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    Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!

    in Show off your speed

    Posted

    So I have run this test with six of my computers, multithread on, off, and to the same three test servers.

    I have been doing this on and off for three years now and connecting directly to the modem makes no difference at all.

    The router is a Netgear Nighthawk XR1000 at default settings and Spectrum used it to pronounce my connection all good.

    Why so much difference on all computers?

    Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!

    in Show off your speed

    Posted

    Well, if you liked that you may enjoy this single page pdf excerpt from my newest novel. Part One of this saga is also in Book Three which is currently available from leanpub.com

     

    Synopsis

     

    This “Spectrum Rhymes with Rectum” title is in effect a sequel to the writers’ previous four books and follows the main character, Lefty, (who considers himself a Wilbury) in a fight against a monopolistic corporation for his fair share of Megabits from a Cable Internet Goliath.

     

    The Insider Trilogy plus three is as follows:

     

    Book One

    The Insider

    (A Life Inside the Personal Computer)

     

    Book Two

    The Cozening (A Murder of Promise)

     

    Book Three

    The Insider Goes Deep

    (Tales from the Dark Web)

     

    And its companion book:

    Book Four

    A User Guide to the Dark Web

    (The 42nd and Final Encyclopedia Cyberspacia)

     

    Book Five (in the works)

    Spectrum Rhymes with Rectum

    (The fight for Megabits)

     

    Book Six (in the works)

    The Insider Goes to Space

    (Tales from Beyond Planet Earth)

     

    Note: All books are available on leanpub.com

    https://leanpub.com/bookstore?type=all&search=Lefty%20Insider

     

    Book Five exerpt.pdf

    Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!

    in Show off your speed

    Posted

    Admin,

    If you send me your email address to the email address I used to register at your site, or just email me, I will bcc copy you on selected email conversations, rather than quotes, with a Spectrum VP of Operations.

    Regarding downgrading:

    In 2021, amidst the pandemic, I was using a VPN and Tor to do my Dark Web research for my third and fourth books. Was also playing with a VM.

    100 Mbps wasn’t cutting it, I was also wireless at this point so I had that degradation despite upgrading my router to Wi-Fi 6 and network cards to wireless 802.11 ac/ax.

     

    So I upgraded to their 300Mbps service and saw no improvement. So I started testing and emailing results, writing and producing a song rhyming Spectrum with Rectum, and after several months of insisting that I was the problem, they (a VP) reduced my price. To me this was an admission of guilt.

    Meanwhile they say they bumped my service to 400Mbps. I believe this is a marketing technique to justify steady price increases and ward away potential competition in the area.

    Then in 2023 they sent me a notice that I have a free upgrade to 500Mbps, them not knowing about the whole letting sleeping dogs lie thing.

     

    So I started testing again, only now with Cat6/7 wired Ethernet, and could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.

    More like 90Mbps with FTP even then.

     

    I suspected that they could not actually deliver a 1000Mbps service to my rural area, wanted to prove it, so I upgraded to that and again could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.

     

    I don’t really need 1000, 500 would be fine if I could actually get it. There is no evidence that I can.

    Yet because of this corporate monopoly, if I downgrade to 500 I will still pay the same $100 per month. So I am stuck in some Charter Marketing Catch-22 bullshit here.

     

    Hence the pissed off nature of my correspondence, and my continuing persistent and relentless battle.

    Thank you for our response and advice,

    MFP

    Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!

    in Show off your speed

    Posted

    Thanks for your response. I don't know if I am up for all this additional testing. I have been continuously testing and arguing with Spectrum since Jan. I will think about it.

    I have ten computers, and I hate phones. Computers are a mix of Win7 and Win10, desktops, laptops, tablets, and a NUC, all with gigabit wired ability.

    Four are continuously wired and six normally wireless. I have long ago given up on testing wireless devices.

    Router is Netgear Nighthawk XR1000 and modem is Hitron EN2251 with 2.5G Ethernet port. Cables are Cat6 and 7 (at the router).

    Spectrum shipped me a SamKnows box but will only do limited testing and SamKnows Whitebox.pdf limited data, after first promising me log in credentials.

    So they are liars.

     

    “t1.st.chi10.tbone.rr.com Mean Average 931 /38.9 Mbps

    n1-fcc-chicago-us.samknows.com Mean Average 919/ 38.8 Mbps

     

    The abouve and attached is all can get out of them to this point, and they like to talk like this:

    "At some point we will need to agree to disagree that we have an obligation to ensure internet speed performance across the entirety of the world wide web.  That being said, we are testing both on Spectrum network and off spectrum network as part of the SamKnows testing we are performing.  "

    “We are following the SamKnows protocols to test the network we are responsible for operating which is consistent with the approach the FCC takes in testing ISP network performance.“

     

    So they invented this term called _off-net_ to try to defer responsibility for anything outside the Charter network INTRAnet.

     

    I did sign up for the beta however,

    Mike

    SamKnows Spectrum data.jpg

    MFP 6-12-2023 to 6-16-2023.xlsx

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