Comcast customers with the 250 Gb. monthly limit?

[techs]

I was wondering if anyone has seen their internet performance improve since Comcast instituted the 250 Gb. monthly limit?

 

[spidey07]

With new 50 Mbs Xfinity service it has been super awesome! I don't think you can find a better internet service for the money. It's just The Best.

I save a plenty, with Xfinity!

 

[PingSpike]

i was wondering if anyone has seen their internet performance improve since comcast instituted the 250 gb. Monthly limit?

lol!

 

[spidey07]

lol!

Most all Comcast customers have seen performance increases and free speed upgrades with docsis 3.0 rollout. And the new protocol agnostic network management keeps abusers in check.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

actually, it has declined. while my torrents are choked to >10kbps, i'm also seeing intermittent difficulty playing any streaming video (youtube has been problematic for comcast for years). i'm not seeing lost packets, so i have to blame the sandvine network management.

 

[Kev]

With new 50 Mbs Xfinity service it has been super awesome! I don't think you can find a better internet service for the money. It's just The Best.

I save a plenty, with Xfinity!

are you parodying yourself?

 

[AndroidVageta]

actually, it has declined. while my torrents are choked to >10kbps, i'm also seeing intermittent difficulty playing any streaming video (youtube has been problematic for comcast for years). i'm not seeing lost packets, so i have to blame the sandvine network management.

Your torrents are more than likely downloading slowly cause Comcast KNOWS you are torrenting and they are throttling your internet speed.

As far as Youtube goes...it just sucks...I have Charter Cable here in Atlanta and Youtube is 99% of the time slow as hell for me too...just overloaded servers I guess?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Your torrents are more than likely downloading slowly cause Comcast KNOWS you are torrenting and they are throttling your internet speed.

that's why i said it was choked

As far as Youtube goes...it just sucks...I have Charter Cable here in Atlanta and Youtube is 99% of the time slow as hell for me too...just overloaded servers I guess?

youtube has it's own internal problems, in addition to poor performance for comcast subs. also, youtube has no bearing on crappy performance with other streams.

 

[darkewaffle]

I havent been doing much big downloading lately, so I can't really speak to that, but I know our service gets dropped probably at least once a day. Maybe more when I'm not even home. I have never been too pleased with Comcast in this region, though I've heard good things from other locales.

 

[techs]

The reason I posted this is because I have actually seen my performance drop.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

The reason I posted this is because I have actually seen my performance drop.

in what ways?

 

[mugs]

It's 250 GB, not 250 Gb.

For me the speed was always way ABOVE the advertised speeds before the cap, and it stayed the same after they started the cap.

 

[child of wonder]

My connection at home is supposed to be "up to 15Mbps" but the best I see is 5.6Mbps.

 

[Oceanas]

It's 250 GB, not 250 Gb.

For me the speed was always way ABOVE the advertised speeds before the cap, and it stayed the same after they started the cap.

Same here. I don't torrent very much these days, but when I do, I regularly sustain 1MBps+ and with most swarms can stay around 2MBps (2MBps equaling 16Mbps, which is greater than my advertised speed).

In all honesty, it really has me spoiled when I use the internet at my parents or a friends place, since I'm used to everything downloading so fast. I get really frustrated having to wait more than a few seconds for something to download.

I guess I'm just lucky not to have had issues with Comcast.

 

[Malak]

As of right now, below average. But I hardly can tell because it is still more than enough.

 

[Zargon]

noticed no difference besides getting a warning letter in the mail 2 years ago

 

[Drako]

Mine is the same as before. I still get over 12Mb, with 16Mb peaks. I regularly stream Netflix and have not seen any issues.

 

[Terabyte]

I should run a speed test when I get home, but when I dl stuff, I sometimes see 1MBps.

When you guys say you get over 12Mb, how are you guys seeing this? By using speed tests? Or?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

I should run a speed test when I get home, but when I dl stuff, I sometimes see 1MBps.

When you guys say you get over 12Mb, how are you guys seeing this? By using speed tests? Or?

online speed tests are worthless

 

[Zargon]

i get 22 on my 12 or 16 plan all the time, and 5 up

via online speedtests of course

 

[Drako]

I should run a speed test when I get home, but when I dl stuff, I sometimes see 1MBps.

When you guys say you get over 12Mb, how are you guys seeing this? By using speed tests? Or?

Use a program like Bandwidth Monitor.

 

[OCGuy]

Same here. I don't torrent very much these days, but when I do, I torrent German post-op scat porn. *snip*

Fixed?

 

[Phokus]

With new 50 Mbs Xfinity service it has been super awesome! I don't think you can find a better internet service for the money. It's just The Best.

I save a plenty, with Xfinity!

You're such an unbelievable tool

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Fixed?

ewwwwww german

 

[Drako]

You're such an unbelievable tool

Is your meter out of calibration?