Posted on Jun 16, 2008

Charter Internet Capping Bandwidth in STL

So unbelievably lame! I am paying for the 16 MBit down / 2MBit up internet pipe and for the entire day my internet access is capped at a modem-esque (well not really, but close enough) 200KB/s!

All of a sudden at 10pm, my bandwidth magically improves! The real giveaway is in the Azureus Network Status Monitor which is clearly showing the insane rate of TCP resets which Charter is performing on my connections.

Charter capping my internet connection

Charter capping my internet connection

My internet provider sucks, can we have FIOS please?

Posted on May 14, 2008

I Have Faster Internets?

Oddly different benchmarking results from speedtest.net and dslreports.com.

The new internet hotness

Charter just offered a new package and I upgraded high speed internet to 16Mb down / 2Mb up. It’s also now $44.95, cheaper than the old 10/1. I think this should barely hold me over until FIOS is available in St. Louis.

However Charter is still resetting about 15-25% of P2P traffic according to the Network Status Monitor plugin for Azureus.