[ale] Comcast Speeds (again)

[David Tomaschik]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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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>>     
>
I've begun to wonder if Comcast is specifically NOT rate-limiting
connections to speed test sites.  I know I've never seen 27 Mbps down,
but speedtest.net claims that's what I'm getting.  I'm paying for 6.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/162460207.png

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