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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:24:22 +0000
From:      "S. Aeschbacher" <s.aeschbacher@bturtle.ch>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cable modem connection problem
Message-ID:  <3C161716.1C479850@bturtle.ch>
References:  <20011210193629.98528.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hiten Pandya wrote:
> 
> >what kind of "mucking" could cause such kind of
> >behaviour?.
> 
> this kind of problem did occur to me several times
> with NTL (http://ntl.com/) in UK...
> 
> there were installing a Universal Shared Bandwith
> Router in their CO (Central Office), after they
> installed this piece of sh*t, the bandwith was
> throttled from 5.00pm evening to 5.00am morning,
> which was to slow down users from downloading large
> files i.e. Music Sharing and such....
> 
> but after 5.00am, it was all fine and back to 85.0KBps
> when before 5.00am and after 5.00pm was around
> 12.0KBps
> which is sad but was true for a while till users
> complained about it... (like me)...
And the problems went away when they stopped limiting the
bandwidth?

> so that is a possibility, or it could be that the
> signal you are receiving (cable modem signal) is very
> weak.... thats a possibility too...
If this was the problem, it could not be solved by deleting
the arp entries.

Stefan

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