Pgoodwin1 Posted December 31, 2013 CID Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) From near Cincinnati Ohio, I test using the Dallas, TX and Washington, DC servers. Download Speeds: - Over the past 6 months (or more) the average speeds during the hours from 2 AM to about 7 AM, I get good speeds - in the range of ~ 25 to 45 Mbps depending on the server selected. - Between the hours of about 9-10 AM until 12-1 AM the next day, the speeds have been getting slower and slower over the months. - A couple of months ago they used to dip down to ~ 8-12 Mbps during the peak usage hours. Now they are consistently in the 2-5 Mbps range. Upload speeds: they are fairly consistent and usually between 3.5 and 4.5 Mbps regardless of time of day. - Anyone else having similar drastic speed reductions during the daytime? - Has yours been getting worse over the past 6 months or so? I'm on TWC's 50 Mbps max down and 5 Mbps up max plan. Edited December 31, 2013 by Pgoodwin1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 31, 2013 CID Share Posted December 31, 2013 Getting colder - this means those old scabby lines, and their infrastructure is taking a hit. Generally water seeps in and freezes, torches nodes and plugs those leaky parts with a conductor. I dealt with them for 5+ years same thing every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted January 1, 2014 Author CID Share Posted January 1, 2014 Except that it screams pretty good in the middle of the night. I called them and they pointed the finger at "the Internet". They said I was getting connected at high rates and the bottlenecks were not on TWC equipment. It could possibly be more and more streaming video and audio, and more complex web pages I suppose. But it's getting worse by the month. A year ago it used to slow down by 1/2 during the prime time hours 8 PM - 12 AM. Now it slows down by a factor of 10 from 8 AM until 2 AM the next day. And it's virtually the same every day. And it definitely got worse after Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted January 1, 2014 CID Share Posted January 1, 2014 Yea I hear you - overloaded / old nodes as usual. Maybe they have been working on their infrastructure. But today, if you have cable, and not in a densely populated area in a rural setting, you should not see slow does like this. Sure I agree there are those times, we all see them to an extent. And still many school children are still off on winter break, so I can see this since Christmas. Pgoodwin1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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