Now lets see if we get decent speed upgrades...384 kbps up is horrendous...and their "6 Mbps down" is absolute bull. You NEVER get that, even in short bursts. With Optimum we had 5 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up...and it was actually that 99% of the time.
Wake up Comcast...your so called Broadband speeds are crap compared to everyone else.
The Comcast uploads are pathetic and I rarely get the maxed out downspeeds too.
And as far as traffic management goes, I think they're referring to that 200 gig/month cap they put on your broadband connection before they send you a notice telling you they're about to ban you.
200 gig/month is a lot of bandwidth, but advertising and paying for unlimited access should come with unlimited access.
6MB works ... rarely. I only get 6Mbps when I'm downloading SUPER-common files that are in ComCAST's local cache. It's a 6Mbps link speed, but unless you're downloading the newest version of Firefox, you won't ever see it in your browser. My guess is that the stuff that actually gets cached to d/l that fast are things like Windows Updates, iPod firmwares, and virus definition files. Nothing else would be common enough to have made it onto the local accelerator cache.
Plus, ComCAST has this ultra-terrible habit of throttling everything. I recently downloaded a 2GB file through Akamai (the iPhone SDK), and it was close to 6Mbps at the onset, but before it was 50% complete, it had been throttled down to less than 167KB/s -- 1.5Mbps. Sometimes, long-running SSH sessions are throttled so badly that the keyboard locks up for >= 2sec at a time as packets are 'delayed'.
To ComCAST: I have no problem playing nice. But tell me how much bandwidth I can reasonably use at a time, and DO NOT throttle down past some minimum speed. Introducing latency or "delaying" packets is an embarrassingly bad thing to do to your customers, and it makes your network look totally broken.
I recommend you go back to OOL. I have a friend who works closely with their engineering department and they have 15mbit/5mbit connections and are testing 50mbit and even 100mbit (although 100mbit will require DOCSIS 3.0). But yeah, if I lived in the NJ area or wherever OOL covers these days I would switch to them in a heartbeat from Comcast (which keeps jacking up their price). To be fair, when I first got the service some 5 or so years ago the upload speed was 128kbit... now it's 386kb but I think they should be providing at least 1mbit for what they charge.
Just wait a ~year or so (2 years for people that for some reason lives in a county that gets the updates last) for DOCSIS 3.0 backend systems to rollout and we will be living in happier times.
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Now lets see if we get decent speed upgrades...384 kbps up is horrendous...and their "6 Mbps down" is absolute bull. You NEVER get that, even in short bursts. With Optimum we had 5 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up...and it was actually that 99% of the time.
Wake up Comcast...your so called Broadband speeds are crap compared to everyone else.
The Comcast uploads are pathetic and I rarely get the maxed out downspeeds too.
And as far as traffic management goes, I think they're referring to that 200 gig/month cap they put on your broadband connection before they send you a notice telling you they're about to ban you.
200 gig/month is a lot of bandwidth, but advertising and paying for unlimited access should come with unlimited access.
I get 6mbps 100% of the time.
6MB works ... rarely. I only get 6Mbps when I'm downloading SUPER-common files that are in ComCAST's local cache. It's a 6Mbps link speed, but unless you're downloading the newest version of Firefox, you won't ever see it in your browser. My guess is that the stuff that actually gets cached to d/l that fast are things like Windows Updates, iPod firmwares, and virus definition files. Nothing else would be common enough to have made it onto the local accelerator cache.
Plus, ComCAST has this ultra-terrible habit of throttling everything. I recently downloaded a 2GB file through Akamai (the iPhone SDK), and it was close to 6Mbps at the onset, but before it was 50% complete, it had been throttled down to less than 167KB/s -- 1.5Mbps. Sometimes, long-running SSH sessions are throttled so badly that the keyboard locks up for >= 2sec at a time as packets are 'delayed'.
To ComCAST: I have no problem playing nice. But tell me how much bandwidth I can reasonably use at a time, and DO NOT throttle down past some minimum speed. Introducing latency or "delaying" packets is an embarrassingly bad thing to do to your customers, and it makes your network look totally broken.
Not everyone has problems with throttling, though. We pay for the 6Mb service and get an average of 1MB/s when downloading torrents.
I recommend you go back to OOL. I have a friend who works closely with their engineering department and they have 15mbit/5mbit connections and are testing 50mbit and even 100mbit (although 100mbit will require DOCSIS 3.0). But yeah, if I lived in the NJ area or wherever OOL covers these days I would switch to them in a heartbeat from Comcast (which keeps jacking up their price). To be fair, when I first got the service some 5 or so years ago the upload speed was 128kbit... now it's 386kb but I think they should be providing at least 1mbit for what they charge.
Just wait a ~year or so (2 years for people that for some reason lives in a county that gets the updates last) for DOCSIS 3.0 backend systems to rollout and we will be living in happier times.