Greywulf99

The great upload speed is back for me Again, I've tested this with torrents too. Upload powerboost usually lasts 10 seconds for me, I was uploading at double my usual max speed for 10 mins straight. Hopefully it sticks this time...

my normal upload speed is not 90kB/sec now. it was a while back before i moved, but now we are not on the highest tier so it maxes out at 45kB/sec after the 20-30 second powerboost. even if 90 was normal was normal for me, we were getting much higher anyway, so your statement "And the normal upload speed is 90Kbps, so that wasnt boosted either." does not make any sense whatsover. it MAY just be powerboost as you say, but at the very least it was an extremely drastic difference in the way powerboost functions around here. its effect went from 20-30 secs to indefinate. im not trying to define it as anything, powerboost or not, it functioned as if our caps were at a much higher level for a day. it was as good as i would anticipate FIOS to be yesterday, now its just mediocre again.

I am the friend he is referring to that pointed this out to him a couple days ago. First, I noticed just an upload powerboost 3 or 4 days ago. I said to my girlfriend, "sweet, now the next step is permenantly increasing it so they might actually be competitive with verizon". The very next day I noticed the speed lasting longer than just the initial 20-30 second boost. I did fairly extensive bandwidth testing, downloaded torrents... had a friggin sweet connection. Usually capped around 45k/sec, i was uploading 60k/sec with torrents and had plenty of bandwidth left over to whiz through web sites. It was able to upload a steady 150k/sec no problem. Unfortunately, that seemed to have ended between last night and right now. Now its back to the regular upload/download powerboost. By the way, WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. I have a screenshot to prove it that I sent to zombievac the night I noticed it. It WAS NOT just the normal powerboost, nor did any of these 3 changes seem to require a powercycle of the cable modem. In the screenshot, the vertical lines in DU Meter are 1 min apart. You can see the upload speed of 115k/sec lasted about a minute on that first test visible on the graph, obviously longer than the powerboost time. I didn't take any screenshots, but later on in the night i had the whole bottom of DU meter showing a steady 10 mins of 90k/sec. Seems this was either an experiment or a mistake on Comcasts part. Still nice just to have the upload powerboost for now at least Screenshot