Comcast SpeedBoost!!

[Big Dick McGee]

Holy shit, my days of ragging on Comcast are over! Yeah, the cable television is way overpriced, and yeah, they keep raising rates every year simply beacause they can. But damned if this new "speed boost" doesn't work! Apparently, the new modem reacts when I am downloading a large file by increasing the available speed. Dunno how it works, but it does.

Let's say-hypothetically of course-that I was to download a BT file of a British Medical person who travels around with blonde Cockney bint. Said file would normally take around 3-4 hours to d/l, possibly more. Now, that same file takes around 45 minutes to an hour. I've made no changes or mods to my computer, nor have I deleted any files to free up RAM or HD space.

This kicks ass!

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

They've bumped your transfer speed, which a lot of broadband ISPs are doing these days.

Comcast is kind of an odd bird, from what I know. In some markets they'll let the user do pretty much whatever they want and you'll never hear a word from them. In other markets they really like to clamp down on filesharing and other bandwidth travesties. I guess you're one of the lucky ones. But congrats!

 

[Friday]

BDM, I hope you received better service than this person did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7b5gzqU&search=comcast sleeping

LOL!

 

[Ishcabittle]

That's comcast in a nutshell, right there.

 

[SilentBtViolent]

BDM's right. I'm a Comcast user and I pay extra to have my connection uncapped (or else raised, I'm not exactly sure how it works, but it takes off the 2 mbit cap).

Over the last year and a half, my average downstream has gone from about 5 mbits to CONSISTENT speeds over 8 mbits... It's insane how much quicker the service is.

And mind you, I think Comcast's customer service sucks donkey balls, everything is overpriced, etc. - but their infrastructure is something you really can't complain about very much, it's outstanding.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

^^I agree about the speed, it's EXCELLENT now. I'm willing to deal with the fact that they raise their prices $2-$3 a year "because they can".

Honestly, I've never found their customer service to be anything but friendly and helpful. And they are quick to give you a credit if your service is interrupted for any reason.

 

[The Question]

There are also cable modems out there that claim to do the same thing -- I was at OfficeMax yesterday and saw a D-Link model that claimed on the packaging to achieve 20x the speed of the competition on the same connection. I'm guessing that's a big ol' snowball of hype on a pebble of more efficient data packet routing.