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Re: [Speed Issues] PowerBoost (SpeedBoost) Outage? said by BF69:...
So you don't have powerboost. It didn't do much anyways other than to overinflate a speed test results. Was 3-10 seconds of powerboost really going to do anything?
Powerboost works when browsing -- most websites load in under 4 seconds so they load at full speed, no throttling.
So yes, PowerBoost is helpful to most people.
On Charter's end, they put you into a 4 second queue so they don't incur any throttling overhead until that expires. If you're still downloading after 4 seconds you go into a much faster throttling queue which means more overhead processing on their end. So, it's probably a good thing from Charter's point of view also. |
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Camden, TN | said by Balplanman:Powerboost works when browsing -- most websites load in under 4 seconds so they load at full speed, no throttling. So yes, PowerBoost is helpful to most people.
If your website loads that fast powerboost won't matter. Sure you can travel 1/4 of a mile faster in car going 75 MPH than one going 25 MPH but how much time did you actually save? Not much. |
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said by BF69:said by Balplanman:Powerboost works when browsing -- most websites load in under 4 seconds so they load at full speed, no throttling. So yes, PowerBoost is helpful to most people.
If your website loads that fast powerboost won't matter. Sure you can travel 1/4 of a mile faster in car going 75 MPH than one going 25 MPH but how much time did you actually save? Not much. indeed.
Most websites are under 2MB. On 30mbps service without speed boost, a normal website can load in about 600ms. On connections above 5mbps, latency is the bigger factor in how quickly we perceive websites to load.
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Re: Charter is Getting Rid of PowerBoost (SpeedBoost) Just got a 24 meg down / 4.96 meg up speedtest on a 15 meg plan. |
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| said by BlakePaulson:Just got a 24 meg down / 4.96 meg up speedtest on a 15 meg plan.
Its been scrubbed from their residential site, so they likely will not be offering it anymore. Its still on their business site, but i think that will be getting scrubbed soon too. |
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If they remove it oh well, its for the better of the charter community.
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said by Chubbysumo:said by BlakePaulson:Just got a 24 meg down / 4.96 meg up speedtest on a 15 meg plan.
Its been scrubbed from their residential site, so they likely will not be offering it anymore. Its still on their business site, but i think that will be getting scrubbed soon too. been told by bussnuss rep that they will keep it on bussnuss side since bussnuss customers already pay more |
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said by zed260:said by Chubbysumo:said by BlakePaulson:Just got a 24 meg down / 4.96 meg up speedtest on a 15 meg plan.
Its been scrubbed from their residential site, so they likely will not be offering it anymore. Its still on their business site, but i think that will be getting scrubbed soon too. been told by bussnuss rep that they will keep it on bussnuss side since bussnuss customers already pay more |
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Cleveland, TN | meant business sorry |
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Faison, NC | working here 30meg plan.
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Conover, NC | reply to TheTechGuru
Still working in NC on 30/4 tier...
Peak Download speed was 62.32Mbps - Upload is usually 4.20 Mbps, however some upload activity was occurring causing a slight slowdown. |
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Re: [Speed Issues] PowerBoost (SpeedBoost) Outage? Just curious, I may have missed you mentioning this in the thread... Have you or are you speed testing with a direct hookup to your modem? |
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| said by DrDrew:Just curious, I may have missed you mentioning this in the thread... Have you or are you speed testing with a direct hookup to your modem?
That does not make one bit of difference when you're on a gigabit LAN like I am.
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Conover, NC | said by TheTechGuru:said by DrDrew:Just curious, I may have missed you mentioning this in the thread... Have you or are you speed testing with a direct hookup to your modem?
That does not make one bit of difference when you're on a gigabit LAN like I am. It certainly could if you have QoS enabled. If you do, try disabling it. If that doesn't work, try what has already been suggested... bypass the router to test and see if it's screwing with PB.
You might already be aware of this, but if you change the device your modem is connected to, I believe you first need to power cycle the modem, then connect your PC and let it get an address via DHCP. Just try it and see what happens. It's worth a shot! |
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said by TheTechGuru:That does not make one bit of difference when you're on a gigabit LAN like I am.
For a whole host of reasons (QoS, traffic filtering, congestion, etc.), yes it can. The EASIEST way to make sure something on your LAN isn't affecting your speed results is to directly connect to the modem and test.
Is it really that difficult or time consuming to try? For a "certified" network guru like yourself I'm surprised you haven't tried it, it should be easy...
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said by bshelly:It certainly could if you have QoS enabled. I have read umpteenth complaint threads on many boards about how Charter sucks and speeds aren't advertised only for these same people to come back latter and admit that this was their issue and after turning off QoS their speed issues were fixed. I also don't ever recall anyone apologizing to Charter either. |
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said by DrDrew:said by TheTechGuru:That does not make one bit of difference when you're on a gigabit LAN like I am.
For a whole host of reasons (QoS, traffic filtering, congestion, etc.), yes it can. The EASIEST way to make sure something on your LAN isn't affecting your speed results is to directly connect to the modem and test. Is it really that difficult or time consuming to try? For a "certified" network guru like yourself I'm surprised you haven't tried it, it should be easy... Nothing has changed with the router that would affect it and I do not have QOS enabled.
It's not so simple to go connect directly when it's in a network closet.
I do get 640mbps (80MB/sec) from a server on my LAN.
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Re: Charter is Getting Rid of PowerBoost (SpeedBoost) QOS is not generally enabled by default in routers (at least in NETGEAR is isn't). You'd have to manually click it on, usually for a specific purpose. |
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