jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Mar 13 14:06:06 CDT 2008
And now it is all working. But with Speedtest.net they have a history so I can show how bad it was if I ever need to. I think you are right, they send these flunkies who know pretty much nothing, they take signal level readings (mine was actually getting a signal a tad too high but out at the street the signal was waaaaay high. But that had nothing to do with anything that I was experiencing. He will report the street level signals and someone will adjust them, but that has nothing to do with whatever I was experiencing. It is just frustrating because I lose so much time whenever this happens. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:28 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Anyone out there having bad internet problems today? Seem to be a bit low for a couple but I can connect to all. Charter just loves to troubleshoot client locations when it is their internal problem :o( -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:15 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Anyone out there having bad internet problems today? Try www.speedtest.net When the map of the US opens try hitting several different places. For me (in NC) Lexington, KY is fine (normal ping, 10m bit down, 1 mbit up), OTOH Atlanta is 100k down and 10k up. I was getting reliably high speeds to specific places such as Dallas Tx but reliably poor to chicago, NY etc. Further if I open a dos box and PING google, Yahoo, MSNBC, Microsoft etc. I get timeouts. If I ping www.Extremetech.com I get normal ping times. If I ping 4.2.2.1 (a domain name resolving system) I get 14 ms pings. I had Charter's "tech support" on the phone for an hour and they said "uhhh... Yup... It's not wurkin" and are sending a tech to my house. However my "neighbor" about a mile away has exactly the same problems. I just thought I'd ask a wider audience if anyone else in the US is seeing these symptoms. I have a tech coming to my house but they won't find anything here, of that I am certain now. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com