verve
join:2001-05-24
London, ON
| [ Express] Speed Increases?
I mentioned in a previous post I was thinking about upgrading to Express. Well, I did, and I've been noticing the speed seems to be higher than advertised; not that I'm complaining, mind you.
So I gave tech support a call, he checked my billing and modem profiles: they're both set to Express, but apparently the modem's been provisioned for 7Mbps and the upload has increased, too (I've been getting ~460kbps).
He said he'd been getting calls all morning about it. Anyone else notice this? Is this becoming official?
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joe_hammer
join:2007-03-08 | with extreme i topped out at 750 kbps. that was the pre-throttling days. however, i can still hit about 600 kbps on certain sites. of course no upload. 460 seems about normal for a 5mbps line. |
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MikeG
Premium
join:2004-10-02
Hamilton, ON | Pretty sure he means 460 upload. Express upload is (or was) set at 384. |
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verve
join:2001-05-24
London, ON | Yep, I meant upload.
So no one else has heard anything about this, or experienced it? Replies seem lackluster.
It'd be nice if these were the new speeds. |
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MikeG
Premium
join:2004-10-02
Hamilton, ON | reply to verve
Can you post a couple speedtests? |
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verve
join:2001-05-24
London, ON | 
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sponk
join:2005-01-03
Mississauga
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
1 edit | My speeds increased as well. I just rebooted the SB5120 modem and voila, the new speeds 
Edit: I'm on the express profile as well. |
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stormy13
join:2003-10-28
Etobicoke, ON | reply to verve
On Extreme and just rebooted my modem,
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you
Reasonably unreasonable
Premium
join:2004-06-06
Toronto, ON
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Me too. On Express. The test I took just before power cycling was 4800/384. Why don't they inform us of this stuff?
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sm00nie
join:2004-06-04
Richmond Hill, ON
| I just reset my modem and I'm seeing it as well. My upload speeds have always been below par (around 260-280kbps) thow, but now it's ... almost at what the "old" express ul rate should of been  .
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joe_hammer
join:2007-03-08 | 
this is me on extreme. no changes really |
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grrr
Ack, ack, adack
Premium
join:2001-06-16
43.45, -79.1 | 
I just reset my modem and got these results. I was getting the advertised Extreme speeds before.
Thanks for the heads-up. |
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Sunfox
join:2003-12-14
Markham, ON | Just got the following... not too bad for 6PM, I guess:
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juiced666
join:2007-03-03
Milton, ON
| reply to verve
Just rebooted my modem, and the Guelph area seems to have gotten the speed boost as well (for the extreme profile at least) - hope it lasts... |
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iceweasel
join:2007-03-03
Shediac, NB | Still between 5000 and 6000  |
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davidtcb
join:2002-03-19
Scarborough, ON | reply to verve
I rebooted my SB5100 and my speeds have increased as well. I am on the extreme service.
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askywalker
join:2002-06-25
Markham, ON
| I am on Extreme at my house - had a strange problem this morning - Internet worked but DNS didn't. I rebooted the modem and was surprised to see downloading at 7.3 mbps ! Just tested again this evening and still getting the faster dl! |
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drunkgoat
join:2004-04-18
1 edit | It appears that the new extreme profile is 9000/800
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drunkgoat
join:2004-04-18
1 edit | Hmm... I'm wonder if that speedtest.net test is accurate since everyone else is reporting 7500
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coldpower27
join:2004-02-07
Scarborough, ON
1 edit | reply to drunkgoat
I am on Extreme, only 7500/800 I think for me
But I guess that ain't bad we're close to 1Meg/sec now. |
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