I Am Suspicious Some Has Uncapped Their Modem..
<div class="IPBDescription">someone on my cable junction.</div> I have comcast cable, and for the past month, my ping has been trippling between 9-11:30 PM. I have troubleshooted every possible thing I can think of. A tech came out and checked our modem's signal strength and put new wire connectors on the cable lines. It still has the same problem. I get about 2.5-3.0Mbps download and 364Kbps on upload on the speed test at <a href='http://www.speakeasy.net' target='_blank'>www.speakeasy.net</a>
To test something, we paid $10 extra to raise our connection speed from 4Mbps to 6Mbps. The download speed did not change <b>at all</b> but the upload speed doubled and is now 700Kbps, and this test was taken before the bad ping timeframe. When I took it during the bad ping timeframe, it is about the same.
My main question is, if someone on my cable junction has uncapped their modem, how do I find out who it is? Could Comcast help to track them down if it is that case?
Thanks,
<b>- F|4THeAd</b>
To test something, we paid $10 extra to raise our connection speed from 4Mbps to 6Mbps. The download speed did not change <b>at all</b> but the upload speed doubled and is now 700Kbps, and this test was taken before the bad ping timeframe. When I took it during the bad ping timeframe, it is about the same.
My main question is, if someone on my cable junction has uncapped their modem, how do I find out who it is? Could Comcast help to track them down if it is that case?
Thanks,
<b>- F|4THeAd</b>
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I would like to know how this is done... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm the only person within a half mile diameter of my location that uses comcast (we had to have lines run special for us cause they didn't service us, and officialy STILL don't )
So how do I increase my speed to pwnage zone oh great one?
Just hope something like <a href='http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Nov/gee20021122017460.htm' target='_blank'>this</a> happens to that person <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
HAHAHA! SUCKS TO BE YOU!
Sucks to be me as well. I have the same problem.
Who said it did? It's just annoying.
100 MBps Input into my house
10MBps at the router
10 MBps at each PC
This is SUPPOSED to be both up and download...
I dont' get anywhere near that...
i feel your pain <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
100 MBps Input into my house
10MBps at the router
10 MBps at each PC
This is SUPPOSED to be both up and download...
I dont' get anywhere near that... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well you'll never get speeds like that with cable/dsl. In your home network you could probably get close to it with the right wires. But the cables outside your house might not be in the best condition. Routing servers might be down, which means slower access to websites and such. Huge spikes in lag. Theres so much out there that really downgrades your 1000100000000000000 gbs in/out.
High peaks when people are awake could cause the network to slow down a bit. Such as with cable but that doesnt happen a lot because, well I suppose the people at Optimum where I live are smart.
And lastly from what I heard from A LOT of people - "Comcast sucks".
I feel sorry for that poor bastard, especially because he has the same first name as me <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If the cable subscribers change or bypass line filters it can easily be traced by Comcast.
all large ISPs monitor your trafic.
What is more then likely is simply to many people on your node and comcast sucking to much to give you another one <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
GG half of my computer's usefulness.
GG half of my computer's usefulness. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
foward the port(s) that bittorrent uses for downloading.
i have heard my friends say they uncapped their cablemodem and their speeds went from like 3000kb down / 400kb up to like 48 MB down and 12 MB up
of course when time warner saw what they did, they got a nice letter from them explaining their tos violation and permentally terminated their service leaving them with 56k dialup lol
uncapping is indeed not worth the risk, unless you buy your own cablemodem and uncap it before they install your service, then they probably wouldnt care and think it was normal.
my cablemodem speed is generally 4850KB down and 355KB up, no complaaints here <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
actually, my isp is cablevisions OOL, and i get 10/1 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> but yeah, they cap you if you upload too much, and people try to uncap there modems with 3rd party firmware etc...
Its really not worth it, i read a story about the FBI arresting some guy who uncapped there modem. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Maybe your node is saturated. Could be anything....
This could be a probabal cause. I remember when it first started happening, they said there was some down area in the Seattle/Tacoma area, and they didn't know when it would be fixed. Then I asked about it later and they seemed like they have never heard about it <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Do you know a source where I could get more information about the ATT router that is having issues?
Thanks,
<b>- F|4THeAd</b>
oh, and as I said if it is durring peak hrs that is simply ALOT of people ussing the same node and over loading it b/c comcast is to cheap to put up a second node in your area.
oh, and as I said if it is durring peak hrs that is simply ALOT of people ussing the same node and over loading it b/c comcast is to cheap to put up a second node in your area. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's too consistent for that to be possible, which makes the thought that someone has uncapped their modem all the more seemingly false.