Quote Originally Posted by Silencei2 View Post
What Alcibiates said about sharing a cable line with people in your area is true but from the 7 years I've used cable internet I've never seen a drop in internet speed during peak hours.
When I lived in Iowa I fought this issue for months. Turned out that during peak hours it was the DNS servers that took the biggest hit and would get overloaded and so they would throttle or disable my half of their network to reduce load and recover the server.
What I have found is you either have no issue or its so bad you can't do anything.