My cable internet plan is for 5 Mb/s download speed and that is what I used to consistently get give or take. Lately, when testing at speedtest.net and a couple of other testing programs, the speed will hover at 5 Mb/s a couple of seconds and then spike sharply higher. I've seen it go as high as 57 Mb/s but usually it goes up to between 20-26 Mb/s. Upload speed is now consistent at around 1 Mb/s (without spiking) when I usually had half that. This is happening on a couple of computers since they share the same modem (all wireless). Is this an indication that perhaps the modem might be going bad?

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You sure its not some type of power boost? I know comcast will up the speed for the first 20mb of a file or test, either upload or download, then thereafter it will go back to its normal speed. Who is your provider?

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My provider is Charter. Maybe they are trying something like power boost, I didn't think of that. I'll ask them about it. I was hoping this wasn't a classic symptom of a modem going bad. Thanks.

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I'd say it's more likely to be something wrong with the test. The speed boost thingies will usually increase speed from 5 to 8 or 8 to 10, or something small like that. Maybe your ISP is tinkering with things on their end and that's freaking the test out.

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I finally found out that Charter just introduced a speedboost feature to their internet customers - at least in my area. The boost speeds were all over the map at first but have seemed to level off now to about 3X - 4X download and 2X upload. Thanks for the replies.

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this aint fair

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lol orn you must be ***** , you have like 56K.. and ATI FFS ATI!!! ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!ATI!!!




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AVATAR THIEF!!!!

and yeah 56k is kinda like the broadband here

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Here in the next few weeks im upgrading my Comcast to 50Mb download and 10 Mb upload. Now thats some screaming internet.

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I'M UNGRY!!!!!!!

cvsi3 YOU TRAI.......oh forget it

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RBR . My comcast connection Raid 2+0 > My Comcast provider connection is consistent according to SPEEDTEST.NET runs go .

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Edited: 11/04/2009 at 08:17 PM by pcnazz

Well, like I said, I'm all over the map in download speed. LOL.
(Sorry Orn!)



EDIT: I'm not complaining though as my plan is for 5 Mb/s down and .5 Mb/s up.

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Edited: 11/04/2009 at 05:27 PM by RBR

Who ever is regulating the speed needs to get a consistant caffine drip and stop hitting the espresso shots...LOL

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LOL.

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wow comcast is killing everyone with their internet speeds.. thats ridiculous...

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