said by sbrook:It's important to remember that generally speaking, if you get a good On Network, or Near Network speedtest, but you get a crappy far network (and DSLR's speedtests are decidedly "far network") test, then the chances are very high that the lack of good performance has nothing to do with Rogers.
Also note that Rogers has a feature called SpeedBoost technology that can give your connection about double the download speed for the first 10MB of data you transfer during each test. SpeedTest.net gives an average speed based on peak and continuous speeds during every test, so it's not always an accurate way to measure your rated tier speeds.
To check your rated continuous speeds, use a large file like a Linux distro as mentioned and look at the download speeds after a few minutes. I have a utility called DUMeter which gives me both a grahical and numeric display showing actual speeds. I can see that my 24/1mbps connection peaks at ~51mbps for a few seconds as SpeedBoost kicks in and hums along at ~25mbps on longer downloads. This is with a DCM475 DOCSIS 3 modem. With the older SB5101 the best peak I could get was ~32mbps as the modem couldn't handle the higher speeds.
Info on SpeedBoost can be found here:
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www.rogers.com/web/conte ··· oostonsb"SpeedBoost detects when there is available bandwidth on the network and automatically provides a temporary burst of speed for the first 10 MB of a download or stream - so content loads faster."