[GRLUG] Speed loss

[John Wesorick]

Yeah with AT&T fios you have to use their stuff, so you get what you get.
With Comcast I can buy my own modem, I've just been too lazy to find one
that works and I'm planning on leaving them soon anyway.  It's cheap, easy
and works. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but it's why proprietary
stuff sucks. Poor logging and visibility.
On May 1, 2013 11:07 PM, "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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