How fast is your internet?

[MrPresident]

Internet in Afghanistan!

[Megiddo]

It hurts to look at that, Mr. P.

[krooks]

whoaa, seriously Mr P, how do you do that?? 

[MrPresident]

very slowly... 

[krooks]

very slowly... 

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[aswin]

hi I test the speed of my internet in many sites I got the best and accurate speed results from this site http://www.scanmyspeed.com/
my results are
download=1.04Mbps
upload=0.77Mbps.

[Cpt. David]

On Facepunch, I bet I would have gotten banned for posting on a topic this old.

[JamminR]

So I get a letter from Comcrap, oh, wait, it's XFinity now.
"We're raising your speeds 25%" "Restart your modem"
Before and after attached.
Here's my issues.
1) Why now?
A) Someone in my area actually competing? (Unfortunately, I live in a part of my town that has no competition. It's 1.5mbps or 25. Some areas have Knology and UVerse to compete)
B) Next year's internet rate hike (We've not had a big net hike in a while, only TV) - "We've improved your service, so had to raise cost"
C) We want you to meet your soft cap quicker
(Notice al my reason's aren't to "provide better service to me")

[Stickly Man!]

Yah, all those seem like valid reasons coming from Comcast   Did they just upgrade to Docsys 3.0 in your area? Or was it already there?

[JamminR]

Doc 3.0 been here since at least March of 2011.
That's when I went from oversold node topping ~1mbps during peak usage hours to upgraded fiber line (to node) consistent 20mbps 4 channel bonded connection.
Guess they wanted to stress test it for a year.

Another test. Used the download, automatic, to help rule out if they're using speedboost.

[McDunkable]

[Stickly Man!]

So apparently Comcast has been doubling the speeds in their plans, and my friend told me yesterday that it was hitting our area today. Here's two speedtests I just took--

Before modem reboot:


After a modem reboot:


Well, that was a pleasant surprise! It at least makes the $74/mo. me and my brother split for internet worth it. I hear that they've phased out powerboost with this latest upgrade, too, which seems to be true as far as I can tell.

[JamminR]

Sadly, they've still not got my area. According to BBR (broadbandreports.com), they've been planning this a while.
They hit one state north of me, they hit one state south of me, for whatever reason, they've not hit the city that actually has the tech support call center for most of the eastern sea-board.

Also, Stickly, check out http://speedof.me ... though it's not always as fast, it will give better anti-powerboost test (I find that speedtest.net still shows I have full 25mbps, but, speedof.me starts at 25, then finally goes down to average of 16-17, which is what my samknows.com FCC monitoring shows as average for my monthly average speeds)

Tested just now - still have powerboost at 25, then slows to 17.
(no, not that bad, but, still not upgraded either)

[Stickly Man!]

Speedof.me shows this:


..Despite the weird glitch on the upload, it looks like there's no powerboost to me!

[Megiddo]

Megiddo approves of 55 Mbps speeds.

I'm glad that I upgraded all my network components to gigabit a while back. I know we're not quite there yet for Internet speeds, but it's close enough that there may be issues with 100 Mbps wiring now due to various overheads. Now I just need to pick up a DOCSIS 3.0 modem in preparation for these speed when I get back home.