[GRLUG] Speed loss

[Bob Kline]

Good thought.  I have some mechanical timers
and could just set one to do this early in the morning.
It's sad to have to resort to something like this, but
maybe the reality is that much of the stuff does
depend on being power cycled periodically to prevent
becoming too flaky.  To me that suggests poor design,
but one has to just live with it I fear.  Maybe some
modems are better than others.  I'm pretty sure it's
the modem and not the router.

   -- Bob




On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:00 PM, John Wesorick <john at wesorick.com> wrote:

> This has been my experience with both Comcast and AT&T routers/modems. I
> actually ended up getting a programmable outlet, like you use to program
> lights, to turn them off for 5 minutes a day. Works fine then.
> On May 1, 2013 10:55 PM, "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since I brought up the issue of losing
>> bandwidth for the last 4 or 5 days, let
>> me add just a bit.  The downstream
>> bandwidth, using the speedtest.net
>> Detroit test point, hosted by Comcast,
>> has degraded by about 35%, and still
>> seemed to be going down. The upstream
>> bandwidth was more or less unchanged.
>>
>> What to do?  Why, power cycle!  I mean,
>> why not?  What can it hurt?
>>
>> Doing that, everything came back, and
>> the bit rates up and down are what they
>> were a week ago.
>>
>> So,  how come?  Other than the fact
>> that power cycling cured what was ailing
>> the bit rate, why should I have needed
>> to do this at all? Something to do with
>> the modems interaction with Comcast?
>>
>> Just curious.  In the end I'll have to
>> power cycle in any case in the bandwidth
>> sags again, but if anyone has any thoughts
>> about this, please post them.
>>
>>   -- Bob
>>
>>
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