clownfish

clownfish how much was your cable and speeds before?

And welcome to the forum. 

I was paying about $50 for 3M/768 for charter cable before.  Speeds were ok but during peak hours (6pm-11:30pm) I would literally get like a dl speed of 450kbps.  Needless to say I would ping 300-400 in games.  That's why I switched to dsl, only now I have a new headache. o well

so I talk to a verizon rep. give them my address and all, and she tells me that I can get dsl here at 3M/768.  I order a phoneline and then order the 3M/768 package online.  My dsl started last week and I notice my speeds are capped at 1.5M/384.  I call verizon and they tell me that 1.5M/384 is the max speed I can get for my line.  wtf!  Verizon also tells me that the 3M/768 and 1.5M/384 have the same price at $29.95 for a year contract.  LOL.  I think its very sneaky of Verizon to promote there 3M/768 package online (they don't even mention a 1.5M package) eventhough many customers will only get the 1.5M/384 speed at the SAME price.  Is there anything I can do about this or I am just better off getting cable again.

btw I live in West Covina which is part of Los Angeles County.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 1316 Kbps about 1.32 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

Download Speed is:: 161 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2006/08/07 - 1:34pm

Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 6.36 sec

Tested from a 1496 kB file and took 9.313 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 22.68 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Z2VDJ08F6

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!]

I have the 3M down/256k up package  ($40 + $3.00 for modem + $50 for cable tv)

Here's my download score

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 566 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)

Download Speed is:: 69 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Wed Aug 31 22:13:12 PDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB download in 14.84 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 22.12 % of your hosts average (charter.com)

upload score is about average

I think charter has too many people using the bandwidth since they told me everything was fine.

I want to switch to DSL for better pings in games but I currently have vonage.  Do I have to get rid of vonage and get a phone line to get dsl?  thanks

yea I have the same plan.  I'll give them a call to see whats going on.  I did send them an email a week ago, but I haven't gotten a response back.  One thing I noticed is that my connection problems are the worst during weekdays.  Sat and Sun are usually good, eventhough tonight (Sun) is pretty bad.

Thanks

Wow and I pay $50 for this.  I was wondering why my ping was so bad and getting packet loss in the game I play.  This has been going on for several months now.  Somedays the connection is ok, but its never consistent and my ping is always spiking.  I live in the Los Angeles area (West Covina).  Anyone else experiencing similar probs here?

thanxs

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 375 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)

Download Speed is:: 46 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Sun Aug 7 23:05:12 PDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB download in 22.26 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 15.43 % of your hosts average (charter.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-A9WOURVFQ