Low and unreliable speeds at any time of day/night on newly installed Gen5

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Lizwrote:

Hi deserthaven,

 

Thank you for your patience and cooperation. I ran diagnostics on your site and nothing out of the ordinary is showing up. Your download speed right now from your modem to the gateway is 20904.626 kb/sec. How are you finding your internet experience lately? Is there something in particular you're trying to do online that's proving difficult?

 

 Liz,

 

Thanks for checking again.  Actual use has been about the same, sometimes okay, once in a while good, and sometimes pretty slow. I haven't run speed tests in a while. I tried to watch a streamed webinar video last night, probably around 8:30 pm CT, and it buffered many times, sometimes as long as 60-90 seconds or more, which I suppose isn't that long but seems like it when you're trying to watch it. It was an hour long video and buffered like that probably 6-8 times, this was I believe on a 360 quality setting. Now, this morning, (Sunday morning) at 7:50 a.m. Central, which would have been on my "bonus" data time, for the first time ever I downloaded a 220mb video in less than 60 seconds! That's what I was expecting and what I knew should be possible as it was for a while on the Gen 4 system. It has been taking 45-60 minutes to do that every other time no matter whether on daytime data or bonus data. Just a slow morning for congestion/usage? Probably so, but just a guess. Not long after that I was loading web pages more slowly again. I'd say to just consider this solved at the moment since I have a feeling I had a bad modem initially, and the rest is just congestion slowing things down although I would really like to see the speeds more consistent with normal usage as it's very frustrating to see 60 minutes for 220mb as opposed to 60 seconds. Or maybe I should say it's awesome to see a 60 second 220 mb as opposed to a 60 minute one......:smileyhappy:

 

I do think this system is going to blow through data much faster for the same activity compared to the Gen4 but time will tell and I am monitoring that now. If that's a compression issue then nothing to do about that it sounds like.

 

Thanks to all who have taken the time to respond and work on this issue. :smileyvery-happy:

 

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