Congested node in my area. What's my solutions?

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Dylan_49

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After going through hoops to figure out what my problem was with major lag spikes during certain times of the day. It started to add up, after about a week of really evaluating what's going on I know for a fact it's because my node is overloaded with way too many people on it in my area and it is causing these lag spikes during peak hours of the day.

What can I do about this? Comcast wants to give me a new modem to try. Does that actually do anything? My modem and internet is fine itself...it's Comcast's overloaded node.

Am I forced to switch ISPs?
 
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What speed are you paying for with comcast? An 8x4 modems, real world, should be good for around 150 mbps, if right on that line or higher then a 16x4 or 24x4 should show some improvement.

If not it is like switching from 150mph rated tires to 200mph rated tires on your minivan that cant hit 90 mph
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bill001g

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If you have the option to change ISP. Normally that is not realistic even if there are 2 ISP generally the second one uses DSL which will not compare with a cable connection.

I have my doubts about just a cable modem change. If the newer one supports more channels and the ISP also has the ability to feed more channels the total bandwidth may be higher. I forget been a while since I read the details of how docsis stuff really works.

There really is no fix for this. Most ISP can split the segments if they really want to. Then again it only take a couple of stupid kids in your neighborhood running torrents to cause massive issue for everyone.
 
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I am still using a pretty old Cisco 8x4 channel bonding modem. ISP told me they now have 24x4 channel bonding modems. Do you believe just going ahead with getting this would possibly solve my congestion issue?

 
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Comcast told me as far as they know they support 24x4 across the country. So they are sending me a 24x4 modem.
 
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What speed are you paying for with comcast? An 8x4 modems, real world, should be good for around 150 mbps, if right on that line or higher then a 16x4 or 24x4 should show some improvement.

If not it is like switching from 150mph rated tires to 200mph rated tires on your minivan that cant hit 90 mph
 
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