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  1. 1. Are you being throttled by your ISP?

    • Yes
      63
    • No
      217

  2. 2. What is your ISP?

    • Comcast
      40
    • Verizon
      22
    • Time Warner Cable
      27
    • Charter
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    • Other
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Wow.  This website has shown me that I actually am getting more speed than I am paying for.  Schweet.

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On 20/05/2016 at 11:08 AM, NinerL said:

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I'm getting full speeds.

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Fast: 74

Speedtest: 74,5

What I actually have: 75.

 

No trotteling, but I live in Norway and not USA...

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200 on Fast vs 800 on SpeedTest, living in Romania. Also tested with some random server in NY, got 35 down on SpeedTest xD

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Good luck getting your ISP to give a shit.

 

I've filed three FCC reports against Century Link, for their continued throttling (they claim bandwidth exhaustion) and nothing has come of it. They sent me a little letter stating that the issue should be resolved in april or may, now it's june and the problem persists.

 

We need to just make the ISP infrastructure a public utility. Companies can't be trusted to actually do their fucking jobs.

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I'm not going to vote because I'm in Canada and I think throttling is now illegal here but the answer is no.

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Why does it matter that they throttle you on netflix? You don't need more than like 5 down to watch HD.

 

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To my surprise I'm not getting throttled, nice find.


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7 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Good luck getting your ISP to give a shit.

 

I've filed three FCC reports against Century Link, for their continued throttling (they claim bandwidth exhaustion) and nothing has come of it. They sent me a little letter stating that the issue should be resolved in april or may, now it's june and the problem persists.

 

We need to just make the ISP infrastructure a public utility. Companies can't be trusted to actually do their fucking jobs.

if you want it to be fixed so quickly they offer a free upgrade i did this to optimum where i am awhile back    contact your senator/house of representative   for your area have them look into it and  ask century link  whats taking so long  and watch the fireworks go off . i give it a week after they receive the letter or phone call , verizion, comcast hate when one of the two houses contact them . if they also have CT  show him/her and you will still get yours fixed  if there throttling them also  . its not the quickest but they will never touch your account again for stupid shit , one but on here  if you have a data cap on your account your SOL then .

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im good. 36 fast, 37 speedtest

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Nice.  Hopefully this puts some pressure on them.  I've seen other sneaky tricks to set a precedent for this kind of behaviour being acceptable from our ISP - if you subscribe to a certain online streaming service (like netflix for TV shows) they won't count that traffic toward your monthly total.  That sounds great until you realize it's the same principle - treating some traffic different from others.  I hope people have the will power to resist crap like this and send a message to the ISPs.

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3 hours ago, gamerking said:

if you want it to be fixed so quickly they offer a free upgrade i did this to optimum where i am awhile back    contact your senator/house of representative   for your area have them look into it and  ask century link  whats taking so long  and watch the fireworks go off . i give it a week after they receive the letter or phone call , verizion, comcast hate when one of the two houses contact them . if they also have CT  show him/her and you will still get yours fixed  if there throttling them also  . its not the quickest but they will never touch your account again for stupid shit , one but on here  if you have a data cap on your account your SOL then .

As far as I know, we have no datacaps. We're supposed to be getting upgraded to 20Mbps sooner or later. Chances are they will just increase the bandwidth, and once again oversell their service.

 

Gonna try contacting my local member of congress, as well as state general assembly "representative". Sadly they're all republicans, so I'll be lucky to get anything other than a standard pre-written response letter

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reading the thread is depressing i only get 1.3Mbps on fast and and 1.9 on speedtest and youtube videos wont go over 1. i should get 2Mbps.

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I'm getting 38 on fast and 30 on speedtest using Xfinity.

 

Well played.

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I don't understand internet. Paying for 75/75 (Verizon). Get 85/90 from 60 feet away. Get 80/80 on ethernet.

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I'm paying for 75Mbps...and getting 90.

 

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4 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

As far as I know, we have no datacaps. We're supposed to be getting upgraded to 20Mbps sooner or later. Chances are they will just increase the bandwidth, and once again oversell their service.

 

Gonna try contacting my local member of congress, as well as state general assembly "representative". Sadly they're all republicans, so I'll be lucky to get anything other than a standard pre-written response letter

you have to go in person to where they have their office  sending a letter they dont do nada. in person you will get results 

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7 hours ago, gamerking said:

you have to go in person to where they have their office  sending a letter they dont do nada. in person you will get results 

Good to know.

 

Now if only I can figure out how one actually meets with their state legislators in person. Everything I've ever been told leads me to believe that they are perpetually in meetings or at lunch.

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On 5/20/2016 at 7:53 PM, nims0c said:

No throttling with Rogers in Canada.

Same here. In fact, Rogers for me gives me more than my plan (250/20). I get around 300 on fast.com and 327 on speedtest (average is 270 during peak/a lot of users on the network). This is actually due to the fact that the people on my street still uses Bell so the Rogers line is basically open.

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One thing everyone should keep in mind is that your ISP isn't going to put a constant limit on your speed, they'll throttle your connection during peak hours(usually in the evening after people get off work).  This has been the case for me with TimeWarner, Insight, and At&t Uverse.  

 

It drives me nut's because the only time I can use my home internet is during peak hours.

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Wow, I thought Netflix was smarter than this. I feel sorry for people who won't understand how the internet works and get mad at their ISPs over this.

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53 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Wow, I thought Netflix was smarter than this. I feel sorry for people who won't understand how the internet works and get mad at their ISPs over this.

If people are not receiving even close to the speed they paid for, that is problematic.  It has nothing to do with "how the Internet works".  Obviously, someone across the world will receive a slower test result if the server is US-based.  If the server is local and they still receive slow speeds, that could be an indication of throttling and is worth investigating.

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