 Phatty
join:2000-05-10
Valley Park, MO
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 ·Charter Pipeline
| Good stuff Good to see a bankrupt company can continue to improve services. To bad I have a business modem account so I am sure I won't see this feature enabled for me.
Now if Charter could take the time to upgrade their HD lineup the same way they have been their HSI services I would be a happy man. | |
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NickD
Premium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ
clubs: | Wonder if some people will enjoy Perma-boost Some Comcast users have been getting powerboost speeds for hours | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: Wonder if some people will enjoy Perma-boost said by NickD  :Some Comcast users have been getting powerboost speeds for hours thats known as "permaboost"
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | 2 Mbps upstream? Glad to hear Charter is upping upload speeds and implementing powerboost. I wonder if the recent changes are to blame for my vonage voice issues the last two days... | |
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snailspace
join:2000-11-27
Montevallo, AL | Re: 2 Mbps upstream? Charter plans to launch Powerboost technology on October 15.
Are you 30 days ahead of us?  | |
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Go ahead, make my day
join:2006-07-30
Ocean Gate, NJ | Powerboost! When my internets connect, and I'm powerboosed, I want a voice to cry out through my speakers: "POWERBOOST", ala Unreal Tournament's "multikill" or "dominating". Is that possible? | |
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St. John 3.16
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR | PowerBoost... ha, ha, he, he
We have PowerConstantly here. It is better known as FiOS.
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| Poetique
join:2007-08-05
Birmingham, AL
1 edit | Re: PowerBoost... ha, ha, he, he Meh, kinda sad I can't see full speeds (especially considering my signal) but 10/1.5 works out nicely for me. I'm hosting every game i play now lol.
For that matter I'm kinda curious why I don't see full speeds...
Getting my full 10M down, but im missing about 25% of my upstream speed i suppose... with a near 40 dB upstream signal.
Oh well... least my connection is finally just about worth the cost  | |
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KoRnGtL15
Premium
join:2007-01-04
Grants Pass, OR | Powerboost makes me happy..... Nice little feature to finally have. What is not making me happy though. Charter ignoring the 20mb/2mb customers like myself and not giving us a 1mb upload increase as well. | |
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| Poetique
join:2007-08-05
Birmingham, AL | Re: Powerboost makes me happy..... I don't think they're really ignoring you... but 20/2 and 10/2 are pretty standard now... 5/1 should be a big seller for them. 5 usually comes with no more than 768k | |
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| | KoRnGtL15
Premium
join:2007-01-04
Grants Pass, OR | Re: Powerboost makes me happy..... If they are not ignoring us. It would be nice if they could let us know some thing is in the pipe line for 20mb/2mb users. For they do not feel left out with these upgrades. | |
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| | | Poetique
join:2007-08-05
Birmingham, AL
| Re: Powerboost makes me happy..... I wouldn't count on it... like I said, 20/2 is very standard, and 20/3 would essentially be "giving" users of the service something for what, business-wise, would be no reason.
10/2 is necessary from a competitive standpoint, and 5/1 will be very attractive for ALOT of people (especially gamers I suspect).
20/3 is neither necessary for a competition sake, nor would it be that attractive for many people because the service is expensive and not tremendously popular anyway.
Not to mention a bunch of 20/3 users would probably put a significant strain on existing servicing hardware.
Hey maybe you won't have to worry about speeds dropping during peak hours or something (if you even have that issue now, I personally don't... a speed drop for me is dropping to 10/1 MB even whereas I usually get 10.2/1.25 (or well... 10.2/1.7 now) | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Powerboost makes me happy..... said by Poetique :I wouldn't count on it... like I said, 20/2 is very standard, and 20/3 would essentially be "giving" users of the service something for what, business-wise, would be no reason. 10/2 is necessary from a competitive standpoint, and 5/1 will be very attractive for ALOT of people (especially gamers I suspect). 20/3 is neither necessary for a competition sake, nor would it be that attractive for many people because the service is expensive and not tremendously popular anyway. Not to mention a bunch of 20/3 users would probably put a significant strain on existing servicing hardware. I really don't care about more upload on the 20 meg tier, BUT since the difference between it and the 10 Meg ter is now a bit less then Charter nees to make the price difference less. | |
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BoMarty
join:2001-02-01
Ballwin, MO
| Powerboost What to expect?
"double digit speed boost during the first few moments"
So if I am getting 20meg download I would expect 30meg speed for 5-10 seconds? Then it maintains the 20 meg ?
Same for upload, 2 meg upload would get a boost of 3meg up for 5-10 secs?
Any Comcast users report their experience? Is the above what I should expect? | |
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dslhater
Premium
join:2001-09-24
Chicopee, MA
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| Hmm The internet went out here on Sunday night and today. I restarted the modem and I'm getting speeds of 10583kbps down and only 1459kbps up consistently. I hope that upload goes up a little more.
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njeske
join:2002-02-16
Reno, NV
| Upstream increase looks good in Reno, NV Last Result:
Download Speed: 10660 kbps (1332.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1851 kbps (231.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Taken from Speakeasy.net speed test page from Reno, NV to the test server in San Francisco, CA. That's just a hair under double what my upstream speeds were a few weeks ago. Finally Charter is giving us better speeds like everyone else! | |
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| nocannothave
join:2006-10-14
Kennewick, WA | Re: Upstream increase looks good in Reno, NV Cool. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Powerboost is for suckers Just a way for ISPs to make speedtest results SEEM like they are providing advertised speeds. Sorry 30 seconds of powerboosting isn't going to do shit. | |
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BlakePaulson
join:2008-08-06
Alexandria, MN
 ·AT&T Wireless Broa..
