My Internet problem that won't go away and getting worse

[Castout]

For several days I've been experiencing very bad network speed.

Funny thing there seems to be a pattern.
My internet would have great speed from around 4.30AM to 10AM. Outside those times the network is becoming almost unusable with regard to broadband performance. Today I coudln't even load youtube videos. No not streaming smoothly not even loading them up in the first place.

Speed test would show a mere 120-140kbps testing from London(while in the 4.30AM-10AM time period speed testing from London would give me 900-960kbps).
Even testing locally with a Server in my city of residence(Jakarta) would give me only 75% of what I'm supposed to be getting and I should be getting 1Mbps.

I'm smelling that they throttle down(capping) my speed what else could it be. My other friends are not having big issue with his internet while he lives and works less than a kilometer away from me and subscribing to the same ISP.

I remember when I had a chat with a particular Singapore based dissident. He was complaining about very very bad internet speed even when he's using public computer such as the public library computer. It makes me wonder foul play. And to judge with experience it would not be a surprise indeed.

And I am a Singapore dissident though luckily I'm not residing in the island(it was partly my decision too to refuse to go back and very grateful for that decision and I never forget to thank God for that fact)


I'm writing here just to let my resentment out.

Called the customer service as usual as I did yesterday at least to let them know I'm pissed.

[krashkart]

I don't think anyone is capping your bandwidth, Castout. I get the same behaviour from time to time from my internet service here in the US. Sometimes the larger entities (companies, government) need additional bandwidth for something; that's my guess. I've tried to imagine the reasons in my own mind sometimes; e.g. massive data transfer somewhere on the grid, service outage, upgrades, testing, or perhaps someone in the fishbowl went to work drunk and mistook their workstation for a urinal.

The simple truth about the broadband internet provider we have in this region of the US is that they suck. Even their cable TV services are screwy at times.

[kiwi_2005]

Were the same here your not on your own Castout. For my ISP 10pm to 7am is good speeds all other times is not that great okay for browsing but if im going to DL something its not much better than dial up! Those who choose the torrent package deal in other words during the day and evening they get the best speeds. I could go torrent but i have no need for it, I can't just join torrent package to take advantage of the speeds either I would have to show that im actually using torrents. Programs like Internet download manager lets me cheat a bit, without it im getting 40-60kbps with it im 200kbps or higher.

[krashkart]

^^ Oy

My stepbro works for the internet provider I use and he gave me a very good deal on their best 100Mbps service. I still get outages and slower-than-usual transfer speeds on occasion. Maybe with the new, much larger competitor that just moved into the region I will begin to see better service. *pray*

[Castout]

Oh well just that I usually get good stable speed until afternoon. It's just so annoying that now my internet would only be broadband for 5 hours from 4.30AM to 10AM.

But I suppose some govt agency needing large bandwidth may explain the slowdown since it's also that bad even 2.30 in the morning until 4.30AM.

My ISP is upgrading their bandwidth and I upgraded my connection speed to 1.5Mbps too. I hope I would see some improvement with the upgrade. It's just that a friend of mine is not having big issue with his internet at all and he works and lives less than a kilometer from me.

Yesterday my ISP technician called up to ask about my internet problem and half jokingly he mentioned that it was up to 1Mbps and not always 1Mbps.
I would answer him the next time that it's only fair if we pay UP TO certain money too and not always certain amount, depending on the average speed we're getting .

I could live even with 30% of maximum connection speed especially during crowded times but to get a mere 12% of speed is RUBBISH at any time. It's like when a person is having an IQ of 250 and he only uses 25 of it daily.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Castout

I would answer him the next time that it's only fair if we pay UP TO certain money too and not always certain amount, depending on the average speed we're getting .

I like your line of thinking, Castout.