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[Grax]

I can say that we are seeing 25+ on the download here in KC with Turbo powerboost but the upload still needs work

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 21308 Kbps about 21.31 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB)
Download Speed is:: 2601 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 760 Kbps about 0.8 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 93 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/07/26 - 10:26pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-KS82LGFAQ
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-O8IKJ014N
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; WWTClient2; AskTB5.3) [!]

[MttFrog13]

I had road runner turbo 10mb/1mb connection for $30/month with powerbost, up to 15m/3mb for an additional $5/month but i just got rid of powerboost because it's only temporary speed. Powerboost hasn't affected web browsing and also, won't increase bittorrent speeds. Speedtest.net was able to detect my powerboost speed, but oddly testmy's speed test doesn't download at powerboost speeds.

[Grax]

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I had road runner turbo 10mb/1mb connection for $30/month with powerbost, up to 15m/3mb for an additional $5/month but i just got rid of powerboost because it's only temporary speed. Powerboost hasn't affected web browsing and also, won't increase bittorrent speeds. [this.site.has.been.blocked.for.spamming] was able to detect my powerboost speed, but oddly testmy's speed test doesn't download at powerboost speeds.

Well sure it does..look at my result! your wrong about bit torrent as well..the speed boost is obvious on all of my downloads...when you use the right trackers.as far as browsing it dont take much to load a browser...3 meg will do just fine its the flash and java that turbo helps load.Sorry to burst your bubble but if you dont see these differences with it you need to clean your machine.

[Blako]

I notice that testmy downloads might start at 5mbps, jump to 14mbps, then hang back around 5.  But that might be network traffic or heavy cpu load?  I have never seen a torrent like program use all of my 10mbps line, but i have touched 7mbps.  From what I understand powerboost only works on files larger then 10MBytes and then its only active for 10 seconds.  Rather disappointing when servers can even feed half of my capacity.

[Grax]

Right..the best place to see it is streaming video..larger BT files you will see some difference but again you can only download as fast as they are uploading.Bad leechers .........Bad...wait I dont use Bit torrent

[MttFrog13]

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Well sure it does..look at my result! your wrong about bit torrent as well..the speed boost is obvious on all of my downloads...when you use the right trackers.as far as browsing it dont take much to load a browser...3 meg will do just fine its the flash and java that turbo helps load.Sorry to burst your bubble but if you dont see these differences with it you need to clean your machine.

You're not bursting my bubble. I use private trackers where people seed, but even still, i can't get over 10mb on bittorrernt, or above 1mb uploading. And i've understood that powerboost wouldn't affect day to day browsing. Like someone said, speed boost only last one time. I do remember that when i was downloading the windows 7 betas and release candidate off microsoft servers, i got speeds above 15mb. Other than this, i can't tell.  But either way, even tho [this.site.has.been.blocked.for.spamming] detected my powerboost i appreciate that testmy.net didn't detect my powerboost because at least i was able to have a real world situation in my test.