kom526
They call me ... Sarcasmo
I was talking to a buddy of mine this weekend and told him I've been noticing a little bit of a slow down on my internet speeds. He said he had noticed a slowdown at his house also and came to the conclusion (after some consultation with an IT guy) that the slowness was coming from his router.
I ran speedtest a couple of times throughout the day yesterday... 2.8 mbps down and 1.57 up.
(I pay for 15 down/1 up)
Hard to say how long this has been dragging ass like this, so I called metrocast this afternoon and after a remote reset on the modem and then bypassing my Cisco router we found that the router was KILLING my speed. The direct wire speed was 10.6 down (still too slow) and remained at 1.57 up.
The tech support guy said that given the usage in my area, I should be pulling every bit of 15 down. So it looks like a new router may be in my future, but for all you metrocast haters out there, just to let you know I was on hold for approximately 45 seconds and we did the troubleshooting, narrowed down the problem and scheduled a service call for tomorrow in less than 10 minutes.
I ran speedtest a couple of times throughout the day yesterday... 2.8 mbps down and 1.57 up.
(I pay for 15 down/1 up)Hard to say how long this has been dragging ass like this, so I called metrocast this afternoon and after a remote reset on the modem and then bypassing my Cisco router we found that the router was KILLING my speed. The direct wire speed was 10.6 down (still too slow) and remained at 1.57 up.
The tech support guy said that given the usage in my area, I should be pulling every bit of 15 down. So it looks like a new router may be in my future, but for all you metrocast haters out there, just to let you know I was on hold for approximately 45 seconds and we did the troubleshooting, narrowed down the problem and scheduled a service call for tomorrow in less than 10 minutes.
