Comcast speed doubled?
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Yep. Was told in email. Just had to click to reset modem. I only have docsis 3.0 but it went from 150/5 to 250-300/10 upload.
Sadly my gaming skills haven't improved with the faster bandwidth
Sadly my gaming skills haven't improved with the faster bandwidth
I wish they’d increase mine… already pay them an extra $30/month for the privilege of “unlimited” internet the least they can do is give me a speed bump.
They haven't increased the speed on the 900/20 tier in the Central region it appears, still testing at 900/20 with the normal 20% overprovisioning.
Comcast continuing to bump speeds up for 'free' kinda makes me laugh. They know that most devices are wifi connected and very few are wired ethernet. Real world throughput for most wifi, because of interference, attenuation, and distance, is probably around 100-200Mb/s at the most. They could give most people a 1Tb/s connection and they could never use more than 100-200Mb/s. Great marketing though.
I would be happier if they could give me a month or two straight without the amplifier behind my house not needing to be rebalanced. For some reason it keeps maxing the transmit power from the amp to the CMTS and the whole segment experiences 15-20% packet loss. When I talk to the tech that comes out to work on it, he says he wishes he could just replace it, so do I.
Comcast "customer service" makes me see red. They have their IVR so well tuned that it's impossible to get out of it and talk to a human.
I would be happier if they could give me a month or two straight without the amplifier behind my house not needing to be rebalanced. For some reason it keeps maxing the transmit power from the amp to the CMTS and the whole segment experiences 15-20% packet loss. When I talk to the tech that comes out to work on it, he says he wishes he could just replace it, so do I.
Comcast "customer service" makes me see red. They have their IVR so well tuned that it's impossible to get out of it and talk to a human.
Did you notice any difference ?
Have you noticed any difference ?Yep. Was told in email. Just had to click to reset modem. I only have docsis 3.0 but it went from 150/5 to 250-300/10 upload.
Sadly my gaming skills haven't improved with the faster bandwidth
Nice.
The best one they did for me was not the 100Mbps additional to 300 Mbps but the 5 Mbps upload to 10 Mbps upload. That was beyond noticeable.
I have had 5mbps since 2001 on Xfinity plan tier and the only the download has rapidly increased.
I don’t mind Xfinity because service beyond reliable here and been working from home near 100% since 2003.
The best one they did for me was not the 100Mbps additional to 300 Mbps but the 5 Mbps upload to 10 Mbps upload. That was beyond noticeable.
I have had 5mbps since 2001 on Xfinity plan tier and the only the download has rapidly increased.
I don’t mind Xfinity because service beyond reliable here and been working from home near 100% since 2003.
oh yeah . pages load up a lot snappier .
Almost all of my Xfinity outages in the last 2 years have been due to cable dig-ups (some caused by Verizon contractors...) and car accidents.
One car accident took out a fiber cable somewhere in Manassas, about 8 miles from here.
That was a 14-hour outage and my Sprint phone data didn't work either...Sprint's data connection to the tower here runs (or did run) on that same cable!
I'm just waiting for someone to crash into the box with the node in it. For some reason, it's less than 5 feet off the edge of the pavement of a 2-lane road which gets a lot of traffic. They COULD have put it around the corner on a road which gets far less traffic.
My neighbor has a business tier level of Xfinity internet and technician mention he paid in the $250+ range / month for bandwidth and availability. I think it helps me
Yeah, I think they are all bumping up speeds.
Just over a year ago Spectrum was 100 mbps at our house, than 200 Mbps and now in the last month 300 Mbps.
Doesnt matter much to me as I dont game and 200 is way more than enough, its a way to protect their profits and customer base because its not cheap but they wont allow lower speed at a lower price anymore, at least not here.
Just over a year ago Spectrum was 100 mbps at our house, than 200 Mbps and now in the last month 300 Mbps.
Doesnt matter much to me as I dont game and 200 is way more than enough, its a way to protect their profits and customer base because its not cheap but they wont allow lower speed at a lower price anymore, at least not here.
No doubling but they bumped my 900/20 connection to 1000/20
Gaming really doesn't take a lot of bandwidth. It is more about ping speeds and latency. Most would be better off with a properly configured business grade router setup than more bandwidth. The increased speed will help raw download speed.
Yep. Used to game on a 5mbps connection while also using teamspeak with my buddies, it was more than adequate for that…. Miserable for downloading games or updates though lol.
Something that has decent QoS seems far more important, noticed I was getting lag spikes whenever someone would start streaming something to a TV. Got a new router and got my loaded latency down from 1,100+ down into the low 100’s and it made a world of difference.
I only have 80/10 Mbps and it works great for everything. I have an Untangle router with 2 WIFI access points. QOS setup properly makes a huge difference. I have DirectStream so all TV is streamed. I can have multiple people watching streaming video, streaming music, and work from home (Teams, VPN, etc), and gaming when the kids are around and nothing misses a beat. Almost everything is wired ethernet except for phones/iPads and a couple Yamaha MusicCast speakers. More bandwidth is good if you can get it for free, but in most cases people have way more bandwidth than they need.
Finally, I waited 4 years for them to get to our community and we just got notice they are going to start burying fiber in our community.
This is our electric co-op that offers internet and its a great deal, people LOVE canceling Spectrum once they get it in their community.
Only one problem, we are moving in 3 weeks that is 350 both ways. Not like spectrums claimed 300 download and only 12 up/
This is our electric co-op that offers internet and its a great deal, people LOVE canceling Spectrum once they get it in their community.
Only one problem, we are moving in 3 weeks
that is 350 both ways. Not like spectrums claimed 300 download and only 12 up/Looks like a great price if it isn't a bait and switch or they tack $50 in fees and taxes on top of the price like a lot do.Finally, I waited 4 years for them to get to our community and we just got notice they are going to start burying fiber in our community.
This is our electric co-op that offers internet and its a great deal, people LOVE canceling Spectrum once they get it in their community.
Only one problem, we are moving in 3 weeks
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Xfinity just bumped ours from 200mbs to 400mbs for not extra charge ( for now ) and it is currently testing out at 443mbs...