Comcast Says to Double Net Speed by End of Year

by **Buliwyf** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:16 pm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20030908/wr_nm/media_comcast_morganstanley_dc

by **Evan** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:38 pm

Pfft. That's still nothing.

My ISP, Optimum Online which is owned and operated by Cablevision gives each user 10mbit down and 1mbit up.

by **Buliwyf** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:55 pm

Originally posted by Evan
Pfft. That's still nothing.

My ISP, Optimum Online which is owned and operated by Cablevision gives each user 10mbit down and 1mbit up.

That's the theoretical.. The actual is 4500/120. == 450K/120K and I am hearing reports of the uploads beening capped at 50-55k. All cablemodems are 10Mbit.. You are not going to get 1MB/s sustained for a long period of time. 10Mbit can only stay there for a short while because of the TCP/IP stack overhead so the max anyone sees sustained will be 9.7MB/s

by **Edogg** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:04 pm

well if they double my speed at no extra cost then im all for it.
but if they are going to charge more for it, i will just stay at my current speed as it is plenty fast enough.

by **Rule of Wrist** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:26 pm

Originally posted by Edogg
well if they double my speed at no extra cost then im all for it.
but if they are going to charge more for it, i will just stay at my current speed as it is plenty fast enough.

I agree.

But if it's just a ploy to pry more money out of me, then I'll stick to what I have...

In the relative hinterlands where I live, I don't have access to fancy ISPs that have a kajillion-bajillion mbit/s download speeds... mere mortals like me have to deal with what we can... :violin:

by **Evan** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:13 pm

Originally posted by buliwyf
That's the theoretical.. The actual is 4500/120. == 450K/120K and I am hearing reports of the uploads beening capped at 50-55k. All cablemodems are 10Mbit.. You are not going to get 1MB/s sustained for a long period of time. 10Mbit can only stay there for a short while because of the TCP/IP stack overhead so the max anyone sees sustained will be 9.7MB/s

Theoretical? You've got to be kidding me, lol.

Off my router router, I hit my 1MB/s download limit (~10mbit down) consistently for sustained periods. About being capped - you are sort of correct.

Optonline users who abuse their upload (by running servers, like I did) will get capped from 1Mbit up to 150kbit up.

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