For those of you who use cablemodems(good news)

[Labrats]

@home is the easiest thing to troubleshoot... I find it amazing that anyone on this board would actually need their help.... quit the fibbing

[VictorKaum]

About the bandwidht thing: in theory the bandwidth of a cable modem connection is higher than that of an ADSL modem... so pure looking to the technology: cable modems are faster in theory.

When you are in an area with lot's of people (many many many people) on the same "segment" (don't know if this is an English term too) your connection will slow down. This is many times used against cable modems in favour of DSL... but you have to consider that DSL also has bottlenecks. You only have your dedicated bandwidth (if you pay) from your home to the first node, then the nodes come together on the same backbone, this makes that when the backbone is slow, everyone is slow... so it could be that one DSL connection company offers in theory the same speed as another one while in practice their speed is very different. There are other problems with ADSL too, first you need to be in a range of 2 km from the node (for digital lines) and in a range of 4 km from a node for regular PSTN lines. second your local node (the BAS concentrator) has limited capacity, when your company did not made this capacity high enough, due to the fact that their bussiness is going better than they suspected, or due to the fact that they are lazzy..., then there's a real chance that it will be difficult to log on.

Cable modems: you go to a local node on a shared connection with other users in your immidiate location, when this gets overcrowded your bandwidth will drop, unless the cable company has provided enough capacity depending on the amount of users.

[ammo]

I've been on cable for just a little over 5 years now and it's been great... On average I get around 100KB/s downloads (depending on the other side) with better connections of around 200KB/s and sometimes getting peaks of 300KB/s.

I have only two complaints about my ISP/cable provider:
1- We have limited download amounts to 6GB/month and 1GB/mounth for upload (although I haven't been over the limit yet)
2- Upload bandwidth is locked at 15KB/s...

Besides that, service as ben ok, not great, not worst...

Ammo

[Ghost_25inf]

Have you guys ever thought to tweeking your cable speed? Also to tell you the truth cable isnt all that bad just make sure you clean your system out as much as possible and defrag your system so it can run at its top speed at all times. If you are downloading something and you think it is running too slow and that it must be that darn cable box you have, your wrong DL anything off the internet depends on the speed that the other persons computer modem is running at IE: (KAZAA or Morpheous) now if you are uploading and it is slow as **** then yes it is your modem but dont worry just disconnect and reconnect or just renew your IP and you should be doing just fine.


Now you maybe asking what is tweeking my modem mean? Well that consists of the value or numbers in your H-KEY and you can find more about this by going to google.com and typeing tweeking modems or cheater boxes I found it there too once. and there are applications that will do the job for you, But I dont trust them much. So I hope this gives you all an understanding on modems and how they work. Have a nice day.

[psychosquee]

I too, Use the Michigan segment of Charter Communications Pipeline, the same as stflook does. The really funny thing is... I never ever get speeds above 30 kb/s. I used to download at 135 kb/s and I was happy. All was going just swell... then the service caught on.... and as stflook said... they over distributed, and my neighborhood must have been hit the worst with these new accounts, because I have never recovered. And now I cannot connect to play ANY online game! Now I need help? Is my cable modem configued wrong? Is it in fact Charter? Or could it be my firewall preventing inbound connections in an attempt to filter out wannabe attackers? HELP!

[stflook]

Originally posted by psychosquee

And now I cannot connect to play ANY online game! Now I need help? Is my cable modem configued wrong? Is it in fact Charter? Or could it be my firewall preventing inbound connections in an attempt to filter out wannabe attackers? HELP!

Easy way to find out:

Turn off your firewall, and try to connect. Easy, huh?

[KorpDeath]

Originally posted by ac1dsp3ctrum
Can someone explain the concept of DS3 and what makes it different from cable/dsl modems.

The concept of DS3?

It's the evuivalent badnwidth to 28 t1's. Now you can have it all in one chunk 45Mbps or have multiple PVC's, etc. etc. it's a pretty big pipe.

[KorpDeath]

Originally posted by stflook


Easy way to find out:

Turn off your firewall, and try to connect. Easy, huh?

Well UDP protocol is best chance type of stuff, basically if it doesn't get there in time it just times out. Tweakng and other things will not effect you online game capability. What it will help is your download speeds.

Gaming should be done with very low ping times, so to assure best chance for the packet to reach it's dest.

I'm gonna have another beer. you go digest what i've said.

You need to read more. What's a DS3?

Please.

RTFM

[MrLinus]

Originally posted by Labrats
@home is the easiest thing to troubleshoot... I find it amazing that anyone on this board would actually need their help.... quit the fibbing

Uh huh. I disagree with this. My cable provider, Rogers (a former @home company/partner), has decided to setup their own network. Mind you, the instructions they give out leave a lot to be desired. As an example: for the mail settings we are supposed to put in pop for the pop server and smtp for the smtp server. Now, this may seem silly but DNS suggests that there has to be more than one pop and more than one smtp. Besides which, the rest of the domain name is missing (maybe its just me). Anyways, a few calls later and I get the full address. Peachie! Im happily surfing away (there are about 5 people on my segment... .. ).

Then this week I can't send email. Weird. I check my settings, Authorization allowed is checked because I know they are using "secure smtp". Now I use Eudora. Been using it since I first got on the Internet. It has to be one of the longest standing commercial email programs. I call to find out why I can't send. "You are using an unsupported application.. I can't help you". I tell him I know what the settings are and they are set as per what the support app is (authorized authentication is the key here) and why can't I send. "I can't help you because you are using an unsupported app". I ask to speak to the supervisor. Tech puts me on hold. Comes back and says "we can't help you because you are using an unsupported app". I say "I want to speak to a supervisor". Puts me on hold. Comes back and pretty much says the same thing. I'm losing my patience. He says the supervisor will tell me the same thing. I say Fine but I want to speak to the supervisor. Finally I get the supervisor. The supervisor, who was quite intelligent and adept, tells me that there is a bug in the upgrade they did recently: seems that no matter what program I use, since I am an OS 9 (apple) user I won't be able to send. OS 8.6 and OS X are fine. It's OS 9 that's the bug.

I told him to train his techies better to ask questions. Just cuz I wasn't using a "supported" application doesn't mean that they can't still support me if I ask whether there is a problem with the server.

So. Long story short: sometimes you do need help with @Home. The question is "Is the Light on at tech Support to provide said help?!?!"

[KorpDeath]

Wow. look at all the cablemodems..

If I could have a choice I think I'd get DSL. Amazing most here use cable.