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ThisGuy · Feb 24, 2005, 08:03 PM

from 256Kbps/3Mbps to 384Kbps/4Mbps.... for free. Woo!

http://faq.comcast.net/faq/answer.js...1&CM.src=email

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Sherwin · Feb 24, 2005, 08:08 PM

Wow. A whole 11 kbps bump on your actual download speed. I'm impressed!

rozwado1 · Feb 24, 2005, 08:11 PM

Comcast wows the crowds once again.

ThisGuy · Feb 24, 2005, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Wow. A whole 11 kbps bump on your actual download speed. I'm impressed!

i know. right? awesome! now i can download porn that much more quickly.

Sherwin · Feb 24, 2005, 08:15 PM

rozwado1

Dude, your sig is pissing me off.
There's still some of us who don't want the whole of the 'net turning into a porn palace.

tooki · Feb 24, 2005, 08:18 PM

Too bad Comcast's network is down half the time. When I had it, it went down for a day or more every two weeks.

tooki

Kenneth · Feb 24, 2005, 08:20 PM

My DSL provider upgraded mine from 1.5Mbps down/512Kbps up to 3.8Mbps down/608Kbps without extra charge.

ThisGuy · Feb 24, 2005, 08:25 PM

Originally posted by tooki:
Too bad Comcast's network is down half the time. When I had it, it went down for a day or more every two weeks.

tooki

if it happens between 7 am and 4 pm i don't really care.

OldManMac · Feb 24, 2005, 08:25 PM

Time Warner/Road Runner/Bright House just kicked ours up, from 3Mbps to 5Mbps a couple of weeks ago, and they've been extremely reliable in the 4 years i've used them.

olePigeon · Feb 24, 2005, 08:44 PM

I have a 3Mbit/768Kbit DSL that's a bit cheaper than Comcast even with the phone line you have to purchase. If you already have phone service, it's a lot cheaper.

MacMan4000 · Feb 24, 2005, 09:32 PM

Cable Modem = the best thing since sliced cheese�

ManOfSteal · Feb 24, 2005, 09:37 PM

I just "upgraded"...WOOT!

Mastrap · Feb 24, 2005, 09:43 PM

My first ever connection to teh Interweb was a 14.4 modem and a CompuServe account. Now I've got a 5mbit cable connection and routinely transfer more than the entire capacity of my first ever HD (40MB).

TheBadgerHunter · Feb 24, 2005, 09:47 PM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
rozwado1

Dude, your sig is pissing me off.
There's still some of us who don't want the whole of the 'net turning into a porn palace.

The whole 'net IS a porn palace, and thats the way ahuh ahuh I like it.

Sherwin · Feb 24, 2005, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
The whole 'net IS a porn palace, and thats the way ahuh ahuh I like it.

Well, I suppose if you're sad enough to need it 'coz you can't get laid in real life then it's OK for you.

MaxPower2k3 · Feb 24, 2005, 10:03 PM

Also on Comcast in the Union/Verona area:

2005-02-24 21:02:38 EST: 3499 / 309
Your download speed : 3583421 bps, or 3499 kbps.
A 437.4 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 316756 bps, or 309 kbps.

edit: my dad has RoadRunner in Brooklyn and says it's much faster than Comcast.

olePigeon · Feb 24, 2005, 10:08 PM

I didn't have internet when I first started. 4200 baud modem on mah Apple //e.

Dialed into my friend's priate board and downloaded games.

malvolio · Feb 24, 2005, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by KarlG:
Time Warner/Road Runner/Bright House just kicked ours up, from 3Mbps to 5Mbps a couple of weeks ago, and they've been extremely reliable in the 4 years i've used them.

I've been with RoadRunner for a little over a year now, and during that time they have gone from 1.5 to 3 to 5 Mbps.
Me like!

Shaddim · Feb 24, 2005, 10:30 PM

Originally posted by olePigeon:
I didn't have internet when I first started. 4200 baud modem on mah Apple //e.

Dialed into my friend's priate board and downloaded games.

Word. Those were the good old days. I used to own/sysop a multi-node pirate board, heavily modded WWIV. In some ways it was better than the Web (much more "intimate"), it definitely had it's own charm.

starman · Feb 24, 2005, 10:45 PM

Originally posted by tooki:
Too bad Comcast's network is down half the time. When I had it, it went down for a day or more every two weeks.

tooki

In the 6 years I've had Comcast I've never had anything that bad happen once.

"down half the time"???

Mike

TheBadgerHunter · Feb 25, 2005, 12:23 AM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Well, I suppose if you're sad enough to need it 'coz you can't get laid in real life then it's OK for you.

I suppose if you're sad enough to sleep with everything you see you don't need it..

E's Lil Theorem · Feb 25, 2005, 01:00 AM

Cool beans. They haven't done my area yet (Bay Area, CA), but I guess they have until the end of March before I can complain

meelk · Feb 25, 2005, 01:01 AM

the guy with rob zombie in his sig is worried about people mentioning porn? hahahahahahaa

OwlBoy · Feb 25, 2005, 01:13 AM

Originally posted by meelk:
the guy with rob zombie in his sig is worried about people mentioning porn? hahahahahahaa

Its the whole "As long as the movie don't have nudity my kid can see it... even if it has people being disemboweled in it" mentality.

