A question for internet experts

**musman** · 10-09-08, 04:48 PM

My internet service provider is WOW or Wide Open West (cable TV and internet provider). I just got an e-mail from them that says the have upped my internet speed to 8mb per second, from what I thought I has was 4mb per second. They told me to unplug my modem for a short time and plug it back it and I would see the improvement.

So I went to two different sites that test your internet speed. One was speakeasy.com and the other was WOW's own speed test. I can NOT get over 5mb per second. I really don't think there is any improvement over the speed I had before.

Any Ideas?

**bob saget** · 10-10-08, 06:31 PM

try speedtest.net, usually people on here use that.

maybe call them to send a techie over to check.

10-09-08, 04:48 PM	#1
musman I Derail Threads Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: USA Posts: 976	A question for internet experts My internet service provider is WOW or Wide Open West (cable TV and internet provider). I just got an e-mail from them that says the have upped my internet speed to 8mb per second, from what I thought I has was 4mb per second. They told me to unplug my modem for a short time and plug it back it and I would see the improvement. So I went to two different sites that test your internet speed. One was speakeasy.com and the other was WOW's own speed test. I can NOT get over 5mb per second. I really don't think there is any improvement over the speed I had before. Any Ideas? __________________ Antec Nine Hundred case. Core I-7 920 @ 3.56GHz, Noctua NH-U12P Cooler, EVGA 01G-P3-1180-AR GeForce GTX-285 1GB, EVGA GT-240 Superclocked 512Mb used as a Physx card, DFI LANPARTY JR X58-T3H6, OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM 1600 7-7-7-18, Intel X25-V SSD, used as a boot drive, 2X Seagate 500Gig 32MB Cache 7200RPM in RAID 0, Logitec G-15 keyboard, Logitech MX-518 Mouse, CH Combatstick 568, Xboc Controller, LG L227WTG-PF 22" LCD Monitor 1680x1050. Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit. Speakers: KRK Rokit8 studio monitors. http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/media/customer.jpg

10-10-08, 06:31 PM	#2
bob saget Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Vancouver, originally Russia Posts: 23,133	Re: A question for internet experts try speedtest.net, usually people on here use that. maybe call them to send a techie over to check.

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