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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)

Daniel E. Renfer

Thursday April 19, 2007 @ 02:53 AM (PDT)

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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.