my RR sucks... dslreports consistently says im 90% worse then rr.com users in my area. I need an alternative. Does anyone have any personal recomendations?

I'm in Morrisville

4/21/2006 11:04:24 PM

RR is pretty darn awesome here

Get your line checked.

4/21/2006 11:05:22 PM

its my neighboorhood, the whole street is whacked out...they have had 2 of those big green boxes blow out in the last month...

4/21/2006 11:06:47 PM

I honestly think you'll have a better shot at finding a better neighborhood than a better RR alternative.

4/21/2006 11:10:55 PM

lol thanks

4/21/2006 11:12:19 PM

srsly

4/21/2006 11:13:59 PM

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-21 23:15:04 EST:
69 / 289
Your download speed : 69 kbps or 8.6 KB/sec.
That is 98.4% worse than an average user on rr.com
Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked?

Your upload speed : 289 kbps or 36.2 KB/sec.
That is 34.3% worse than an average user on rr.com

4/21/2006 11:15:59 PM

just because I had never done it, and to prove that you can get decent RR in places:

Your download speed : 4502 kbps or 562.7 KB/sec.
That is 2.2% better than an average user on rr.com

4/21/2006 11:45:02 PM

mine was 23% worse, but im running cox digital cable. still was 3210 or something decent.

4/21/2006 11:47:55 PM

Your download speed : 4721 kbps or 590.2 KB/sec.
That is 7% better than an average user on rr.com

Your upload speed : 242 kbps or 30.2 KB/sec.
That is 45.1% worse than an average user on rr.com

4/22/2006 12:12:16 AM

mine in holly springs

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-22 00:14:59 EST:
4444 / 350
Your download speed : 4444 kbps or 555.6 KB/sec.
That is 0.7% better than an average user on rr.com

Your upload speed : 350 kbps or 43.8 KB/sec.
That is 20.6% worse than an average user on rr.com

4/22/2006 12:16:18 AM

Via a different test through a DC server

Last Result:
Download Speed: 4672 kbps (584 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 350 kbps (43.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

[Edited on April 22, 2006 at 12:18 AM. Reason : oops, double post]

4/22/2006 12:18:37 AM

I never get more than 10 KB/s uploads thanks to bittorents

4/22/2006 12:19:25 AM

my bittorrent runs slow as hell

4/22/2006 12:23:59 AM

Your download speed : 1352 kbps or 169 KB/sec.
That is 69.3% worse than an average user on rr.com

Your upload speed : 39 kbps or 4.9 KB/sec.
That is 91.1% worse than an average user on rr.com

>.<

4/22/2006 12:40:03 AM

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-22 01:14:29 EST:
4669 / 343
Your download speed : 4669 kbps or 583.6 KB/sec.
That is 45.4% better than an average user on mindspring.com

Your upload speed : 343 kbps or 42.9 KB/sec.
That is 5.2% better than an average user on mindspring.com

Another test: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Last Result:
Download Speed: 4769 kbps (596.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 287 kbps (35.9 KB/sec transfer rate)


Earthlink Cable over Time Warner's network.

[Edited on April 22, 2006 at 1:17 AM. Reason : d]

4/22/2006 1:15:03 AM

I live very close to morrisville in the western side of cary. we have BellSouth DSL at home (for about 5 years now) and couldn't be happier. My yearly downtime is under 2 minutes. You won't download as fast as I've seen RR get, but far more reliable.

4/22/2006 2:05:51 AM

this is the speed test the road runner chat guy did

http://www.aroundtownnc.com/speedtest.cfm

he said my shit was fine, but i know its slow!

4/22/2006 8:55:22 AM

doh still only at 3.9 way to suck cock, cox.

4/22/2006 10:38:12 AM

Quote :

"Your download speed : 69 kbps or 8.6 KB/sec."

Dude, that's barely better than dialup (~5.5KB/sec). Techs will intentionally BS you if they know (or can guess) the problem is going to take some $$$ to fix.

I don't know high-speed providers in the Morrisville area. Google it up, ask your neighbors/co-workers, etc. You can always threaten to cancel your service if you don't see sustained speeds of 300KB downstream, which is what you should be getting.

4/22/2006 10:52:37 AM

i work from home so i can't ask my co-workers

only other service in morrisville seems to be DSL

not sure how i can argue when they run their speedtest and it says its fine, although i know it sucks donkey

4/22/2006 12:17:34 PM

panera wi-fi:

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-22 16:18:59 EST:
1111 / 301
Your download speed : 1111 kbps or 138.9 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 301 kbps or 37.6 KB/sec.

4/22/2006 4:19:37 PM

Road Runner near campus:

4805 down
359 up


Oh yeah, what modem do you have (sorry if you mentioned, I didn't see). You might just wanna trade in for another modem. I did that, and ended up fixing some major connectivity issues by going from an old Terayon to a Motorolla.

[Edited on April 22, 2006 at 6:27 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/22/2006 6:26:59 PM

^^^ At the speeds you're getting you're being ripped off by Time Warner. If you can't get them to fix the problem, just switch to DSL.


And what the fuck, my bandwidth on campus is sucking horriby:

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-23 02:30:04 EST:
1246 / 2596
Your download speed : 1246 kbps or 155.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked?

Your upload speed : 2596 kbps or 324.5 KB/sec.

That's worse than I get at home with DSL!

[Edited on April 23, 2006 at 2:30 AM. Reason : ]

4/23/2006 2:27:59 AM

Yeah, a new modem might help. If your internet use to work fine, and doesn't, it could just be the modem.

4/23/2006 3:15:50 AM

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-23 08:42:32 EST:
3407 / 336
Your download speed : 3407 kbps or 425.9 KB/sec.
That is 22.6% worse than an average user on rr.com

Your upload speed : 336 kbps or 42 KB/sec.
That is 28.8% worse than an average user on rr.com



and im on a wireless router at 50%

4/23/2006 8:43:22 AM

I'm in the downtown cary area with RR

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-04-23 10:17:45 EST:
2763 / 357
Your download speed : 2763 kbps or 345.4 KB/sec.
That is 37.2% worse than an average user on rr.com

Your upload speed : 357 kbps or 44.6 KB/sec.
That is 24.3% worse than an average user on rr.com

not bad for being on a wireless router

4/23/2006 10:18:48 AM

maine.rr.com

Download Speed: 4793 kbps (599.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 360 kbps (45 KB/sec transfer rate)

4/23/2006 12:24:29 PM

Cary has a downtown?

4/23/2006 3:52:18 PM