This may have very little to do with what you are experiencing. I also ran into a sudden and sharp decrease in download speed from cox about a month ago. I called cox, and they said there were no problems on their side. After some further investigation on my own, I discovered that cox had changed the name servers. The old ones work, but were very slow, and would time out a lot. Once I updated my network configuration with the new name servers, the speed came back. I found this solution by plugging the cox cable directly into my computer (bypassing the router/network) and restarting networking with DHCP. My download speed "came back" and I noticed the name servers had changed. Mark On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kenny McHenry wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >