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Posted by on March 5, 2005, 9:31 am
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I have cable modem, some times to get reponse from yahoo.com or
google.com takes some more time, how can I findout the bandwidth?. How
can I find where the problem is?. Does I have to call my cable
company?. They always says their side is not a problem at all?. Please
help me to solve this problem, appreciated for any tools.
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Posted by Rick Merrill on March 5, 2005, 1:18 pm
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santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have cable modem, some times to get reponse from yahoo.com or
> google.com takes some more time, how can I findout the bandwidth?. How
> can I find where the problem is?. Does I have to call my cable
> company?. They always says their side is not a problem at all?. Please
> help me to solve this problem, appreciated for any tools.
Have you powered off your modem in the last six weeks? Some of us have
had to do that to get the new speeds.
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Posted by on March 5, 2005, 11:26 am
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Yes, I did power off my modem and computer too. These are connected to
surge protector, I did power off an don on surge protector itself,
still some times even get a reply from yahoo or google, takes some
time, I am wondering this is cable modem issue.
Friend of mine was suggesting to change to DSL, he says cable had lot
of bandwith problems, if everybody in the neighbour hood turn on, it
slows down, sometimes it is like dial-up line. I am not sure about
this?. Does anybody have any idea?.
You guys suggest me to switch to DSL?. I don't know how reliable it
is?. Let me know. I also heard that if the loop length is longer in
DSL, again the data rate falls down.
Suggest me, I am looking for some tool which measures the bandwith of
my line. Appreciated.
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Posted by Bob Haar on March 5, 2005, 3:04 pm
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wrote:
> Friend of mine was suggesting to change to DSL, he says cable had lot
> of bandwith problems, if everybody in the neighbour hood turn on, it
> slows down, sometimes it is like dial-up line. I am not sure about
> this?. Does anybody have any idea?.
That depends too much on local issues for us to give you anything more than
generalities. In my case, I get real bandwidth on my cable modem service
that is nearly ten times the best that DSL offers (over 4 Mbs vs. 400Kbs).
Talk with other people in your neighborhood. Find out what their actual
service is like. If a local loop is oversubscribed, the bandwidth for
individual users will be reduced. There can be similar issues with DSL.
YMMV
> Suggest me, I am looking for some tool which measures the bandwith of
> my line. Appreciated.
>
Here are some that I picked up from earlier discussions in this news group
http://speedtest.umnet.umich.edu/
http://speedtest.chartermi.net/
http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html
http://nyc.speakeasy.net/
http://www.testmy.net/
I like the U Mich one, but that is close to me. However, if you are going
through a number of network hops, then you don't know where the choke point
is. Try several differnet tests and see how the resutls cahnge.
Run some of these. Also do the traceroutes that others have suggested. Then
come back here with more evidence. Also tell us what service you us and
where you are located.
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Posted by James Knott on March 5, 2005, 2:13 pm
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Rick Merrill wrote:
> santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I have cable modem, some times to get reponse from yahoo.com or
>> google.com takes some more time, how can I findout the bandwidth?. How
>> can I find where the problem is?. Does I have to call my cable
>> company?. They always says their side is not a problem at all?. Please
>> help me to solve this problem, appreciated for any tools.
>
> Have you powered off your modem in the last six weeks? Some of us have
> had to do that to get the new speeds.
That would affect how long it takes to download something, but not much on
the initial response.
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