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I spoke too soon

Wednesday April 18, 2007 @ 09:16 PM (PDT)

You know what I said before about broadband sucking in the Silicon Valley? I take it back. Comcast turned on our connection yesterday, and while they advertise it as 6Mbps/384Kbps, I'm actually seeing speeds as high as 12Mbps/1Mbps!

Maybe I just have good Internet karma.

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I believe what you are seeing is known as Power Boost. When Comcast detects that you are using a lot of bandwidth, (such as downloading a large file) Power Boost will kick in giving you a temporary boost of extra speed. This tends to throw off a lot of the speed testing sites.

So, while you're probably not really getting 12Mbps, you are when it counts. (when you're actually using it)
Thursday April 19, 2007 @ 02:53 AM (PDT) Posted by Daniel E. Renfer

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So that's what that was!!! I was wondering why I was occasionally experiencing bursts of bandwidth, but wrote it off as inaccurate reporting due to buffering.

Thursday April 19, 2007 @ 11:06 AM (PDT) Posted by D
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