Holy Poop

[eflat]

Have you ever heard of cable internet that fast? We just got a new modem from Comcast and my dad said it was way faster. I said he was full of shit but I drove home and sure enough it's that fast.

I kind of want to move back in with my parents now...

 

[Ika]

Comcast at 25mbps? Lies!

 

[drinkmorejava]

Lies.

At my apt. we have one of the highest signal strengths the TW guy has seen. We get 10mb down and .9mb up. Course, it's not comcast, but the best we could even get is 15mb if we upgraded.

 

[BigJ]

It's called PowerBoost. It only applies to smaller amounts of data.

 

[CasioTech]

mine is at a whopping 54mbps


:roll:

 

[yours truly]

i dont think its lies, theres a thread over at charlie oscar delta, and people testing there connections. theres a few with 20mg+connection on comcast

http://www.charlieoscardelta.c...storder=asc&highlight=

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[dman]

Originally posted by: BigJ
It's called PowerBoost. It only applies to smaller amounts of data.

QFT.

 

[Fritzo]

ADSL2+ testbeds are popping up around too- 20+Mb connections there

 

[GhettoFob]

Can you download the internet for me?

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: CasioTech
mine is at a whopping 54mbps


:roll:

ORLY

 

[conehead433]

Originally posted by: dman

Originally posted by: BigJ
It's called PowerBoost. It only applies to smaller amounts of data.

QFT.

Like the little pieces of BitTorrent? A lot of people would like that.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
ADSL2+ testbeds are popping up around too- 20+Mb connections there

But what's the upstream?

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: CasioTech
mine is at a whopping 54mbps


:roll:

ORLY

wireless...not ethernet

 

[techs]

It could be they pushed the wrong modem config file to your new modem.
Enjoy it.

 

[Gothgar]

that is pretty quick... I wish I could move back to my last place that had FIOS

 

[George P Burdell]

+10 for thread title

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Fritzo
ADSL2+ testbeds are popping up around too- 20+Mb connections there

But what's the upstream?

Usually around 1Mb.

 

[ScottFern]

Wait until you get to experience the other great Comcast tech, SandVine!!!!

 

[legoman666]

2.5mb/s ftl?

 

[0roo0roo]

now u can download linux distro torrents for sh*ts and giggles.. try em all!

 

[eflat]

Well, I used this site: http://www.speedtest.net/

It was consistently over 20Mb. I would love to download a torrent and see if it sustained that kind of speed.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Well, I used this site: http://www.speedtest.net/

It was consistently over 20Mb. I would love to download a torrent and see if it sustained that kind of speed.

Never. Torrent are not designed for fast speed.

 

[Muadib]

Now I know why my speeds have been in the 10Mb range. PowerBoost makes those results meaningless.:disgust:

 

[FeuerFrei]

I guess Docsis 3.0 modems are out already.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: Muadib
Now I know why my speeds have been in the 10Mb range. PowerBoost makes those results meaningless.:disgust:

Not necessarily. You should try either very short download tests which will work before the speedboost kicks in, or very large speed tests where the first 20 megs or so will be at the speedboost rate and the rest at your regular max speed (if the test is large enough the first 20 megs will have a smaller impact on the speed number, of course)