said by knightmb:said by EPS:DOCSIS3 is supposed to include upstream channel bonding in its final incarnation, but that part of the standard has been delayed.
I think Comcast's current deployments are a non-standard pre-DOCSIS3 version that doesn't feature upstream channel bonding, and so can't provide anything faster- but the standard does include it.
My connection will do 50 Mpbs D / 40 Mbps U on speed test (during non-peak hours of course), but I'm only suppose to be on the "16D/2U" tier. So in fairness to my neighborhood, I have my connection traffic shaped to what they say I'm suppose to have. The only thing is, the modem is only a DOCSIS2 setup (as far as they told me), so unless I have my versions mixed up, I don't think DOCSIS2 is suppose to be able to do 50 Mbps, but I can on speed test sites and my router bandwidth counter matches what I see in the speed during the test. I wonder if my modem is one of those "pre-DOCSIS3" types or not since the speed is well beyond what DOCSIS2 is suppose to be able to achieve?
Looking at the modem channel and frequency page, this shouldn't be able to hit these kind of speeds at these modulations right?
Dude... Speed tests are never to be trusted. Particularly with the boost techniques being used. Only way to be sure is to find a good fast torrent with lots of seeds, or a nice fast, close webserver on a non-peak.
