odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
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join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
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| Comcast DOCSIS3.0
Just an FYI to people looking for faster speeds. A couple nights ago Comcast did a maintenance in my node, and either replaced the Motorola BSR I was connected to or moved me to an Arris C4. This wouldn't normally be a big deal besides the fact that now I have three discrete bonded channels available to my modem.
the 25/5 and 50/5 packages shouldn't be to far off!
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rmturner
join:2001-10-18
Kennesaw, GA
 ·Speed Factory
·Comcast
| I've got 22/5 out in Kennesaw. They came out and brought me a Docsis 3.0 modem and it pretty much rocks. Web pages go by so fast that I can barely read the content. Whoa!
Then I realized a bummer. I don't download many videos and I probably only download ubuntu realeases every 6 months. Music streaming and voip phones worked fine with 8/2. For me it was probably overkill. But so far I'm keeping it.
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Canezoid
join:2001-02-16
Powder Springs, GA
·Comcast
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Just had upgrades done out here, got the ad in the mail last week, Sun Valley Beach area. Just went to Blast 16/2 for now. Using my own Motorola sb5101.
This from the other day >>
Pretty much stable. |
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SysOp
join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA
·Comcast
2 edits | reply to odog
May I ask what does DOCSIS3.0 do for the rest of us? I have the 1Mbps/.356 comcast service. Will I get lower latency?
My bandwidth usage is less than 1Mbps, so I don't need any more than 1Mbps bandwidth. Most webpages are less than 200KB anyways.
ping google.com 16ms
ping google.com.au 38ms
ping google.co.jp 47ms
I would say my DOCSIS2.0 Comcast connection is fast enough for me.
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Nick
Purveyor of common sense
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join:2000-10-29
Smithtown, NY
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It won't do anything for latency. It just bonds several downstream channels together. So if you have 30mbps before...30 * 4 channel bonding = 120 mbps. But it won't do anything for latency 
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
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join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
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| said by Nick  :It won't do anything for latency. It just bonds several downstream channels together. So if you have 30mbps before...30 * 4 channel bonding = 120 mbps. But it won't do anything for latency His latency numbers are rather suspect anyway.. 38ms to Australia? 47ms to Japan? You'll get around 160-200ms to Japan, and an additional 80-100ms to get to Australia.
D3 doesn't directly lower latency just the likelihood of contention on the RF layer. That contention is which causes much of the latency in a DOCSIS network. |
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ATLJ
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join:1999-12-24
Atlanta, GA
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They have been doing a lot of work around me and actually had everything go out yesterday and realized them or ATT had switched the cable coming into my house for some reason. I called and they had no clue so I switched cables back and everything working but Internet is slow now.
Can you get DOCSIS 3.0 modems swapped for free from Comcast? I think my modem is about 5 years old and is a SciAtlanta model.
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Canezoid
join:2001-02-16
Powder Springs, GA
·Comcast
| said by ATLJ : Can you get DOCSIS 3.0 modems swapped for free from Comcast? I think my modem is about 5 years old and is a SciAtlanta model. Dude, you really need to get an update to that modem, go to Walmart and pickup a Moto 5101 and have Comcast reprovision your line.
Since Comcast has been updating all around to DOC 3 and bumping up tiers, like the old "performance" tier to 12/2 that older equipment will not handle the higher tier rates.
DOC3 upgrades just done around here in July and I upgraded to the Blast tier, 16/2, but this is what I see >>
It's not abnormal to see upwards of 28M DL (powerboost) when not to busy out there. Upgrade to newer equipment may do wonders for your connection. |
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ATLJ
Go Braves
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join:1999-12-24
Atlanta, GA
clubs: | So I swapped and got a Docsis 3.0 modem and my speeds are amazing now!
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LowRider
join:2006-06-23
Dallas, GA | reply to odog
Anyone know when they will release this in Dallas, Ga? i can't get it, i can only get the 8MB |
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Metatron2008
join:2008-09-02
Stockbridge, GA | Slightly off topic, but pretty much anyone who has access to cable in Atlanta and Metro should have good speeds:
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Napsterbater
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join:2002-12-28
Milledgeville, GA | reply to odog
My bet is the IPs for those domain are still US IPs since the DNS request came from the US, just how google works =P. |
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