whew! Cox went down for 5 hours and when they came back up...

[Guest scatrbrain]

Cox was down in parts of Wichita for about 5 hours, when they came back up this is what i got on my 5Mb/768Kb

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 6281 Kbps about 6.3 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

Download Speed is:: 767 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1)

Test Time:: Sun Jul 3 02:20:09 CDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 112X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.34 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 94.34 % faster than the average for host (cox.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-TW2LQGFH5

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 749 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 91 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Sun Jul 3 02:23:29 CDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 11.25 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 84.94 % faster than the average for host (cox.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NSD3QXJWV

[Shug7272]

Guy like... nice scores.

[tbaker397]

Sounds like a System Upgrade/Restart to me, Congrats on the nice speeds 

[Guest scatrbrain]

Thanks guys.

I was wondering if anyone has heard about the supposed upgrades there going to be doing to many cable systems in the near future (in the next year or so). I was reading a blog from some network engineer and he was saying something about cable companies increasing speeds by possibly 100 times over todays speeds by using fiber to the curb and something called Caltech's FAST algorithm (just one of the algorithms supposedly). I'm wondering if anyone knows anything for sure about this.

I do know for sure that SBC using GPON, and Verizon using FiOS are increasing speeds up to and possibly over 20Mb (download) by about this time next year and I heard Verizon has already started this (according to my cousin that works for SBC who likes to plug there DSL every chance he gets). Don't you guys think the cable companies are going to have to do something to compete with that? Anyone know anything about this or maybe what cable companies have planned?? Any insiders out there maybe? thankz!!