Houston, we have Internet problems....

[AmEv]

Wow, I did NOT mean to start this....

OK, we signed into a 1-year agreement., ending this January.

Any recommendations?

[Cale_Hagan]

I pay for 2 down/1 up.

you are paying 55 bucks a month? by montana internet corp's website... wow. thats bad. but im guessing you live in the middle of nowhere, so...

[Drum Thumper]

you are paying 55 bucks a month? by montana internet corp's website... wow. thats bad. but im guessing you live in the middle of nowhere, so...

No, bad would be being stuck on a **** CenturyLink circuit where OCCAM is used and being capped @ 1.5 megs.

[Drum Thumper]

Wow, I did NOT mean to start this....

OK, we signed into a 1-year agreement., ending this January.

Any recommendations?

Any local cooperatives in your area? I'd start there if you can.

[Outlaw]

Is that Bridgemaxx from Digital Bridge? If so, is that a wireless your on? Could explain a lot.

Being a ~200mi radius from the test site, it doesn't narrow it down but if it's like here, there is a couple "major" (1 cable, 1 dsl) providers and then it is all the "crappy" (dial up, radio, cell). You either pay the ridiculous (in most cases) amount they want or suffer.

Is there a closer test location on speedtest? It shows you were ~200mi away which can have a drastic hit on your test especially with a 103ping.


My work.. too bad I can't share some, lol

Closest location <50mi

~200mi away

You can see how there is quite a bit of a speed difference even with a low ping at both locations. Now add the high ping to your far location and it's no good.

[AmEv]

^He is correct. Bridgemaxx wireless.


I think it's about $20/month.

The reason it's ~200 miles away? The closest servers are all about ~200 miles away each.

Pinging Google:
Pinging google.com [74.125.224.146] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.224.146: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.125.224.146: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.125.224.146: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.125.224.146: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 74.125.224.146:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 104ms, Maximum = 120ms, Average = 112ms

Tracerouting google:
Tracing route to nuq04s09-in-f18.1e100.net [74.125.224.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 192.168.254.251
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
...
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.

That address in the first traceroute box? It's my modem's configuration webpage! Is my modem preventing a proper traceroute????

[Outlaw]

The webpage is the router/gateway IP. They will be the same and shouldn't cause an issue.

Is the computer your on wired to it or is it strictly wireless? If it wireless, that would explain the 5ms delay just for the gateway.

I would just do a power reset of the router and an ipconfig /renew on your pc and see if that cleans anything up. You can also do an ipconfig /flushdns just in case that changed and your pc is looking for old info.

If I have done a large download, I sometimes have to do an ipconfig /renew and it clears up any slowness I had. I would start there if you haven't already as they are very easy to do and may be the issue.

Trace routing to google.com also brought up my gateway as well. That is how it gets out to check the route to google.

Good Luck, Hope that helps,
Outlaw

[AmEv]

It's a hard-wired 100MB/S connection into my wireless router, then another 100MB/S into my modem.

[Outlaw]

In that case, I would do the power reset on the router and modem and ipconfig /renew and ipconfig /flushdns then see what happens.

[billygoat333]

Blech. Bridgemaxx. Horrible, horrible service. (well, not super horrible for 20 a month for around here, but it is super slow and terrible customer service. )