+1 rep for comcast...

I got a letter in the mail today from Comcast saying that they recently updated their network in my area and at the beginning of December my speed would increase from 6mbps to 12mbps at no additional charge. I'm not sure how long this is supposed to last but I "power-cycled" my modem and sure as shit, my speeds are much faster. For $40 a month and 12mbps, I can't complain.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642713093.png

Did another test just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642715859.png

Finally we get proper speeds up north, my isp did the same thing same time.

Down south this has been the norm for a while though. I had a 10meg modem then overnight I get this.



TBH speedtest.net is off by about 8-9 mbps

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ uses dedicated servers for this.

ah well i used that other one and got similar results

Last Result:
Download Speed: 21040 kbps (2630 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3017 kbps (377.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

my download speed is only 160 kbps.

TiGGy wrote:I got a letter in the mail today from Comcast saying that they recently updated their network in my area and at the beginning of December my speed would increase from 6mbps to 12mbps at no additional charge. I'm not sure how long this is supposed to last but I "power-cycled" my modem and sure as shit, my speeds are much faster. For $40 a month and 12mbps, I can't complain.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642713093.png

Did another test just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642715859.png

wow tiggy thats fookin expensive m8 £28 a month for 50 mb with virgin

lead wrote:

TiGGy wrote:I got a letter in the mail today from Comcast saying that they recently updated their network in my area and at the beginning of December my speed would increase from 6mbps to 12mbps at no additional charge. I'm not sure how long this is supposed to last but I "power-cycled" my modem and sure as shit, my speeds are much faster. For $40 a month and 12mbps, I can't complain.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642713093.png

Did another test just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642715859.png

wow tiggy thats fookin expensive m8 £28 a month for 50 mb with virgin

errr not if you do the conversion from euros to USD it isn't.

Edge wrote:

lead wrote:

TiGGy wrote:I got a letter in the mail today from Comcast saying that they recently updated their network in my area and at the beginning of December my speed would increase from 6mbps to 12mbps at no additional charge. I'm not sure how long this is supposed to last but I "power-cycled" my modem and sure as shit, my speeds are much faster. For $40 a month and 12mbps, I can't complain.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642713093.png

Did another test just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

http://www.speedtest.net/result/642715859.png

wow tiggy thats fookin expensive m8 £28 a month for 50 mb with virgin

errr not if you do the conversion from euros to USD it isn't.

why euros m8?

shit, im paying $40 a month for 1.5 mb dsl... cable isnt available.

fuck u at&t.

verizon Fi0S in jersey is pretty amazing. way better than cable.
still need to rewire it so it's not on wireless....so its good when i can run a 40 foot cable from pc to modem. but the d/l speeds for torrents are pretty sick

Fiberoptics are slowly but surely making there way around. It's leaving the cities and getting into the rural areas like electricity did in the 1800s/1900s.

Technology always develops,and we still live in a time where hardware and software are pretty neck in neck. Once the hardware overcomes the software (meaning there will be much more horsepower than can even be utilized by any code), and it will eventually happen I would think, well then, there goes the days of PC vs. Consoles (more like just support for one OS over another) and of one grfx card/ processor vs. another, and most, if not all of the lag in internet games.

And such, competitive gamming in the future will be better, will have a more level playing field and developers won't have to worry about supporting thousands of configurations and drivers. Here's to the future, whenever that happens.