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kjbathe · 11-07-2008, 11:51 AM

Do you have anything else competing for bandwidth with Netflix -- other PC's on your home network, an old 10 MB hub trying to manage congestion, firewall or router settings with excess packet filtering, voice over IP (VoIP) / digital phone that is prioritizing voice traffic over data, Tivo or ReplayTV pulling down updates?

I don't know about Metrocast, but I know Comcast doesn't guarantee either a full time connection or the speed of the connection. Sometimes it flies, other times it can be a dog. The joy of consumer broadband...

11-07-2008, 11:51 AM	#12
kjbathe Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 281 Thanks: 3 Thanked 21 Times in 11 Posts	What else is running? Do you have anything else competing for bandwidth with Netflix -- other PC's on your home network, an old 10 MB hub trying to manage congestion, firewall or router settings with excess packet filtering, voice over IP (VoIP) / digital phone that is prioritizing voice traffic over data, Tivo or ReplayTV pulling down updates? I don't know about Metrocast, but I know Comcast doesn't guarantee either a full time connection or the speed of the connection. Sometimes it flies, other times it can be a dog. The joy of consumer broadband...