 Review by nei1 
UPDATED: 230 days ago
member for 4.3 years, 87 visits, last login: 47 days ago
 Scranton,Lackawanna,PA
 Contract price not specified.
 "Reliable in Scranton"
 "Expensive, P2P throttling, best to avoid needing customer service -- especially account-help"
 "Waiting for an alternative"
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Between 2004 and 2009, download speeds have increased from occasional 6 Mb/sec spurts to frequent spurts over 10 Mb/sec.
For WinXP, I like this bit-rate meter: »analogx.com/contents/download/ne···load.htm
I turn off all the readouts except Incoming Data and Outgoing Data, which reduces the footprint on your screen. Those two scales include Average (over the width of the moving graph) and Maximum (since the last reset). The Y-axis range is auto-ranging with the Maximum as the highest value. The "Totals" function helps you to keep track when your ISP starts charging you per-bit, although I have that function turned off.
Once my service was up and running, I never had to contact Comcast, which is a good thing. Maybe I call them yearly to ask for a price break, but all they offer is additional services to increase my monthly charge. Since they don't have any competition, I can't use the "Discontinue Service" threat on them.
When I release the Upload-Speed limits on my torrent tracker, the upload speed jumps up to [over] 7 Mb/sec for about 5 seconds, and then settles to 1 Mb/sec for the duration. That's good speed for me, but what would be the problem of letting me run max-upload if there's capacity on the "node" in my neighborhood?
I'm starting to get download speed-test results in the 10 Mb/sec range, which includes extended-duration speed measurements. Different speed-test websites provide different results, varying by their distance from me and their hardware's bandwidth.
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