Curious. I have the 16 Mbps residential<div>service, and the upstream rate is about</div><div>3.5 Mbps up, based on <a href="http://speedtest.net">speedtest.net</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd almost think an improvement of 10X</div>
<div>is almost some kind of mistake on Comcast's</div><div>part - it's hard to understand an improvement</div><div>that big. You're in West MI?</div><div><br></div><div>Re the modem, I currently have a DOCSIS 2.0</div>
<div>cable modem owned by Comcast. What was </div><div>involved in setting yours up?</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Dave Brondsema <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@brondsema.net">dave@brondsema.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">After upgrading my cable modem [1] I consistently get 9-10 Mbps upload<br>
speed with comcast residential (according to <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">speedtest.net</a>). It was<br>
only ~1 Mbps before that. The download speed increased a little bit too<br>
- but not nearly so significantly.<br>
<br>
[1] upgraded to Motorola SB6120 SurfBoard<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UI2FPE" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UI2FPE</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 05/18/2011 09:43 PM, Brad Becker wrote:<br>
> Running a web server favors more upstream bandwidth, so why<br>
> would download bandwidth be all that important when my guess is 2 Mbps<br>
> is around the best upstream anyone can get around here short of<br>
> commercial/business grade. Frankly I'd gladly give back 1/2 my download<br>
> bandwidth (most of it wasted) for 1 Mbps more on the upside. Few<br>
> servers can dish out the download bandwidth capability most people have,<br>
> but then again providers know this as their own form of throttling.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> It'll really depend on if you're doing things like running a web<br>
> server, if you're making your own files available to yourself from<br>
> elsewhere (and where a service like DropBox is less appropriate), etc.<br>
><br>
</div>> For example, I might run <a href="http://rosettacode.org" target="_blank">rosettacode.org</a> <<a href="http://rosettacode.org" target="_blank">http://rosettacode.org</a>><br>
<div class="im">> from home if I had a<br>
> reasonable Internet connection for it. It'd be nice to not need to pay<br>
> twice as much per month just to have twice as much RAM available to<br>
> me.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Jesse <<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > Perhaps a silly question but why the need for such high bandwidth?<br>
> I am a uverse customer with middle of the road level of Internet<br>
> connection and I don't notcie the lag getting my workmdone from<br>
> home, watching the occasional video on vimeo or YouTube. Netflix<br>
> runs fine as well for me.... Trying justify the cost of increased<br>
> bandwidth when I mostly do some streaming, lots of email and web<br>
> browsing and chatting on irc<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Sent from my iPad<br>
> ><br>
> > On May 18, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
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> ><br>
> >> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:29 -0400, Dan Pilcheck wrote:<br>
> >>>>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5">> >>>>> wrote:<br>
> >>>>>> I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.<br>
> >>>>>> At first, it was excellent. Got 22m down on off hours, and<br>
> 18m down on<br>
> >>>>>> peak times. Was that way for the first two - three months.<br>
> >>>>>> Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the<br>
> apartment<br>
> >>>>>> complex.<br>
> >>>>>> Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off<br>
> hours. (Even<br>
> >>>>>> when paying for the '24m' plan though)<br>
> >>> Bob (Et al.), Sorry if I'm taking this to far off topic for the<br>
> thread;<br>
> >>> What about Comcast Business at the home?<br>
> >>> IIRC its been touched on here, but I couldn't dig up anything<br>
> relevant.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I had AT&T business class DSL to my home for a long time (this<br>
> includes<br>
> >> static IPs, a router, etc...). Performance was very good.<br>
> >><br>
> >> But U-verse (which also includes TV) and a Linode is actually<br>
> cheaper.<br>
> >> You still get an always-on static IP hosts (the Linode) that isn't on<br>
> >> your power bill - and you can run server's without violating your<br>
> >> EULA.<br>
> >><br>
> >> It is also quite handy to OpenVPN from<br>
> whatever-crappy-network-I'm-on to<br>
> >> the Linode.<br>
> >><br>
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