[Cialug] OT: Need plummer - internet pipes congested

[Dave Weis]

It's tough in Ames because the Qwest and Mediacom facilities are so 
full. If you are in east Ames served by the downtown Qwest office, I 
would say OpenCom would be the way to go. I've got some circuits in west 
Ames that are working fine though and provide the full 7 megs down and 1 
meg up that they should. It depends a lot on where the problem is.

OTOH, if you get a hundred friends to all sign up I'll consider putting 
some ridiculous speed up there :-)

joshstrobl at hush.ai wrote:
> Mediacom is equally congested. I have to download the youtube 
> videos nowadays to watch them. Download time suffers miserably 
> unless I connect it directly to the modem...which would make a 
> laptop rather pointless (as I constantly take it downstairs next to 
> my fireplace).
> Anyone know of any decent providers?
> 
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:43:27 -0600 David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> 
> wrote:
>> Ditto. From a former (and never again) Qwest customer, you'll be 
>> much 
>> happier with another provider, if you can get one.
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>> You may have other DSL provider options in Ames.
>>>
>>> -Nate 
>>>
>>>   
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
>>>> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Claus
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 10:32 AM
>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>> Subject: [Cialug] OT: Need plummer - internet pipes congested
>>>>
>>>> Since the latter half of this year my internet bandwidth 
>>>> became really flaky.  Mainly in the evenings.  Using any kind 
>>>> of video streaming like youtube is out of the question as I 
>>>> have to let it buffer up for ever before it gets viewable.  
>>>> Even browsing sometimes becomes a pain. 
>>>> Download bandwidth test do sometimes show extremely low rates 
>>>> while upload is just fine and dandy.  Of course in the 
>>>> mornings, when I should be going to work everything works as 
>> expected.
>>>> My own test concluded it had nothing to do with my local 
>>>> network.  I pugged the Cisco 678 (bridging mode) directly 
>>>> into the phone line outside of the house and connected a 
>>>> laptop with my public static IP. 
>>>> Conclusion: Just as bad.
>>>>
>>>> I called Qwest customer service and the tech support wasn't 
>>>> very knowledgeable, backpedaling from any statement she made 
>>>> that could cause an issue to blaming my good old trustworthy 
>>>> Cisco 678.  She was nice enough to schedule an appointment 
>>>> with a service technician that came out on a Sunday morning.  
>>>> Certainly not a time I have bandwidth issues. 
>>>>   However the technician did confirm there was congestion in 
>>>> my neighborhood/CO.  He was stating that they won't do any 
>>>> upgrades and instead wait until Ames gets fiber (i.e. higher 
>>>> than 1.5Mbps service). 
>>>> He was confident that this will happen by Summer 2010.  Pipe 
>> dream?
>>>> In any case it does not resolve my frustration I have about 
>>>> my network connectivity and I don't see any viable options.  
>>>> The only other option is Mediacom and I'm not sure we're a 
>>>> good fit either.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running my own personal servers (Email, web, DNS for 
>>>> personal use), I'm on Qwest's AMESIAWS CO and use Freese 
>>>> Notise as my ISP.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything that could be done to resolve the issue with 
>> Qwest?
>>>> Has Mediacom become more friendly in regards of server usage 
>>>> and can I get static IPs?  Does Mediacom encounter the same 
>>>> trouble with network congestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>    Claus
>>>>     
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