only one who's going to be using that wire. I always get 90k+ even during
peak periods to microsoft.com.
On a second note, I could be wrong and TW could just be having problems, but
what do you expect from a new service. But I doubt I am wrong about my
first statement.
-cm
CL
I think it is a technical problem. Somehow, some of the modems them
selves have benn capped to 20K download speed. I have not had this
problem.
The service in Milwaukee is so new; I doubted the networks have been
maxed with users.
--
CL
J.P. Stawski
>
>Ok, we all warned you before you even signed up. Road Runner is a share
>circuit. What this means is that EVERYONE on your block (Not really the
>block but I forget what TW calls it) shares the same circuit that you use.
>Therefore if 15 people on your block are using roadrunner at the same time
>(Usually at peak) you are going to see slowdowns. You honestly thought
>you'd be the only one on your block to get roadrunner once it was released?
>
cleared history for IE in the last 5 minutes. Maybe I'd better give RR tech
support another call.
They could probably save a lot of money on staffing costs if they just
recorded a message and played it back continuously:
".....delete files, clear history, have a nice day......."
".....delete files, clear history, have a nice day......."
".....delete files, clear history, have a nice day......."
".....delete files, clear history, have a nice day......."
".....delete files, clear history, have a nice day......."
J.P.
Mark AC
email from them as well. They concurred that this is a widespread,
sporadic problem in this area and that they're well aware of it and
working on it. They told me it's completely unrelated to the shared user
dropoff (which should still leave you with speeds greater than DSL... per
their people) and that it should be corrected within the week. They
strongly emphasized that the modems have not been capped.
--
Mark
Please remove NOSPAM from email address if replying privately.
Jack
necessarily a wide area...
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:17:57 GMT, Adam Leinss <ale...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
Albion
But I could see, with the flood of new RR subscribers, the lines being maxed
at peek times soon.
-cm
Albion <alb...@execpc.com> wrote in message
news:39734f96$0$94746$726...@news.execpc.com...
> > Hmm, just noticed this. Upstream is still 40KB. Same thing here.
> > I was getting 95KB on one MP3 and 157KB from Microsoft on the first
> > day I got it installed. Now I get 20KB from Microsoft. Something is
> > amiss. It shows that Network status as okay, so....dunno.
>
> Ok, we all warned you before you even signed up. Road Runner is a share
> circuit. What this means is that EVERYONE on your block (Not really the
> block but I forget what TW calls it) shares the same circuit that you use.
> Therefore if 15 people on your block are using roadrunner at the same time
> (Usually at peak) you are going to see slowdowns. You honestly thought
> you'd be the only one on your block to get roadrunner once it was
released?
>
> You know, I have had a lot of hassles getting DSL working with whatever
> company I've signed up with but once it's working I know for a fact I am
the
> only one who's going to be using that wire. I always get 90k+ even during
> peak periods to microsoft.com.
>
> On a second note, I could be wrong and TW could just be having problems,
but
> what do you expect from a new service. But I doubt I am wrong about my
> first statement.
>
> -cm
>
>
>
J.P. Stawski
http://www.execpc.com/~jstawski/logsdata.html
Looks like they tried to resync on different frequencies which all failed to
obtain whatever a FEC LOCK is. They made the following changes:
HFC: UCD Minislot size change
HFC: UCD Symbol Rate change
and then they were able to bring everything back up on the original freq.
(585MHz).
It seems to be the point where the Milwaukee Office adjusted the downstream
bitrate to 200Kbps for (some?) of it's subscribers. It happened Friday 7/12
at 21:37.
J.P. Stawski
>It seems to be the point where the Milwaukee Office adjusted the downstream
>bitrate to 200Kbps for (some?) of it's subscribers. It happened Friday 7/12
>at 21:37.
Oops.... 7/12 was Wednesday, not Friday.
I guess all that had nothing to do with the slowdown
because everthing was normal Wednesday and Thrsday.
