[portoskins]

haha I started a classic my e-penis is bigger than your epenis.

I remember when this thread used to be about kbps and now its about mbps.

Soon it will be about gbps. Technology FTW!!!

[portoskins]

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.

[portoskins]

I nominated my town for google's fiber optic network.... oh man I hope we get it.


Then I shall have the largest e-penis on futuremark

[portoskins]

My link quality is limited by my piece of crap wifi.

I plan on picking up a free 802.11n router from comcast tomorrow.

[portoskins]

On a wired connection though the link quality is perfect according to pingtest.com

[yK2VgoEI]

Powerboost is 15 down to 12, 20 down to 16 and so on with their other packages.


Powerboost doesn't really happen all that often. Usually, it is when you first start out requiring a lot of bandwidth. It will start out at 15Mb/s and than drops and never really goes back up at least from what I notice.

More a long the lines of, you start downloading a file and get some super duper speeds, and Comcast goes "oh sh/t, hes getting to much!" and scales you back down.


I actually just learned about this
www.xfinity.com

and it is very interesting. Seems like you get slightly more for the same $$. Thankfully, for some odd reason, Chattanooga is becoming a huge hot spot, so we get it! Suckers! [thumbup]
Seems like I can upgrade to an xfinity package for the same price, get a few more channels, more HD content and speed my internet up from 12/2 (w/o powerboost) to 15/2 (w/o powerboost). Cool.


EPB is a leader in Fiber Optics, Comcast has had Fiber here for a while, though not much and now we get xfinity like a handful of HUGE cities just got yet we are so tiny, I really hope and think that Google will at least seriously consider Chattanooga.
Whenever Comcast has done their upgrades ever since we got Comcast at 1Mb/s download, Chattanooga is always the first to receive their increases speeds and services.

[SQiTmhuY]

I have no problems with Comcast,when i started with them I paid the same as I do now,my d/l speed is literally 12x faster now.

They fairly regularly bump the line speeds up without notification and without a raise in price.

I'm sure I wouldn't mind having a faster speed,but as it is I'm not exactly disappointed with a solid 1.5-1.7 megabytes a second download with bursts up to 4.4.

Especially since I live in the middle of no where.

[portoskins]

I have no problems with Comcast,when i started with them I paid the same as I do now,my d/l speed is literally 12x faster now.

They fairly regularly bump the line speeds up without notification and without a raise in price.

I'm sure I wouldn't mind having a faster speed,but as it is I'm not exactly disappointed with a solid 1.5-1.7 megabytes a second download with bursts up to 4.4.

Especially since I live in the middle of no where.

4.4 MBps > 35.2 mbps .... that freaking insane internet speed you got there.

[SQiTmhuY]

4.4 MBps > 35.2 mbps .... that freaking insane internet speed you got there.

Well,that's when powerboost kicks in,iirc the first 20mb's of a file uses powerboost,after that it drops down. But liek I said a solid 1.5/1.7 mb/s isn't something I'm going to be unhappy about either.

I get higher speeds than advertised for some reason,I've wondered if it's just due to the fact that this is a very small (2000 people) town and there aren't a lot of other people on the line with me.

[yK2VgoEI]

Yeah I can see that. Your average download speed is about what I get. Though I don't get bursts like you do. I think the highest that I used to get was 25Mb to 30Mb. Closer to 30Mb on good days. Though it has scaled back a lot. Don't really notice SpeedBoost really. Speedboost has really scaled back a lot for me. Might be cause traffic out in this area might be increasing, so they could be limiting its potential. Though when speedboost first came out, it was crazy b*lls fast for a minute or 2.

[portoskins]

I pay $30/month for that.

[BipiewExifese]

That is with Powerboost, so not constant throughput.

[sirmzereigMix]

Just to beat you..

Still I wouldn't complain with your's at home I only get 17/1.4Mbps for ~$50US for 35GB...

[BipiewExifese]

Just to beat you..

[ReginaPerss]

How fast is all that in MB a second? Like how fast do u dl? 50mb a second?

[BipiewExifese]

How fast is all that in MB a second? Like how fast do u dl? 50mb a second?

Around there. It takes a couple minutes to install a full DVD size game from Steam, those are the largest files I grab, otherwise it finishes before I can click open typically. Basically think of it like being on a gigabit lan but with the internet.

[BoboStin]

Around there. It takes a couple minutes to install a full DVD size game from Steam, those are the largest files I grab, otherwise it finishes before I can click open typically. Basically think of it like being on a gigabit lan but with the internet.

what does your company pay for a connection like that?

[sirmzereigMix]

Nice.



Best I can manage when there are others at work. The link is actually 10Gbps and I only have a 1Gbps adapter, and a laptop..

[BipiewExifese]

what does your company pay for a connection like that?

I honestly don't have a clue but I would imagine a lot although fairly reasonable since there is a lot of bandwidth in this area with all the tech companies.

[ViagraFeller]

I pay $30/month for that.

I hate Comcast...

I pay $43/month for that.