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
Gallery
