funkymint

Just spoke to Comcast, apparently, only during the off-peak hours does the "Powerboost" apply.

They said, the 8MB package will go up to 16MB (Which I havent seen yet)

-BUT-  It only applies to the first 10 megs of the file.. WTF!!

I do notice when I try to download Vista ISO from Microsoft I get around 3329 kB/s which is great, but it only goes at 3.3 MBps for about 10-15 seconds, then drops back to approx 1.4-1.7 MBps

http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/beta2/en/x86/iso/vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x86fre_client-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso

As far as Usenet goes, Giganews, I get around hte same 1.4 - 1.7 MBps

Anyone in Arlington VA see this so claimed Powerboost 16MB ??

Your connection is: 10316 Kbps or 10.32 Mbps

You Downloaded at: 1259 kB/s

You are running: 180 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 0.81 second(s)

Member Ident:Username:funkymint CompID:62865302401

Test Time:: 2006/07/02 - 6:49pm

Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Test ID: 0FVZ8O7CJ (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)

Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 99.38 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)

This was tested from a 12160 kB file and took 9.656 seconds to complete

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Your connection is: 10316 Kbps or 10.32 Mbps

You Downloaded at: 1259 kB/s

You are running: 180 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 0.81 second(s)

Member Ident:Username:funkymint CompID:62865302401

Test Time:: 2006/07/02 - 6:49pm

Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Test ID: 0FVZ8O7CJ (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)

Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 99.38 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)

This was tested from a 12160 kB file and took 9.656 seconds to complete

Anyone else get these kind of speeds from Comcast.. Metro DC area

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