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reply to sortofageek

Re: Let's keep all DOCSIS 3.0 Discussion in this thread, please

Nice. I hadn't noticed that. thanks for pointing it out.

reply to Rick
What markets have this now? Only the Twin Cities?

reply to sortofageek
So far only the Twin Cities.

reply to sortofageek
Anyone know of next D3 rollout rumors? Anything for central maryland?

reply to sortofageek
I was wondering I have a motorola sb 5120 is that a doc 2 or 3 modem?

reply to sortofageek
Here's info about the Motorola SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (SB6120) -> »business.motorola.com/ultrabroad···120.html

reply to sortofageek
I am a little puzzled by the occasional negativity I see here. I am a DOCSIS 3 subscriber on Comcast in a suburb in the Minneapolis & Saint Paul (MSP) area of Minnesota. I ordered the DOCSIS 3 service the day it was announced. I use it heavily and test it almost every day to the Comcast speed-test sever as well as to www.speedtest.net and I reliably see my 5 Mb uplink. I see 44 Mb of the downlink due to the limitations of the workstation that I use for the test. The ping-time to www.speedest.net is consistently 65 mS +/- 2 mS.

I use the connectivity for professional purposes as I often need to transfer very large files. It is a splendid tool. Comcast has done everything one could ask to build and maintain a rock-solid network. I could not be happier with the service and with Comcast in general.

reply to sortofageek
I am loving the DOCSIS 3 speeds, but they seem a little OFF, or low.

speedtests say 40-44mb, and uplink is roughly 2-4....not sure why it is so low, when it's advertised as 50/5.

Anything I can check to clear this all up?
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reply to sortofageek
check your connections also the only speed test I've ever been able to get a full reading on is speedtest.net chicago server. Anything else and its low.

I've been able to hit 5.59mb on a few downloads but like you 40 - 44 is about it.

I'm loving it too but the economy is tight and I've had to tighten my belt too I'm putting a seasonal freeze on my account for 3 or 4 months until things improve I'm gonna miss the blazing speed but not the bill
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reply to Quaoar
You can't be serious. "No way, no how, can Comcast demonstrate to any user that Comcast is providing the contracted up/down speeds at every second of every day.."

So all of those speed test servers I've been using over the years to check my speeds are somehow magically manipulated by Comcast to show me what I want to see?

I'm not one to be sarcastic but you sound like one of those Flat Earth Society people who won't let go of the idea that the Earth is flat even after being shown proof it's round.

reply to ViviTheMage
Even sometimes transferring files between PC's on my LAN I can only max out at 74meg with a 10/100 nic. So getting those 50mb speeds over broadband isn't so shabby.

reply to sortofageek
hmm wonder if anyone will now switch to the faster tier with the cap in place? I've easily downloaded many gigabytes in an hour.
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*shrug*

My usage has gone up since getting the 50/5 service in June, but not to a huge degree. My satisfaction with my home broadband connection, however, has improved immensely -- I grabbed both the PBX-In-A-Flash and Trixbox ISOs last month and it was nice to be ready to burn 2-4 minutes after clicking on the download link.

        eth0
 
           month        rx      |       tx      |    total
        ------------------------+---------------+---------------
          Sep '07    17,906 MB  |     1,692 MB  |    19,599 MB
          Oct '07    22,654 MB  |     2,236 MB  |    24,891 MB
          Nov '07    21,906 MB  |     2,021 MB  |    23,927 MB
          Dec '07    49,518 MB  |     2,559 MB  |    52,077 MB
          Jan '08    30,174 MB  |     2,854 MB  |    33,028 MB
          Feb '08    24,748 MB  |     2,042 MB  |    26,790 MB
          Mar '08    45,936 MB  |     3,215 MB  |    49,152 MB
          Apr '08    52,197 MB  |     4,028 MB  |    56,225 MB
          May '08    51,622 MB  |     2,794 MB  |    54,416 MB
          Jun '08    52,876 MB  |     9,502 MB  |    62,379 MB
          Jul '08    65,720 MB  |    17,952 MB  |    83,672 MB
          Aug '08    55,482 MB  |    11,460 MB  |    66,943 MB
        ------------------------+---------------+---------------
        estimated    62,166 MB  |    12,840 MB  |    75,006 MB
 

reply to Chiyo
what are you using to poll your #'s? I've also noticed a ton of outages again the last fwe days for random parts of the day.
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