Re: How does a company give you more speed? in Cable users http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20201035 en Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:27:48 EDT Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:27:48 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425099 Winter_Lion :
said by juking See Profile :

»www.speedtest.net/index.php
Most of us have seen the above speed test. My question is this: My speed is an average of 18/1.5 My global/country rank is 95/93%. Why would my father's global/country rank show in the 49%/45% position, when his speed is 45/4.5? He has embarq, and I have a different company. Our suggested server is 100 miles away. Also, based on my above speed, what should my approximate ping be?
Juking,

Different companies........is your answer. Like accountants having more than one way to balance year end profits and losses statements to suit the occasion.

Don't quote me on this but | don't think anyone could calculate what your ping should be based on your maximum tested speed up and down. Even the suggested server location 's distance of 100 miles is of little help.

In a perfect world your ping should be less than 5 at 100 miles. But how many hops to get there......how many users sharing bandwidth in your neighborhood......etc.etc.etc.

But. like I said.........don't quote me on this....I am not an expert, merely a tournament BF2 player who routinely plays in Germany and Korea.....from my back bedroom in Washington state.

That kind of experience does give you an on the job style of education on ping,packet loss,lag, bandwidth vampires playing next to you and the fact that you get what you pay for for the most part.

I would LOVE to have your pop's ethernet access...although it would be wasted on one person or even a family. That is a business sized window to the net and only a business could warrant the expense...eh?

I play anywhere from Denver west and 25 ping is playable.
I run over a 100 playing in Europe....but considering the distance and the 64 player servers we play on.

Ping at 100 with no data loss and running at 10 megs down and 2 up is A PERFECT WORLD

Respects.......Winter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20425099 Sat, 03 May 2008 08:55:18 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20214251 juking : »www.speedtest.net/index.php
Most of us have seen the above speed test. My question is this: My speed is an average of 18/1.5 My global/country rank is 95/93%. Why would my father's global/country rank show in the 49%/45% position, when his speed is 45/4.5? He has embarq, and I have a different company. Our suggested server is 100 miles away. Also, based on my above speed, what should my approximate ping be? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20214251 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:10:38 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20211022 burner50 :
said by InGreenwood :

I am always amused by the denial that there is any US outside the two coasts. My town has 7,000 homes, some cable, some dish, some antennas. Let say 4000 have cable and 10% of those have High speed internet (3 meg here) That is 400 local users of the cable internet, total. If 25% are active then there are 100 people online at any one time, if 15 of them are downloading, all is well with a T3. (I know that my former cable was via a T3, not sure the infrastructure here. I know their 'local loop' is over 100 miles.
That is where ISP's run into problems. They count on this information to be true when many time it is not. Then they have big problems ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20211022 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:03:44 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20211021 burner50 : Well said...

a "broadband" probider should not be happy with anything less than an OC48 pipe into their headend.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20211021 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:01:37 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201942 anon : I am always amused by the denial that there is any US outside the two coasts. My town has 7,000 homes, some cable, some dish, some antennas. Let say 4000 have cable and 10% of those have High speed internet (3 meg here) That is 400 local users of the cable internet, total. If 25% are active then there are 100 people online at any one time, if 15 of them are downloading, all is well with a T3. (I know that my former cable was via a T3, not sure the infrastructure here. I know their 'local loop' is over 100 miles.

Yes, I know that higher speeds are possible where population density is high, but few folks in Mississippi can pronounce Computer, let alone have one.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201942 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:50:14 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201761 GeekNJ : Aggregated bandwidth is an issue with any provider and it's the reason you can pay $45 for fractional T3 speeds vs the thousands of dollars for more "dedicated" bandwidth.

If your provider only has a T3 to the Internet, find a new provider. Sounds more like a dial-up ISP then a broadband ISP.
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Tweaked your connection? | Mail Parse | Speed Converter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201761 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:23:11 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201655 anon : But customers taking advantage of higher speeds may slow down other customers. Lets imagine your local cable company has a T3 back to the Internet. 45 Meg divided by 6 Meg would mean 8 customers would have to be attempting to download the entire internet before slowdowns effect others.

If folks upgrade to 10 Meg, 5 customers can suck up the entire pipe, even though the cable company did not downgrade any equipment or add any new limits.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201655 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:04:01 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201165 GeekNJ :
said by juking See Profile :

said by GeekNJ See Profile :

Every time your cable modem connects to Comcast, it downloads what is called a config file. This config file specifies a bunch of info but for your specific question it contains the caps (max speeds) for your upload and download. That is primarily how it is done.
I wonder if I can expect them to play games in order to get me to buy. I'm happy with my speeds already.
That would be illegal I think. Purposely degrading your performance in hopes you upgrade to a higher tier? No, they shouldn't do that.
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Tweaked your connection? | Mail Parse | Speed Converter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201165 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:14:19 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201035 juking :
said by GeekNJ See Profile :

Every time your cable modem connects to Comcast, it downloads what is called a config file. This config file specifies a bunch of info but for your specific question it contains the caps (max speeds) for your upload and download. That is primarily how it is done.
I wonder if I can expect them to play games in order to get me to buy. I'm happy with my speeds already.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20201035 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:29:33 EDT Re: How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20200969 GeekNJ : Every time your cable modem connects to Comcast, it downloads what is called a config file. This config file specifies a bunch of info but for your specific question it contains the caps (max speeds) for your upload and download. That is primarily how it is done.
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Tweaked your connection? | Mail Parse | Speed Converter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20200969 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:06:10 EDT How does a company give you more speed? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20200955 juking : Comcast is mailing notices out, advertising more speed for ten bucks a month. How do they give you more speed? Do they install some sort of limiter in the line, to get you to buy more speed? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20200955 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:00:06 EDT