So I called to complain about my ping, and this happened

turbotoast

turbotoast

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They fixed my ping issue, but somehow I'm now getting double the bandwidth I pay for.
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Time Warner. They don't even offer 100mbps in my area.
 
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Lol.

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Yea i found out with time warner that they like to guess who doesn't need that 2 up 20 down they are paying for and shave a few pts because you know misses Jones down the street doesn't know better. I personally like to do a ping test weekly just because of this reason. It has happen to me and others im surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit.
 
There are loyalty codes they can put on doubling your modem provisioning speed :)
 
Krazy_fanboy said:
Yea i found out with time warner that they like to guess who doesn't need that 2 up 20 down they are paying for and shave a few pts because you know misses Jones down the street doesn't know better. I personally like to do a ping test weekly just because of this reason. It has happen to me and others im surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit.
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ALL home internet service providers do not provide the speeds they are advertising. Many will provide the speed for a few minutes or few hundred megabytes. But even in a situation where they have enough to back it up they still do a little throttling. Even worse, try to avoid known speed tests. They can manipulate known tests by not throttling. This is actually a well known case for mobile internet. T-Mobile doesn't count data usage for speedtest.net and even after your real internet is throttled to 128 Kbps, the speed test will still show full speed. Not much stoping home ISP's from doing the same thing.

HUGE difference between business class internet with an SLA and home internet. It's just like Google Fiber, your not under any scenario sustain 1 Gbps to a server, even if there is a 10 Gbps backbone all the way to the server and no other traffic. 1 Gbps internet to your door sustained is several thousand dollars a month, period. Your not getting that for 70 bucks a month, period. Thats the ugly side of net neutrality. Internet will be advertised at deliverable speeds which will be slower than previously advertised. However thats also why they raised the definition of broadband, trying to force the minimum speed up.
 
except for me. I get the 150 I pay for pretty much 100% of the time. My tests? steam, utorrent, and other various actual downloads. =)
 
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