Part of the fast speed and then the drop could be caused by their "speed boost". It gives you a fast burst of speed to start off a download but then slows down after that. I have noticed the same thing as well. expecially if i'm trying to apt-get during supposed "peak" times. you are not alone. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm curious, has anyone seen speed issues with cox lately or in about > the past 6 months in general? I ask, because I have a completely > reproducible issue, where with ubuntu, doing an apt-get of any server, > on any mirror around the world, I get all downloads that start very > fast, and throttle down to nothing after a few seconds. Restarting it > goes fast, then slows like clockwork, literally to kb/s or nothing. > Same behavior occurs with FTP protocol for the apt-get's as well. P2P, > usenet, other bandwidth leeching methods work just fine, just anything > with static/single/long-term tcp flow connections seems to be affected. > I tried this from different modems on different regional nodes, and same > thing. I'm thinking im not the only one with this, and feels a lot like > buffering/queuing (problems) in their network. > > A little birdy in the know told me this is could be a more rampant > issue due to updates in the cox cable network, but I'd like to have some > other consensus/input before making an issue of it. Most windows users > I've talked to seem oblivious to it, but I figure I'd ask others that > might use linux the same way. I don't use windoze enough to know. > > -mb > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Kenny McHenry