| Comcast speed tests using the same tool. And I PAY for 8Mbps. Comcast admitted tonight what the problem is and these figure will prove all my tests and what Comcast rep CURTIS said are substantiated.
My location is Eugene Oregon and here are the results to:
Megapath SF 6771/684
Speakeasy SF 7381/676
Linkline LA 4659/571
Sprint FW-TX 2405/427
Net Access NJ 2001/482
My tests proved there is a problem (traceroutes confirm this) with the old AT&T network that Comcast owns. While they can give you good speeds to sites located in local datacenters, their old backbone which I was told is over 10 years old cannot handle the traffic. Yes, they are working on it. In fact, they have been working on it for a long time and have no ETA when the network will have been totally rebuilt.
Point is, comcast knows they have a bottleneck. They have no motivation to fix it as that would only increase the bandwidth that strains the network. Comcast is lying by errors of omission (non disclosure of their failing network conditions). If you are paying for high speed with them you are letting the money in your bank account go high speed into the Comcast account.
My recommendation here in the U.S. is a national class action lawsuit against Comcast. Then watch the Comcast attorneys put a spin on this corruption.
Let me also qualify my remarks here. I was a sys admin with companies like EarthLink, HostPro and others. I watched as companies like Sprint, MCI, UUnet and Level3 grew from nothing to what they became in helping connect the world. And I know when a network is running on old wire and old routers. AT&T's lines now owned and managed by Comcast (which a traceroute will show you run through) is crap being sold as prime rib.
Never trust a tech who says "I ping'd your modem and everything comes back fine. Login from a box outside your own home network and do a traceroute. Compare hops. They aren't the same which makes the tech's expert diagnosis pure garbage, like their national backbone.
Mike Reno |
