The Chad
Well-Known Member
Hey,
I have Time Warner cable internet, and I believe my download is 7 meg. This is all fine and dandy, and I'm always happy with my speed. But lately, I've had a couple of issues. When watching streaming content from Hulu in the 480i format (the high quality), or when I'm maxing out my download bandwidth (approx 800kBps) my cable modem loses it's connection. It'll disconnect, then when the modem attempts to reconnect, it reconnects with no problem. So it's like an outage, but isn't.
I've heard of ISPs dropping packets and just throttling speeds, but this seems like a pretty destructive way of controlling bandwidth. Is it throttling?
600kBps consistently doesn't give me a problem, only when I enter the 700-800 range do I get problems.
If so, is there a way I can cap my download bandwidth about 10% below this limit? BitTorrent and some downloads are easily resumable (even though I have to manually restart some downloads), but other downloads cannot be resumed and I would rather have a consistent slower speed than having to restart downloads. Also, with Hulu, losing your internet connection apparently sets of a DRM alarm in the software, and I actually have to basically reboot my Mac for the video to work again on Hulu.
It's frustrating to say the least.
I have Time Warner cable internet, and I believe my download is 7 meg. This is all fine and dandy, and I'm always happy with my speed. But lately, I've had a couple of issues. When watching streaming content from Hulu in the 480i format (the high quality), or when I'm maxing out my download bandwidth (approx 800kBps) my cable modem loses it's connection. It'll disconnect, then when the modem attempts to reconnect, it reconnects with no problem. So it's like an outage, but isn't.
I've heard of ISPs dropping packets and just throttling speeds, but this seems like a pretty destructive way of controlling bandwidth. Is it throttling?
600kBps consistently doesn't give me a problem, only when I enter the 700-800 range do I get problems.
If so, is there a way I can cap my download bandwidth about 10% below this limit? BitTorrent and some downloads are easily resumable (even though I have to manually restart some downloads), but other downloads cannot be resumed and I would rather have a consistent slower speed than having to restart downloads. Also, with Hulu, losing your internet connection apparently sets of a DRM alarm in the software, and I actually have to basically reboot my Mac for the video to work again on Hulu.
It's frustrating to say the least.