| Okay, listen people... All of you that are complaining about this should drop it.
First off, as has been said, Comcast is just using up the available bandwidth on the network that isn't being used. It doesn't cost them anything more, creates happier customers, and creates a better broadband experience. Its not going to be based on the site you're downloading from, its overall.
Comcast has the technology in place (here in Denver at least) to be able to provide up to 60Mbps to every 5 users in some places with 40Mbps being the average. Instead of allowing one user to suck up all that bandwidth constantly, what they're doing is lessening the caps based on bandwidth demand on the node. If the node is at 100% usage, there will be no speed boost whatsoever. If you're the only person on the node (which is quite often the case where I live - lucky for me living in a neighborhood that tends to not view broadband internet as a necessity of life), you may get speeds up to the max that the node can handle - but they'll be throttled when another user comes online to accomodate that user's access. This throttling happens immediately and will continue to throttle more and more as more of the node gets utilized until its back down to your initial base speed.
Also, those of you complaining about upload speed - try calling Comcast and asking for their "Pro" tier. Its 10 bucks more a month but here in Denver, its 8Mbps/768 as opposed to 6Mbps/384, and they run specials on it from time to time (like the current 29.99/mo for 6 months).
Comcast is doing a lot right now. According to a Comcast customer service rep in their high speed department, they'll be experimenting with bumping the 8Mbps/768 users to 16Mbps/1Mbps shortly and the 6Mbps/384 users to 8Mbps/768. |
