Comcast users...they pop a valve today?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:28 pm

Happened to do an online test..20 megs down from speakeasy.net's test sites.

YoS too.

Gotta be a glitch..someone forgot to clamp down after some work. Hope it lasts though.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:31 pm

Its very localized to the east coast for me.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:38 pm

Just punched up my RWIN to 1027840...I nailed 26 megs down.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:39 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Happened to do an online test..20 megs down from speakeasy.net's test sites.

YoS too.

Gotta be a glitch..someone forgot to clamp down after some work. Hope it lasts though.

LOL.. thats awesome!

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:42 pm

My ISP sucks A$$

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:54 pm

Let me know when it happens to road runner!

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:57 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:...I nailed 26 megs.

Damn Cat, so how many Megs do you know?

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:16 pm

Prey521 wrote:Damn Cat, so how many Megs do you know?

Knows many… satisfies none... so Bouncer says.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:25 pm

IMO if it runs stable on their systems and they find out about it.. they should leave it alone.. to me the faster it goes the more stable you have since its not longggg downloads or uploads bogging down the system as it is completed faster.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:14 am

Prey521 wrote:Damn Cat, so how many Megs do you know?

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:15 am

MadDoctor wrote:Knows many… satisfies none... so Bouncer says.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:18 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Its very localized to the east coast for me.

Yup, in the Chicago area- 7.5 to 9.1 down and 353 up in several tests.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:57 am

wohoo...glad to see there are no glitches with bellsouth dsl...spot on @ 2.8 mbps...just in case you missed the sarcasm here's a smiley for you

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:00 am

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16125455

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:53 am

Loonatic wrote:http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16125455

Cool, besides the bursts into the 15-22k range its now 10 megabits down, constant, not bad for comcasts basic plan

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:04 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Cool, besides the bursts into the 15-22k range its now 10 megabits down, constant, not bad for comcasts basic plan

Cool...time for people with older routers that can't handle the speed..to upgrade.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:07 am

They bought out my cable company and were waiting for approval. I hope when they get in they give us an upgrade on service. That sounds nice. What were your pings on the game server?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 pm

Prey521 wrote:Damn Cat, so how many Megs do you know?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 pm

MadDoctor wrote:Knows many… satisfies none... so Bouncer says.

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:48 pm

Izzo wrote:My ISP sucks A$$

X2 (Insightbb)

I was recently changed to a different backbone. The whole city was out for days! They are still having major difficulties in other area's....Kentuck, Indiana and upstate in Rockford, IL....

Any insight (sorry for the pun

) on this BigMo?

konFused · Post by **konFused** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:15 pm

damn comcast...i knew i shouldve stuck with them now im with Wide open West my connection still remains at 4303kbps down and 446kbps up

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:11 pm

konFused wrote:damn comcast...i knew i shouldve stuck with them now im with Wide open West my connection still remains at 4303kbps down and 446kbps up

I got double your up...but my down is consistent at 353. Comcast

I'll have to connect direct to the modem once, Stonecat previously pointed out to me that the router I'm using has been a buggy unit in the past. I better check my speeds w/o the router.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:10 pm

pff 4800 down 361 up

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:56 pm

Izzo wrote:pff 4800 down 361 up

Wanna switch?

Last Result:
Download Speed: 3768 kbps (471 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 350 kbps (43.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Rumor has it our ISP is promising speed increases in the near future. The CEO of Insight communications posted in Insightbb's broadband reports forums about the changes and offered an apollogy to all Insightbb users. We shall see.....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:43 am

Its alot nicer downloading a file and watching the KB/sec go up as the file DLs lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:58 am

Still banging 25 megs down. WooHoo!

crazyjw1971 · Post by **crazyjw1971** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:53 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Happened to do an online test..20 megs down from speakeasy.net's test sites.

Same here! I thought something was going on...

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:42 am

Heh....yet another bump up this week....for several days in a row I'm nudging into the 60's.

There's a fulltime thread over at dslreports about it..calling it "Comcast Powerboost"...Comcast is keeping tight lipped about it..but a few "leaks" do state that they are upgrading, and one guy that said he was a Comcast employee said they're coming out with a gaming package too. (yes it's a forum...so take it with a grain of salt)

Took this benchmark/screenie this morning.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:45 am

Found an announcement...
"yahoo.reuters.com/stocks/quoteco···01333443

Comcast gives speed boost for large Web downloads
Thu Jun 1, 2006 1:18 PM ET
NEW YORK, June 1 (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. (CMCSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the leading U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will provide subscribers technology to increase the speed of their Internet connections, particularly to help transmit bandwidth-heavy video and music files.

Comcast developed the technology, called PowerBoost, to use existing capacity within its network to a speed of 12 to 16 megabytes per-second on services which generally transmit at 6 to 8 megabytes per second.

It said the service will kick in automatically for its 9 million high-speed Internet subscribers at no extra charge when a customer downloads a large file such as software applications, games, music and video.

The Philadelphia-based company launched the service without fanfare in its New England region markets last month after a trial period. A company spokeswoman said it expects to roll out the service nationally by the end of the year."

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:52 am

It hasnt reached this area yet, but I did read about this a couple weeks ago. Pretty cool.