Frank, I have never used Insight for my computer... they annoy me enough as my cable TV provider. I find getting through to anyone can be extremely frustrating at times. I do use BellSouth DSL, and have never had any problems with their service. My downloads are fast, and always work fine. I haven't timed it for awhile; last time I did it was way up there in speed... I'm happy. The only thing I don't like is paying my monthly bill for it... guess there has to be a catch somewhere.
Mike On Monday, July 12, 2004, at 10:29 PM, Frank Hammitt wrote: > My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to > a dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test > indicated a reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can?t see how that it is > accurate) but in reality, all web pages are loading slowly. I feel > something is afoot with the the broadband supplier. I had a better > connection in a north central Mexico Hampton Inn last week. > > An inquiry call to Insight Broadband yielded a 26 minute wait that > terminated in me hanging up before they responded. At least I didn?t > have to listen to the inane babbling of Bob Sokoler (sp) and Terry > Minor encouraging me to sign up for more services. > > How are those of you on DSL faring? I am considering a switch. > > FH > ? > On 7/12/04 9:42 PM, "Bill Rising" <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > I'm sitting here trying to learn some Good Stuff while listening to > music from my computer at work (via the nice, old iTunes 4.0). For the > first time I can remember, the stream is choppy enough that the music > is interrupted every, oh, 10 seconds, max. Really *&^$)(*&^! annoying. > > I logged into the machine at work, and saw that it is running its usual > processes. Nothing nasty. > > I went to download a file via sftp (secure file transfer protocol), and > saw that the transfer rate was a measly 25KB/sec. It normally is > roughly 330KB/sec. I checked again, and it was down to 15KB/sec. (B for > Byte, not b for bit) This is really pitiful - no wonder iTunes was > choking. > > I went and downloaded some game from versiontracker (something big > enough to be able to measure the time), and found that I was getting > about 100KB/sec. > > Anyone know any tricks for trying to find out where the slowdown might > be? > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2849 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040713/30bf5de3/attachment.bin
