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Cable Modem Primetime Slowdown - Myth or Reality?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-the-bottleneck dept.

The Llama King asks: "SBC (SWBell, Pacbell, etc.) is whacking away at Time Warner cable in our area, running DSL ads that make fun of prime-time cable modem slowdown. And Time Warner-Houston/RoadRunner does seem to be having a problem in the past month with nasty ping times between 8 pm - midnight Central time (traces submitted to internal RoadRunner news groups show the problem appears to be a pair of routers at the gateway to one of several backbones). While this problem is recent, it begs the question - are prime-time cable slowdowns real or a myth? Can a well-configured cable modem network avoid the congestion SBC pokes fun at in their commercials, or is it inevitable? What are Slashdot users seeing?"

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  1. Re:Little bit of each by AtrN · · Score: 5, Funny

    the best they claim for me is 128Mbps either direction. All that for $50 a month


    Damm, there's that "post from the future" bug again.