NetFixer
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join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
 ·Vonage
 ·AT&T Southeast
 ·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
| reply to Quaoar
Re: PowerBoost on 8M/768K service is Borked?
In order to understand PowerBoost, you have to understand ISP-speak. Take for example, this quote from the Comcast FAQ What is PowerBoost and how does it work?
PowerBoost can provide customers with extra bursts of download speed that is
- Up to 12 Mbps on Comcast's 6 Mbps service
and
- Up to 16 Mbps on Comcast's 8 Mbps service
The key words are "can" and "Up to" as oppposed to the common misinterpretation of those words as meaning "will" and "At least".
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markofmayhem
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
| I think it would be nice for this well educated community to get together and find a nice, routine, standardized way to test "powerboost". A lot of posters write "my Powerboost isn't working", but leave out any details as to why they feel this way. It would be nice to have a little guide by those who understand exactly what is going on with Powerboost so that we can all "test" our connections to see if
a. Powerboost is even present in our area
b. What the average Powerboost level is for each of our connections
c. If there is a sudden decrease in Powerboost but not provisioned speed
Just a nice 5-10 step process, as speed tests don't work and I keep hearing about large files not being a good test either (FTP a 25 MB file). |
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NetFixer
Freedom is NOT Free
Premium
join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
·Vonage
·AT&T Southeast
·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
| said by markofmayhem  :I think it would be nice for this well educated community to get together and find a nice, routine, standardized way to test "powerboost". First you would need to get Comcast to bypass the marketing ISP-speak and actually publish the specs. Don't hold your breath. 
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We can never have enough of nature.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Test your firewall. |
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tivoking
join:2005-02-03
48077 | reply to markofmayhem
I have been getting 8.2Mbps speed test results on multiple speed test sites for the past year. This has never changed since Powerboost is supposedly available in my area. |
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