id4rox
11-19-00, 02:36 PM
You're all luck. I have rr (upstate NY, binghamton area) and it SUCKS ASS. We have a pathetic local website (www.stny.com), the sites speeds say max 10Mbps down and 768 kbps up. When ANYONE in our area does a speed test from dslreports or anywhere, the max anyone gets is about 900/150. Still, ohh, 900kbps down, so over 100KB/sec, huh? Well, we dont even get that. the max download speed here is 40-60KB/sec, and uploads are 2-4KB/sec (keep in mind these top speeds are LOCAL, not over the true internet, which is MUCH SLOWER). Im a heavy gamer. My best pings I ever get are 150-175. A friend on cable 500 miles farther from the server than I am gets a 40 ping. LOTS of complaints on the local newsgroups. There are 3 RR techs (locals) that read the NG daily but dont post to help. They know we have the worst cable speeds in the country, so what do they do? nothing. Outages are experienced once or twice a day. once a day for about an hour or two, my pings will ALL shoot up to over 1500, making ANYTHING unusable.
They just started to give out the toshiba pcx 1100 docsis modems. the people who have them say they suck even more than the current modems (black cyber surfr wave modems). they say they lose connection 5-10 times a day and have constant problems.
Over the past 2 years of this BS I have determined we are the worst cable in the country. a rr user 300 miles up north on RR gets 3600/2000kbps (down/up)
I think it is the brainless RR "techs" in our area who are jack@$$es and dont know crap about cable or their jobs that are making us the worst cable anywhere. they refuse to do ANYTHING. I seriously think we need some rr techs from another state to come here, kick our techs out and take over to make the service halfway decent around here.
They say we arent capped, and that most nodes have under 75 users (they say mine has 53). The only thing that can be the problem is ROADRUNNER.
Someone mind posting to offer any advice that will work, since two years of complaining dont work?
Oh, get this. About 8 months ago, I wanted to trade in the black wav modem for the older white one (someone on the NG said it was faster, which I want, more speed off this ****ty cable service) So one night I went down (im 16) to the office and got a white modem from the girl at the desk. it was even worse by FAR, so I wanted the black one back. When I was in school, my mom was taking the white one back for the black one. The RR tech flipped. he was yelling and swearing at my mother at the top of his lungs "WHO THE HE| | GAVE YOU THIS AND WHO THE F*** TOLD YOU TO BRING THIS BACK" he just freakin flipped, which made me so pissed off at the "tech", he should be flipping burgers.
Something is seriously wrong with our techs and service. is there ANYTHING we can do? there are major problems here. Anyone offer any advice as what to do? I'm sure there are many knowledgable people here who can offer their 2 cents for our community with piss poor cable.
Sorry if I swore or anything, just 2 years of rage :/
They just started to give out the toshiba pcx 1100 docsis modems. the people who have them say they suck even more than the current modems (black cyber surfr wave modems). they say they lose connection 5-10 times a day and have constant problems.
Over the past 2 years of this BS I have determined we are the worst cable in the country. a rr user 300 miles up north on RR gets 3600/2000kbps (down/up)
I think it is the brainless RR "techs" in our area who are jack@$$es and dont know crap about cable or their jobs that are making us the worst cable anywhere. they refuse to do ANYTHING. I seriously think we need some rr techs from another state to come here, kick our techs out and take over to make the service halfway decent around here.
They say we arent capped, and that most nodes have under 75 users (they say mine has 53). The only thing that can be the problem is ROADRUNNER.
Someone mind posting to offer any advice that will work, since two years of complaining dont work?
Oh, get this. About 8 months ago, I wanted to trade in the black wav modem for the older white one (someone on the NG said it was faster, which I want, more speed off this ****ty cable service) So one night I went down (im 16) to the office and got a white modem from the girl at the desk. it was even worse by FAR, so I wanted the black one back. When I was in school, my mom was taking the white one back for the black one. The RR tech flipped. he was yelling and swearing at my mother at the top of his lungs "WHO THE HE| | GAVE YOU THIS AND WHO THE F*** TOLD YOU TO BRING THIS BACK" he just freakin flipped, which made me so pissed off at the "tech", he should be flipping burgers.
Something is seriously wrong with our techs and service. is there ANYTHING we can do? there are major problems here. Anyone offer any advice as what to do? I'm sure there are many knowledgable people here who can offer their 2 cents for our community with piss poor cable.
Sorry if I swore or anything, just 2 years of rage :/