Cox Business Internet

[Michael Butash]

Another thing to check actually, do you monitor your outbound wan port 
usage on your router in any way?  What kind is it?

More often than not, when I'd notice my bandwidth lagging, I'd check my 
utilization at the cable modem port, and find one of my roommates doing 
something on the network, downloading, bittorrenting, otherwise 
consuming large amounts of throughput/connections.  If you have others 
in the house, I'd check what they might be doing too. Most wrt routers 
can do this, or sniff the network with ntop too.  I have shaped my 
roommates traffic down before.

With cable modems, your downstream can be highly affected by your 
upstream, where at times if you don't cap something like seeding 
bittorrents outbound, you can generate enough upstream bandwidth your 
downstream becomes impeded.

Depending on your router/firewall doing nat for your network, they at 
times have connection limits that things like bittorrent can choke 
easily, as do games too with mass amounts of udp packets. Oddly the 
wrt54g* variants are still some of the best selling devices still with 
only g-only radios, and are terrible for high-throughput with their puny 
cpu's and 2.4ghz radios, so I always ask.

Suspect your router/local network, your work probably has a much better 
firewall doing that effort to use the connection.

-mb

>
> On 07/03/2016 06:50 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>> What got me even considering this is that at my house, with 150mb
>> service and a few devices streaming and playing games my general
>> download speeds and browsing speeds become noticeably bad despite my
>> speedtests continuously showing awesome speeds.
>>
>> But at my office, with 50 or so other people using the same Cox
>> dedicated business account with 100mb speeds, it is consistently faster
>> than my house. And at the office most people are streaming music and or
>> netflix while surfing the web, despite all of that traffic speedtests
>> and general surfing speed is noticeably faster.
>>
>> My assumption was the dedicated 100mb vs my shared 150mb and I thought
>> maybe a dedicated 25mb would be cool, plus a bonus of ports I want.
>>
>> But you are saying there is not difference in the network makes me
>> really suspicious. What else could be different?
>>
>>
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