[ale] Comcast Speeds (again)

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yes, they'll point out the blazing speed, too, when you call to report 
an outage and the goon on the other end has no idea why, if, nor when 
it'll be fixed.  This is why I tell them to go pound sand when they call 
to try to upsell me on their VoIP.

Joshua Kite wrote:
> Thought I'd give this another test.  I'm beginning to be a pretty big 
> Comcast fan:
>
> http://www.speedtest.net/result/162324841.png
>
> On 7/29/07, *S C C* <scc4fun at gmail.com <mailto:scc4fun at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Ooh, me likey too.
>
>     http://www.speedtest.net/result/162240279.png
>     <http://www.speedtest.net/result/162240279.png>
>
>     Not quite as fast d/l, but at least latency is slightly better.
>
>     On 7/27/07, *Michael B. Trausch* <michael.trausch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:michael.trausch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:17 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>         I've noticed (again) that Comcast seems to have increased
>>         their customer
>>         speed limits.  Last time we discussed this it was about the 12Mb
>>         downstream burst capability, however at that time upstream
>>         was still
>>         768K (IIRC).  Lately I've noticed a consistent 2MB upstream
>>         (tested with
>>         their Atlanta server at One Ring Networks).
>>
>>         Results:
>>         http://www.speedtest.net/result/161159147.png
>>
>>         Anyone else seeing the same?
>
>         Hrm.
>
>         Very interesting:
>         http://www.speedtest.net/result/161167630.png
>
>         Those were my results from the speed test.  I like, I like.
>
>             --- Mike
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