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**portoskins** · 02-13-2010, 10:29 AM

You on a Comcast deal atm? We used to pay $20 for our speed under a deal. For a while they were offering it internet for $10 for 3 months. Right now it is $43. Might be slightly less cause we have the triple play package. Though going to put the triple play package under a new name, so that we can get internet, phone and TV each for $33 for a year.
If my ping was better, I would get 3Mb/s, but the rated speed is 15Mb/3Mb under powerboost. Normal speed is 12Mb/2Mb. Looks like you have the 16Mb/2Mb package right now they have on a deal. Powerboost bumps it up to 20Mb/4Mb

We have a new company in town that offers service. $57 for 15Mb/15Mb.

Only thing that I don't like about Comcast, is their TV service sucks. Everything else works good, and competes well with local competition. TV blips out all the time randomly and it never happens during a commercial. Pisses my wife off to no end, which than makes me mad when she complains, since I don't watch much TV.

Comcast's upload is pretty bad. (it used to be better iirc).

Yea the TV service is too expensive and the cable boxes are utter piles of garbage.

How does power boost work? If you use your 20mbps bandwidth for 10 seconds it drops you down to 12? How much of a time does it need to reset?

If the poweboost reset time is less than 12mbps/20mbps * 10 s, you could make an intelligent download manager that manually throttles your connection and gets you a sustained throughput faster than 12 mbps.

02-13-2010, 10:29 AM	#2
portoskins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	You on a Comcast deal atm? We used to pay $20 for our speed under a deal. For a while they were offering it internet for $10 for 3 months. Right now it is $43. Might be slightly less cause we have the triple play package. Though going to put the triple play package under a new name, so that we can get internet, phone and TV each for $33 for a year. If my ping was better, I would get 3Mb/s, but the rated speed is 15Mb/3Mb under powerboost. Normal speed is 12Mb/2Mb. Looks like you have the 16Mb/2Mb package right now they have on a deal. Powerboost bumps it up to 20Mb/4Mb We have a new company in town that offers service. $57 for 15Mb/15Mb. Only thing that I don't like about Comcast, is their TV service sucks. Everything else works good, and competes well with local competition. TV blips out all the time randomly and it never happens during a commercial. Pisses my wife off to no end, which than makes me mad when she complains, since I don't watch much TV. Comcast's upload is pretty bad. (it used to be better iirc). Yea the TV service is too expensive and the cable boxes are utter piles of garbage. How does power boost work? If you use your 20mbps bandwidth for 10 seconds it drops you down to 12? How much of a time does it need to reset? If the poweboost reset time is less than 12mbps/20mbps * 10 s, you could make an intelligent download manager that manually throttles your connection and gets you a sustained throughput faster than 12 mbps.
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