J.P.
spe...@tabbert.net
fixed soon.
spencer tabbert
In article <6lqc5.1932$%P2.1...@typhoon.mw.mediaone.net>,
jsta...@wi.rr.com (J.P. Stawski) wrote:
> My modem reports a max downstream datarate of 200000 bps.
> http://www.execpc.com/~jstawski/signal.jpg
>
> What could be the reasoning behind this? Could we be running
> on reduced capacity because of equipment failure? Anyone
> else in Milwaukee see their transfer speeds drop to a fraction
> of what they were (160-170KB/sec down to 15-20KB/sec in
> my case).
>
> J.P.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Jack
Let's make sure we all call Time Warner and maybe with enough reports,
they will make fixing this problem a priority.
CL
> I got a number of these error messages in my modems logsdata.html file.
> http://www.execpc.com/~jstawski/logsdata.html
> Looks like they tried to resync on different frequencies which all failed to
> obtain whatever a FEC LOCK is. They made the following changes:
> HFC: UCD Minislot size change
> HFC: UCD Symbol Rate change
> and then they were able to bring everything back up on the original freq.
> (585MHz).
>
> It seems to be the point where the Milwaukee Office adjusted the downstream
> bitrate to 200Kbps for (some?) of it's subscribers. It happened Friday 7/12
> at 21:37.
How does one access the log of the modem?
--
CL
Poof
That though work.. (If it doesn't remove the s from log...)
"CL" <c...@somewheredot.com> wrote in message
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Coder
aware of it, and they told me their top people are working on it.
I told them it had been going on since Friday, and they said they would
credit my account for all of the days of messed up service. Seems
reasonable to me, since at least I have some access. They said they should
have it resolved "soon".....
Whiskey Mike
: Connect to http://192.168.100.1/logs.html
Sure. An internal IP address is going to do outsiders a bit of good.
-wm
Bob Simmons
know if I read this here, but I have heard that someone clicked on
network neighborhood, and could see a whole bunch of boxes in the actual
neighborhood! Anyone else experience this? What protocol are they
using, TCPIP?
thanks
CL
turn off the modem to see whether it will fix the problem. When the
network came back on and the modem synced, my speed was capped at
200,000.
My advice is not to turn off your modem if you have not been hit by this
bug. I think the network told the modem to cap at 200,000 during sync.
I called tech support today. They are aware of the problem, but not the
cause.
--
CL
Jack
they said the 200K problem should be resolved by 8 or 9pm tonight..
Fingers crossed...
MrBates388
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
>apparently it will be available in my neck of woods in July. I don't
>know if I read this here, but I have heard that someone clicked on
>network neighborhood, and could see a whole bunch of boxes in the actual
>neighborhood! Anyone else experience this? What protocol are they
>using, TCPIP?
>thanks
>
That would be correct and if you don't want someone mounting your
'default' shares, you'd best be disabling file sharing and any unused
ports.
Coder
are the rest of you.
forget
default of the GI surfboard they are installing in most places. When it
boots up and connects to the cable network it gets it's config from a TFTP
server somewhere. Apparently the config file it was supposed to get was
misplaced (?!?!?) which meant that the default 200K download limit was then
in place.
They figured out what happened, put the config files back where they were
supposed to be and sent out an SNMP reboot command to all the cable modems
that were turned on. If you still have the problem, just cycle power on you
cable modem, and all should be well.
Kano Ako
<no...@hotmail.com>Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:20:09 GMT writes:
>
>Finally, I'm back up to normal speeds (about 220 KB/s avg). Hopefully so
>are the rest of you.
>
>
Does Roadrunner ISP give out static IP addresses or do you get an address
from a DHCP server when needed? Thanks
Mag-ingat kayong lahat ang sabi ni Kano Ako!
Adam Leinss
wrote:
[snip]
>Does Roadrunner ISP give out static IP addresses or do you get an address
>from a DHCP server when needed? Thanks
From a DHCP server when needed. But the lease for an IP goes for
about 3 to 4 days, sometimes longer.
Adam