Hey Head-Case, what's your bandwidth like?

[HeadphoneAddict]

Comcast home service, at home.

Edited November 14, 2012 by HeadphoneAddict

[Salt Peanuts]

Decided to pay $5 extra to more than triple the download speed and quintuple the upload speed.

[jvlgato]

Wow! I'll have to look into that with my AT&T Uverse plan.

[Tyll Hertsens]

My new Internet at the house in Falls Church.

WTF. You need that bandwidth to teleport yourself or something!?

From myt back porch wifi. This is about 3x better download and 20x better upload since I switched to Optimum.

(You'll notice I've been able to do HD on my videos now.)

Edited November 17, 2012 by Tyll Hertsens

[Knuckledragger]

So apparently my ISP has been screwing me for AGES by charging me an extra $12 a month and charging me for the 30Mbps rate while giving me 15Mbps.

I just got off the phone with them and now my connection looks like this:

[Grahame]

Thanks to This (on a black friday deal)

I have access to shareable PAYG data, for when I'm not in the wi-fi cloud at work, or home.

Not bad data rates when all the bars were lit up either

Edited December 6, 2012 by Grahame

[grawk]

[jvlgato]

Wow! Visiting Iceland for the holidays?

[The Monkey]

Slow today.  Wii U Setups?

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Meh, fuck you both.

 

Although, I have to admit, mine seems to be a step up from the usual 'paltry' to 'adequate', and that's with Spotify streaming continuously:

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

Just got FiOS installed at the office, it's so much nicer than the Verizon 4G Mifi we'd been using for the last 8 months!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I remember when that would have been faster than 99% of the US.

[shellylh]

I need to get back home.  I can't stand these slow download speeds any longer. 

 

[luvdunhill]

read 'em and weep:

 

[naamanf]

read 'em and weep:

 

Should be happy about it, imperialist pig.

[raffy]

Beat this!

 

[luvdunhill]

you are the 1%.

[jvlgato]

Really great latency!

[Dusty Chalk]

Actually, he's the 29%.

[Grahame]

Comcast claimed this in an email this morning

 

Dear Valued Customer, 

Great news! We've increased your Internet speed! 

Now the download speed on your Performance Internet service is up to 66% faster with speeds up to 25 Mbps and we have more than doubled your upload speeds up to 5 Mbps.

 

for once they may not be speaking with forked tongue.

 

And all without a cable modem reboot.

 

[mikeymad]

About the same results here Grahame...

 

 

But not much up from my old results 1.5 years ago..

 

 

 

 

Speed up a tick... upload up most. with ping getting much better

 

 

I don't complain too much these days, because they don't ding me on my usage.

Edited March 24, 2013 by mikeymad

[VPI]

Comcast must have stolen some bandwidth from Verizon as my speeds are down.

 

[tkam]

Grahame that looks like good news, Comcast did the free speed upgrades for some of us on the East Coast last year and it sounds like they are rolling out the to the rest of the country now.  When I first signed up I was on the Blast! plan which I think was 25 down 5 up.  They raised it up to 50 down 10 up last year and as can be seen in the test below I do see higher than 50 down on occasion.

[Dusty Chalk]

Wowzers, 75?!?!?  Meso upgraded only to 51/11:

 

[The Monkey]

My old Airport Extreme bit the dust last night (power supply). So I went to the Apple store to pick up the new version and be tempted by the Mini Retina. Unbelievably, I did not buy a Mini, but I did get the router. It's fast, the numbers below are WiFi:

But it really is a PITA to get this thing to play perfectly nice with the Verizon FiOS router.