I have heard two different things
1. Comcast upgraded to the new Sandvine fairshare, that was just announced at the 2008 Cable Show today
It uses application-agnostic
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Content-Management/Sandvine-Goes-Agnostic/
2. Comcast ditched Sandvine and is working with Pando Networks, to create a protocol-agnostic network management technique by the end of this year
As for my upload still at a steady 2.5Mbps
Edit: just got a 3.0Mbps Upload and a 32Mbps Download on speakeasy
Getting getter every day, even got a 31.5Mbps off of speakeasy thx guys
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 28878 Kbps about 28.9 Mbps (tested with 102391 kB)
Download Speed is:: 3525 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/19 - 2:59pm
Bottom Line:: 504X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.29 sec
Tested from a 102391 kB file and took 29.046 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 368.72 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-805UEPWG2
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 [!]
Increased speeds to around 24-25Mbps
It is around the peak hours 5 pm though, I wonder how much if any it will go up tonight. I will keep tweaking it if its not the node getting hammered, I shouldn't be complaining it said I was 22+ 233% faster than avg. Comcast connection
Bottom Line:: 341X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.36 sec
Tested from a 102391 kB file and took 36.156 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 22% + : 233.57 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
I just used the TCP Optimizer, but noticed it only tweaked up to 20,000kbps. Is there anything else I could use to optimize my 30 Mbps? Since I can tell after I optimized to 20,000kbps im toping out at that. thx