[160384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List of Comcast speeds in Chicago, IL (North side near I-94:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PC)
Tue Feb 5 01:22:28 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAL-SDLGhC2aPtX2JaHhm=Y=Qh5g-W1Zct98W0Rz=EeCQOUFeZA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:19:27 -0700
From: PC <paul4004@gmail.com>
To: Ishmael Rufus <sakamura@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The folks in the forums at dslreports.com are generally on top of this like
a hawk and are probably a better resource than here. For what its worth,
Comcast often provides temporary speed enhancements for the first so many
bytes in x seconds, ("powerboost"), which can often throw off short
flash-based speedtests.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Ishmael Rufus <sakamura@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone help verify the listed speeds for the different services
> for Comcast:
>
> Performance - 20mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 15mbps)
> Blast - 30 mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 20 mbps)
>
> I was getting 20+ download speed tests on Performance which is correct.
> When I told customer support I was getting half (because of packet loss)
> they brought this other information to my attention
>
