Charter Pipeline and One ways cable modems

snipnipp · Post by **snipnipp** » Sat Apr 14, 2001 6:19 am

Hi everyone I have Charter Pipeline for provider and a COM21 cable modem and I get ok speed 50-200KB/s when downloading. And its a One Way cable, but soon I will be getting a Two way cable modem will I be getting more speed with a Two Way cable modem, by the way my connection is 512kbp/s Down, and UP 25-50kbbp/s.

Bababooey · Post by **Bababooey** » Sat Apr 14, 2001 4:42 pm

You will obviously get higher upload speeds but your downloads will depend on the speed package that you order. In my area Charter offers 3 different speeds, 768/128k, 1mb/256k, 1.5/384k and I think by now they might have 2mb/512k but the prices are outrageous 40$/$65/$104/around $130 respectivly.

jarablue · Post by **jarablue** » Sun Apr 15, 2001 6:42 pm

Yeah I just have to put my 2 cents in about Charter's pricing. I had 1.5 megabit access in SC for 30 bux a month. When I came up here and started using Charter it cost 309 dollars for it. Freaking joke they are.

dbnukes · Post by **dbnukes** » Sun Apr 15, 2001 11:10 pm

Charter Sux PERIOD!!! Nuff said!!

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » Sun Apr 15, 2001 11:24 pm

you guys are dumb. here is the deal(from a network engineer)

I have an ftp server running on a 56k connection, do you really think that you are going to get even 10kilobytes per second???
even if you are on a t1 line. don't think so.

yes the connection does determine your final speed, but in order to download at high speeds your downloads must be hosted on fast servers too.

Look i'm on a cable modem and so is my whole neighborhood , and my max download is 800 kilobytes per second on a slow t1(ftp)at work. My neighbours are getting(max) between 20-80 kilobytes per second. But that's because they are downloading from slow http servers.But don't forget they have the same connection as I do.

so do you see the huge difference in speed now even though it's the same friken connection.

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » Sun Apr 15, 2001 11:37 pm

let me rephrase that:

my connection: 512 kilobytes cable modem
downloading from a t1 line server at work = 800 kilobytes to 1 meg per second.

distance:20 kilometers(to t1 server)

price per month for cable modem service = 39 dollars can.

dbnukes · Post by **dbnukes** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 12:01 am

Point taken Carlos, but it doesn't matter because Charter still sux and they are nothing but full of lies and deception man!

jarablue · Post by **jarablue** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 4:11 am

Carlos I am not talking about the speed or the servers I connect to I am talking about Charter pricing 309 dollars for 1.5 megabit access. In South Carolina, Columbia Road Runner it was 29.95 for the same access. I max out now at 60 KB a sec whereas in SC I would get 300-250. Charter is a ripoff for charging that much. Period.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 2:15 pm

Carlos lets take another look from another netowrk engineer...

Check out www.pwrhouse.com Runs on a Dell Latitude (laptop), 16mb RAM >>DOS 6.22<< (ANSI BBS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, telnet, Web client, thick client, Netscape plugin, etc) on a 384 Kbps - 1.5 Mbps/128 Kbps ADSL line connected via UGate 3200 and TZO DDNS service. Screams for what it is. Now I would not consider this a powerful server by any streach of the imagination.

Point I am making are there are so many variables in what determines overall speed that we could go back and forth for weeks trying to name them all.

Also you should take a refresher course in communicaiton as blanketing a statment that "you guys are dumb" is silly at best. No one is dumb it is all about exposure.

...Steven