need a cable booster

[jdawg90 10+ year member]

10Mbps is roughly 1.25MB/s, thats fast enough for basic usage anywhere. My 1.5Mbps connection at home (180KB/s) is suitable for both XBL, steam, AND netflix at the same time over Wireless.
An MB is 1/8 of an Mb. So 10/8 would be 1.25MB/s

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Forgot to mention, try another router and see how that goes... Good routers can be had for

yeah, I know the difference between a megabyte and megabit, I just didn't know it was determined by capitalizing.

So since the internet slows down during busy hours, do you think it is simply all 20Mbps being used on my network, or is it time warner cable not being able to supply the whole 20 Mbps in my area/grid during certain hours?

Time Warner Cable is notorious for not fixing problems and deflecting responsobility; if it is the latter, would calling them even do any good?

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

It shouldn't matter if they are watching tv or not. if they are gaming it will. I live out in the country where I can only get 1.5 and it is not fun. I would check all your fittings and splitters from the cable modem as far as you can. you want them wrench snug. cheap gold splitters are not good either. The cable modem would ideally be on the first splitter as far as the cable wiring goes. you want it to get the most signal first. all modems have an internal page, usually at 192.168.1.1 . You want the forward signal to be +10to-10, the Reverse to be between 35 and 50, and the SNR to be >33dBmv. That may help for starters. I'll keep an eye on the thread.
I've had flaky routers too. Try it without the router and see how your problem changes or stays the same.

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[jdawg90 10+ year member]

na it was 192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1 was the router

 

[JoeK 10+ year member]

yeah, I know the difference between a megabyte and megabit, I just didn't know it was determined by capitalizing.
So since the internet slows down during busy hours, do you think it is simply all 20Mbps being used on my network, or is it time warner cable not being able to supply the whole 20 Mbps in my area/grid during certain hours?

Time Warner Cable is notorious for not fixing problems and deflecting responsobility; if it is the latter, would calling them even do any good?

When you think it is slow, use Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test to see what you are getting.

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

Are you able to see your SNR from that modem page? It should be between 30 and 40 If it's lower than 30, you would experience packet loss. And yes, a DSAM would be great for checking MER and BER.

 

[Julian 10+ year member]

Who is your internet provider? Some providers throttle during peak hours, like 5pm-2am. I know Comcast is NOTORIOUS for that, do you live in an apartment? They too can throttle your speed to keep you from using too much bandwidth.

 

[jdawg90 10+ year member]

I'm renting a room. There's probably 10 people maybe more sharing the same connection, but some of them are just phones. Most don't have computers and only 1 person I know uses it for gaming. I'm thinking it is on TWC's end.

.36Mbps during peak, 18Mbps otherwise

 

[jdawg90 10+ year member]

I'm renting a room. There's probably 10 people maybe more sharing the same connection, but some of them are just phones. Most don't have computers and only 1 person I know uses it for gaming. I'm thinking it is on TWC's end.

.36Mbps during peak, 18Mbps otherwise