If other nearby users can affect your loading speed than this would be a possibility. I live in an apartment complex and there are people moving in and out pretty often. Additionally, probably were some visitors over the holidays, when this seemed to begin or accelerate. I did hear a few new voices the past few days and noted that my neighbor across the hall had some children visiting.
Randall On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:46 PM, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the state of IT service so lacking? > > I know it's frustrating but don't be so surprised and plaintive. > > It's primitive because it is young and evolving technology. The cars you > drive that work so relatively dependently so almost anyone can use one is a > technology that has in development for over 100 years and even now we are > still discovering a terminal energy/ polution problem with cars. > > The internet: most people had not even heard of it outside the Universities > as recently as 1995. It's in it infancy. > > Cable wideband co's never even conceived of such a disruptive usages such > as bit-torrent usage (google it...) that was made possible by development of > Napster like peer to peer networking via TCP/IP. They have just re-written > their contracts this year to limit subscribers usage. Given a bit more time > they will have the infrastructure created to be able to monitor it as the > user level. Then you won't have the problem. > > Take note of what times of day and what times of the week you have the > slowdowns and whether you are aware of any new / young neighbors that moved > in about the time this problem started... > > People downloading pirated bit torrent movies can easily consume the > majority of the bandwidth wideband cable can provide. > Make a complaint to your cable company. They can monitor the situation > and if necessary control users exceeding their limits or alternatively > supply more bandwidth to your sector. > > db. > Ranbo wrote: > >> I really don't know. What would be periodic bit torrent traffic? >> Wouldn't >> the RCN tech have been able to notice this when I called Wed. night? >> >> However, mysteriously, yesterday (Thursday) I suddenly can access internet >> with IE and pages are loading fast again. Using Firefox seems somewhat >> slower, but also faster (fingers crossed) than when it really slowed down >> for a day or so (though in retrospect seems that it may have been >> gradually >> slowing down). I tried various things including changing the DNS and >> changing back to automatic detect, cleaning "private data" and defragging, >> but none of these seemed to make more than maybe a slight improvement at >> the >> time. Guess I have something to at least temporarily be thankful about. >> >> All of this is so strange and mysterious. Why are there not better >> built-in, automatic diagnostics for these things? If something - anything >> of possible significance - changes from time 1 to time 2, why can't my >> computer track and indicate this, with indication of possible signficance >> or >> problems? Why, that is, should the average or naive user be just as much >> in >> the dark about what is possibly going on with the operation of their >> computer and/or their internet use as was the case 10 years ago and maybe >> 20 >> years ago? Why no advancement in this area, at least that I can see or >> have >> access to? >> >> Randall >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:48 PM, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> I haven't been following this thread closely ...if you are on a cable >>> modem >>> connection it is possible you have some periodic bit torrent traffic >>> nearby >>> which is robbing your bandwidth. ? >>> >>> db >>> >>> >>> Tom Piwowar wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Called RCN tech support. Tech said not to mess with DNS settings and >>>> had >>>> >>>> >>>>> me >>>>> restore to detect automatically. Either way, doesn't seem to make >>>>> loading >>>>> much quicker. He said download speed (5 mb) was okay so he couldn't >>>>> help >>>>> beyond that. I'm about to give up. Have had this problem recurrently >>>>> and >>>>> can never seem to figure out what the damn problem is. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> What this tech told you indicates that this tech does not know very >>>> much. >>>> Try again with a different tech. 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