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Comcast - Upsteam increase to 3 megs?

June 12, 2008

Good news Comcast users. Yesterday, while conducting several bandwidth speedtests over at www.speedtest.net I noticed something pretty interesting.  The upload speeds on my Comcast cable modem was pushing 3 megs!  This is significant in that just days ago it was around 1/2 that.  I first noticed it yesterday (June 11, 2008) while uploading a 95meg tutorial video I had just created to the Blip.tv and YouTube.com sites.  The very large movie file just seemed to zip right to both websites.

Now I don’t have a business account but do pay an additional $10 per month for a tad more bandwidth/bursting over a normal account.  I did notice downstream seemed to peg out at around 22-26 megs, which is pretty significant.  This, of course, changes around mid-evening but never get really lower than 16 megs.  Still, for me, the move to 3 megs upstream is a better option for me.  Right now, 16 - 26 megs down is serving me VERY well.

How’s does your speed look compared to this?  Go over to Speedtest.net and see. So far, I’m happy with Comcastic!

My setup:

  • Connection:  Wireless Buffalo brand Ethernet bridge at computer
  • Buffalo wireless router on the other end
  • Comcast provided cable modem

Written by Gordon Medley · Filed Under Internet, Technology 
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2 Responses to “Comcast - Upsteam increase to 3 megs?”

  1. Ross on June 17th, 2008 7:08 pm

    I noticed an increase as well. Was uploading at 768kbps and now I’m upwards of 2000kbps. Sweet.

  2. Pat on July 2nd, 2008 7:10 pm

    This really isn’t new.. Power Boost has been provisioned in DuPont since 2006. But I can tell you my UP is about 10Mb for the first 10MB’s and then drops back to the provisioned upload speed. However my download tonight for example is 38342kbs.. pwned…

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