 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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4 edits | Skewed? Some people must have some seriously hosed computers/lines or fried routers!
2345.48kbps using THEIR tool - on Comcast.
EDIT: Full Size Image.
*NOTE*: See speedo needle burried?
EDIT2:
A few more screenies/test runs.
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| I assume Powerboost would give Comcast an edge in this test as well? |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | said by Karl Bode:I assume Powerboost would give Comcast an edge in this test as well? One would think, huh?
Using their own "tool" I blew everything out of the water.
... and considering most Comcast subs also have PowerBoost, why are their numbers so low?
I call Bullshit on PC Mag!
Browsing is not bandwidth intensive, and PowerBoost will last for 40MB...
There is no way browsing will run PowerBoost long enough to drop back.
Test results at PC Mag are wack!
Yet another PC Mag Red Herring.
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| I'll have to fire them an e-mail inquiring why cable operators who've deployed Powerboost didn't score higher....that does seem odd. |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | said by Karl Bode:I'll have to fire them an e-mail inquiring why cable operators who've deployed Powerboost didn't score higher....that does seem odd. Yes! Thank you!
Several cablecos are using it and they all score low? 
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said by Karl Bode:I assume Powerboost would give Comcast an edge in this test as well? A lot of the Browsing Speed depends on the users computer and its speed in resolving all the various links on a web page and how fast it can complete calling them up. Line speed makes up only a small portion of what Surfspeed measures. Also, the locations of the servers used by Surfspeed (mostly East & West coasts) can skew the results by region.
My results on a powerboosted Comcast link in NJ, which has short distances to some of these servers, but many servers are on the West Coast.
More info on a post from yesterday:
»RE: The Fastest ISPs for BROWSING - not file transfers
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | NJ?
CA here...
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Stone Mountain, GA
kudos:4 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:Line speed makes up only a small portion of what Surfspeed measures. Also, the locations of the servers used by Surfspeed (mostly East & West coasts) can skew the results by region. Exactly. This whole test is a good idea but they're reporting it wrong. They're reporting it as if it were still a basic speed test. I wonder how many users got pissed because they scored low on DSL, saw cable was much faster, switched and their score never went up? If they really want this to be effective they need to report all the other factors and show the user exactly what is the slow point. Perhaps the DNS servers you use are slow/bogged down. Perhaps your computer is slow or your router is limiting you. If you don't fix any of those, you can switch providers all you want and never gain anything.
This test shouldn't be about the ISP at all. They need to report it like Vista's scoring system. Give you a score for each component and an overall score. If you've got an old single core CPU, adding a 4870 GPU will give you a nice score in that category but won't do anything for the overall score. It certainly won't let you play Crysis any better (hell if at all in that scenario). So why would changing the ISP (as they seem to indicate) make your surf speed any faster if your computer is riddled with viruses or you still use a router with a 10Mb WAN port? |
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kudos:5 | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:I assume Powerboost would give Comcast an edge in this test as well? It would, but higher latency would also hurt them in time from the first HTTP "get" until the final resource finishes loading.
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