Off and on for the past several weeks my speed, which is supposed to be a 6Mbps DSL connection, has been about .3 to .5 Mbps, usually from the hours of 5 or 6 pm until midnight. This week it has been several nights in a row, and I called about the issue last week, they sent a tech out the next morning who left me a note saying it checked out fine outside, it must be in the house wiring.
Of course it checked out fine, this morning I checked my speed and got about 6.2 Mbps, actually slightly above. However, this evening I am back down to about .3 or .4, my ping to the closest server is 140ms on speedtest.net and centurylink's own test cant get me above 1.5Mbps. If you look at a graph of the speed or watch the indicator, the speed is very very random.
if it were my interior wiring, why would it only have problems when internet usage peaks?
Should I just buy a cable modem and switch to Charter?, its the only other service available here.
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