·Charter Pipeline
| Another Charter Joke! Bullshit that I pay the most for my charter service out of all the tiers and they conveniently don't give a damn...
Why not give us at least more download speed?
Perfect example of why I got rid of Charter TV and went to DirecTV and am now incredibly happy with my TV service. | |
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perki
join:2008-12-01
Santa Maria, CA | Hey Comcast Customers Another case of "It Could Be Worse" | |
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| mystikmedia
Premium
join:2004-06-17
Hampstead, NC
| Re: Hey Comcast Customers I'm actually happy with my Charter service lately. For a while there I was having a lot of problems with downtime, but now the service seems to be reliable again, and the speed is good:
Download Speed: 20643 kbps (2580.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2035 kbps (254.4 KB/sec transfer rate) | |
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| | gopnick
join:2005-01-07
Benton, AR | Re: Hey Comcast Customers Same here... things have changed a lot for my market as well. I'm very happy with my 20/2 service. | |
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i2Fuzzy
join:2009-02-25
Cumming, GA | Meh The only reason *real* I've kept at the 20/2 tier was because of the 2Mbps upload speed. Maybe now I'll drop to the 10/2
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| Darkk
join:2003-10-03
Almont, MI | Re: Meh Yes, especially since I never got anywhere near 20 megs on the download side anyway. 10/2 is all the 20 meg plan ever used to deliver reliably anyway.
What's a boost above a 20 meg speed I can never get going to do for me anyway? | |
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| | i2Fuzzy
join:2009-02-25
Cumming, GA | Re: Meh I've been getting the whole 20, I just don't use it all that much very often.
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| | Chuck_IV
join:2003-11-18
New Milford, CT
| said by Darkk :Yes, especially since I never got anywhere near 20 megs on the download side anyway. 10/2 is all the 20 meg plan ever used to deliver reliably anyway. What's a boost above a 20 meg speed I can never get going to do for me anyway? So true. I've had the same results over the last 6 months or so. I'm guessing they have finally oversold my area because my speeds nothing like they used to be.
When I first got the 20mbps service, I got that or very close to it. Nowadays, I barely get 12mbps at time with an "occassional" sniff at 16+mbps. I've talked with the guy in the Direct forum and short of having someone come out and check my line, he had no answers. I know it's not my line because I was tested about 3 months ago when they installed the phone service.
Anyway, this "boost" if you will is nice, but personally I'd rather see them put that money to better use... like building out the system so I actually GET the 20mbps service I pay for. | |
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Umatter2Chtr
Premium
join:2009-01-29
Chesterfield, MO
| Continued Improvements We are continuously enhancing our HSI services. We launched 60 Mbps earlier this year, we increased our Max speed from 16 to 20 for free, and now we have plans to double the upstream speed on our 5 and 10 Mbps services. And we are launching Powerboost. There will be more enhancements to our HSI service. I don't have specifics or timing yet, but you have more to look forward to from Charter. | |
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lolatidiots
join:2005-12-14
Glendale, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Re: Continued Improvements what does this mean??????? why do you talk about increasing speed when your infrastructure can't support what you offer? are you serious ? do you know how many times i've had to call in in the past to make your people try to understand what you offer isn't what you deliver? | |
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| | guitar94
join:2009-10-09
Mount Pleasant, TN | Re: Continued Improvements Cant support? I have the 5/1 but i get speed test results of almost 6/1.5. I think it can!  | |
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lolatidiots
join:2005-12-14
Glendale, CA
·AT&T U-Verse
| Re: Continued Improvements you're a clown, why dont you pay for 20 megs and see how often you actually get it?
just cause you get 5 megs doesn't mean their network can handle the tiers they flaunt on tv commercials saying "we have the highest speeds available" and our "fiber optic network"... yea and my veins my body are fiber optic too. | |
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bandit8623
join:2004-09-08
Elk River, MN
| ping good to hear. my service has been great so far. but the only thing i have issues with is how my routing to game servers isnt that great. chicago is good, but to east coast locations im barely under 100 ms. on my old dsl i was under 70 anywhere in the country. 50 ms to ny. 40 dallas. 75 portland. now im at 60 dallas. 80 ny 100 portland. anyway you guys can do a better job of routing? | |
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lolatidiots
join:2005-12-14
Glendale, CA
·AT&T U-Verse
| that's just great, now fix your network to support it all that's left is to actually deliver 20 megs! for about 6 months ot of the year, the speeds are terrible, night.. day.. and you can always trace something to a qwest problem in burbank, congestion.. hasn't happened in a while but it was probably being throttled, they rarely deliver the 20 megs, even from local sites, their offer is ok, 20 megs down, 2 megs up.. but if your network can't handle it, then dont offer it, i was fine with 10 megs -- the network didn't blow then. | |
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stillwaiting
| Where's the difference? I have Charter HSI 5MB service in Massachusetts. I rebooted my modem this morning and did a quick speed check. I'm still at 512Kbps upstream. Although this is an improvement over the previously anemic 256Kbps from the last time I checked in the spring.
The ping times have always been an issue for me - once you go outside the Charter infrastructure that is. | |
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