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Funny, I used smokeping to run regular speedtests on top of pings to establish the cable connection in my neighbourhood was oversubscribed (daily slowdown to a
by avh02 4y ago
Funny, I used smokeping to run regular speedtests on top of pings to establish the cable connection in my neighbourhood was oversubscribed (daily slowdown to a crawl during work hours in WFH mandate, order of magnitude increased ping during the day time vs e.g 3 a.m.). Changed connection/provider and would consistently get max speeds and more consistent ping.
- colordrops 4y agoWho was your provider, and who is your new provider? I was having both bad connectivity to Spectrum as well as buffer bloat, which I think was upstream. Had to get Spectrum in three times, after which the spent several days up on the pole and in the field doing major work, and the problem resolved.
- avh02 4y agoThis was in Germany, using Vodafone (Kabel Deutschland), moved to "supervectoring" DSL and life was better (it's not fiber, but it's second best) - wrote it up at the time here: https://arahayrabedian.github.io/cable-to-dsl/ https://arahayrabedian.github.io/cable-to-dsl/ My neighbors still have problems with the cable connection.