[mythtv-users] Way OT: High-speed Data Service Delivery

James Oltman cnlibmyth at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 14:07:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:

> On 2011-07-12 8:45 AM, James Oltman wrote:
> >
> > Just make sure you're getting what you pay for!  My company payed Comcast
> a LOT of money to run fiber directly to our main office.  We're supposed to
> be getting 50Mbos synchronous.  We are getting a little less than half that.
>  The only way I knew how to test was to use bittorrent to grab ubuntu ISOs
> and usenet to grab more free isos.  And some might be thinking, "Well no
> kidding!  It's Comcast Business."  Comcast fiber is a different department
> than their business department.  And I have to say, we have not had ANY
> unscheduled outages.  They have had stupendous uptime.  Now if only they
> could give me the bandwidth I payed for...
>
> I'm on ComCast Biz -- so far, they've been delivering the promised
> bandwidths. When I test, I'm getting about 38down/24up.
>
> When I was downloading my CentOS6 ISO's yesterday, after about 20min, you
> could see the rate throttling kicking in and limiting to a little above my
> "paid for" rate.
>
> I had a tap auditor that was supposed disconnect the house behind me
> disconnect me instead. It was fixed the same day. (and the second wrong
> disconnect my technician had to undo that day.)
>
>  -Ben
>
> p.s. for comparison: In 1995-1996 when I worked for a software startup in
> Downtown Chicago, we got out Class-C IP's and T1 (1.544Mb/s for those of you
> who may not know) and it was about $2000/mnth
>
>
Are you on their business tiered cable?  I just upgraded my home to 50/10,
and i'm barely getting 18Mbps down?!
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