DonaldLaird5
join:2005-03-15
Swink, CO |  Bresnan has Upgraded
The speeds have doubled since monday, it really screams now,
Bresnan was saying they were upgrading and I guess they did! |
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rod_pod
join:2003-08-10
Great Falls, MT
| said by DonaldLaird5  :The speeds have doubled since monday, it really screams now, Bresnan was saying they were upgrading and I guess they did! I called Bresnan yesterday and spoke with one of their the Techs. He said they are in the midst of upgrading their speed for cable internet and it will be 8mb down and 512k up. He also said there will be NO price increase! 
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DonaldLaird5
join:2005-03-15
Swink, CO | Checked the speed this morning, 7200 down, 524 up!
I am very happy with this! |
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Mark Uhde
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to DonaldLaird5
Yup, just noticed today that the caps are now 8676800 bps down and 555745 up.
And, if there is no rate hike, it remains at the price Centurytel charges for 1500/256 with 10-12% packet loss. |
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Shizlnit
@69.146.x.x | reply to rod_pod
Yeah my latencies have skyrocketed to the 400's (during peak hours)! I hope this is just temporary its making my gaming pretty much impossible. |
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Bif
@72.174.x.x | reply to DonaldLaird5
Anyone hear if they're going to be upgrading Canon City, CO soon ?
Sure would be great! |
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soadlink
join:2002-11-17
Kalispell, MT
edit:
March 27th, @11:34PM
| reply to DonaldLaird5
Yea I noticed this too. Although I was told on the phone by the tech support the speeds will be: 8000/768
But my speed tests show about 512 up right now.
The lady on the phone said the official announcement will be made at the beginning of april, although the upgrades are already done in most of the areas. |
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Mark Uhde
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT
| reply to DonaldLaird5
Yeah, she made a mistake with 768 up. The actual caps (1024 bits in a kilobit) are:
8473 kbps down
542 kbps up
They advertise 8000 down/512 up and overshoot it a little with the caps so they can meet or beat what they advertise when things are running well (unlike DSL which caps it at what they advertise, and then has overhead, and then runs PPPoE or PPPoA adding even more overhead...) |
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soadlink
join:2002-11-17
Kalispell, MT
| reply to DonaldLaird5
I Love You Bresnan |
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soadlink
join:2002-11-17
Kalispell, MT
| reply to DonaldLaird5
Bresnan had an outage last night from about 2am to 5am in Kalispell. When I woke up I did a few speed tests since the system was back up...and the upload was capped at 384 for all tests I ran 
I have been getting the full 8000/512 speed EVERY time (usually its even a bit more than that)
Hope they haven't changed their minds about the 512 upload! 
But I guess we will see when they finally announce it |
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Mark Uhde
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to DonaldLaird5
I'm out of town, tmw night I'll check the caps on my modem... |
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soadlink
join:2002-11-17
Kalispell, MT | reply to DonaldLaird5
Is there a way to check the exact caps they set on the modem? |
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Mark Uhde
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT
| reply to DonaldLaird5
There was (SNMP e.g. docsdiag) but it's been locked out by Bresnan |
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Mark Uhde
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to DonaldLaird5
P.S. Upload speed, when I tested, has obviously been cut. I'd guess to around 384k |
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