Comcast PowerBoost roll-out

[dnuggett]

Any New Englander's out there enjoying this yet?

Anyone know the roll out dates for the rest of us?


PowerBoost

 

[Amplifier]

leaving for cape cod in 24 hours, will confirm then

 

[j00fek]

not in maine

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
leaving for cape cod in 24 hours, will confirm then

Excellent.


Post some screens of a speed test if you get the time.

 

[Connoisseur]

Verified with one of my co-workers. We're supposed to have 6mbps in North Jersey. He clocked it at 10.6mbps apparently during the work day (9-5).

 

[randomlinh]

i want powerboost on the UPSTREAM dammit! I'm paying enough for it.. ugh... stupid dsl sucks here.

 

[djheater]

I had serious connection issues a few weeks ago, comcast did a bunch of stuff, including running a new line to the house and after that my old Netgear RT314 was no longer compatible... or it got flaky, anyway, I replaced it with a Linksys WRT54G and during the interim, with JUST the modem to PC connection I speed tested and got 12257/349 kbps.
Now that I have the router in, I'm getting consistent 10084/351 kbps

This is talked about in a bunch of threads over at dslreports.com

~~and I should point out that Comcast has been doing bursting for a while, making speed tests unreliable, best test is still a large file fast server download, like a linux distro or similar.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

They really need to work on the upstream. The upload speeds are terrible. I noticed some good speed last night, 1.4MB/sec.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

HAHA, the articles says some official at Comcast says the customers say the upstream is fine. WTF ever, everyone I know complains that upload is to slow.

 

[BKLounger]

i live right outside of boston and my download speed for big files seems the same as it ever has been. I'll test it when i get home and report back.

 

[keeleysam]

I've got it in IL, and it's pretty nice having 20mbps with boosts to 35 or so.

 

[Dulanic]

Im just south of boston and I just downloaded a 50MB file.... average 1300KB/sec

 

[secretanchitman]

11873 down and 456 up here in chicago.

and my family pays for 6mbps. not too shabby.