Call your cable company. I had a similar problem when code red hit, I called and complained and they switched me to a segment with a lot less traffic.

Although technically I was stealing the cable to begin with, the cable company neglected to turn on my cable when they "installed" the modem...I called and mentioned this but they claimed that they could "talk" to my modem...not my modem wasn’t plugged into the line at the time. well I eventuality got the janitor to let me into the wiring closet and turned on the cable my self...not being a cable expert I just turned everything on and ended up with all the stations for free

Originally posted here by sickyourIT

kinda messed up, but it's the law on advertising. (imagine if companies could advertise a 100GB hd and give you a 70 GB HD and get away with it.)
Umm they can..check out the fine printon your next Dell or HP add, they clame one "GB" is 1000 "KB" and one "KB" is 1000 bytes, so you are loseing 124 bytes per k and 124 kbytes per gig it ends up with 16gig drives being called 20 "GB" drives

so yes a 100 "GB" drive is probably around 70 gig