-Owl

Sherwin · Feb 25, 2005, 01:19 AM

Originally posted by meelk:
the guy with rob zombie in his sig is worried about people mentioning porn? hahahahahahaa

Nope. Displaying porn on a supposedly "family friendly" site without due warning. There's standards to be kept.
Mention it all you like as long as you don't force others to look at it.

Sherwin · Feb 25, 2005, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Its the whole "As long as the movie don't have nudity my kid can see it... even if it has people being disemboweled in it" mentality.

MacNN is now a movie?

Oh. And nudity ain't porn. At least not outside America.

E's Lil Theorem · Feb 25, 2005, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Nope. Displaying porn on a supposedly "family friendly" site without due warning. There's standards to be kept.
Mention it all you like as long as you don't force others to look at it.

Since when is girl-kissing porn? Or are you talking about some other sig of rozwado1 that I haven't seen?

Sherwin · Feb 25, 2005, 01:24 AM

Originally posted by E's Lil Theorem:
Since when is girl-kissing porn?

Check it when it comes around again. It sure ain't sweet and innocent girl-kissing - it's from a porn set.

Kenneth · Feb 25, 2005, 01:29 AM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Check it when it comes around again. It sure ain't sweet and innocent girl-kissing - it's from a porn set.

Are you MarcUK on AI?

Sherwin · Feb 25, 2005, 01:30 AM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
Are you MarcUK on AI?

No idea what you're talking about dude. I got the "Are you" and the "on" but the rest just went over my head.

malvolio · Feb 25, 2005, 01:50 AM

2005-02-25 00:47:46 EST: 4660 / 349
Your download speed : 4772528 bps, or 4660 kbps.
A 582.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 357963 bps, or 349 kbps.

Oops, looks like I veered back on-topic.

AppleOptionFour · Feb 25, 2005, 01:50 AM

I just wanted to let everyone know i am going to bed now....

ok...well good night

tooki · Feb 25, 2005, 02:30 AM

Originally posted by starman:
In the 6 years I've had Comcast I've never had anything that bad happen once.

"down half the time"???

Mike

Hardly an exaggeration, I'm sorry to say. In some places, it's down all the time. I had to call Comcast to get downtime credit nearly every billing period. It was just awful. (And that was after waiting 2 months for them to even put in an order to get cable hooked up, because their system forgot that my apartment existed, and without them sending a surveyor to confirm that the building in fact has a third floor, they couldn't even put in an install order.)

The two weeks before I moved out of that apartment, my cable was completely dead (TV and internet), and it took them two weeks to get someone out to fix it. I cancelled it one day after it was fixed.

Then they proceeded to "lose" the disconnect request in the system, and tried to bill me for 4 months of service after I moved out. It took hours of calls over a two-month period to get that mess straightened out.

Comcast may offer high speeds, but in some areas their reliability is lousy (it can vary from neighborhood to neighborhood), and the quality of the company is abysmal.

tooki

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Feb 25, 2005, 02:40 AM

What does it cost you a month for that speed?

OldManMac · Feb 25, 2005, 02:41 AM

I'm not sure if I'd move anywhere that had Comcast as the only broadband provider. I used to hear horror stories all the time from customers, and several of my friends, who worked out of their homes, and needed broadband access, were constantly down. One friend just bought another house, and WOW was available there, and he hasn't had any problems in six months!

malvolio · Feb 25, 2005, 02:43 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What does it cost you a month for that speed?

Me, $45 per month as part of a package with RoadRunner's cable TV service.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Feb 25, 2005, 02:58 AM

Originally posted by malvolio:
Me, $45 per month as part of a package with RoadRunner's cable TV service.

That's rather high but for 4 megs it sounds almost ok as long as they don't have caps.

malvolio · Feb 25, 2005, 03:03 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
That's rather high but for 4 megs it sounds almost ok as long as they don't have caps.

My service is actually 5 Mbps down. And no caps whatsoEVAR!

(Or at least none that I have encountered - personal best is about 15 GB downloaded in one day.)

Link · Feb 25, 2005, 03:39 AM

2005-02-25 02:39:13 EST: 2407 / 418
Your download speed : 2465657 bps, or 2407 kbps.
A 300.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 428676 bps, or 418 kbps.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests...com/1109317152

Wish I could afford a faster line.. heheh!

His Dudeness · Feb 25, 2005, 03:51 AM

Originally posted by Mastrap:
My first ever connection to teh Interweb was a 14.4 modem and a CompuServe account. Now I've got a 5mbit cable connection and routinely transfer more than the entire capacity of my first ever HD (40MB).

300/400 baud modem. And I had to actually type ATDT at a command prompt to dial in to the local bulletin boards in town.

ThisGuy · Feb 25, 2005, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What does it cost you a month for that speed?

too much. CHSI is the broadband. Without a cable TV subscription the fee jumps to 55 USD.

RAILhead · Feb 25, 2005, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
I suppose if you're sad enough to sleep with everything you see you don't need it..

One of the benefits of being married, mien kapitan: sex with wife.

Maury

MaxPower2k3 · Feb 25, 2005, 12:16 PM

Luckily, Comcast has gotten more reliable for me recently. It used to be pretty bad, but it rarely goes down anymore. That said, their customer support is a nightmare. It took 6 weeks of calls for them to finally make an appointment (and remember it) to bring me an HD cable box with firewire (something not a single rep i talked to had heard of, and many were adamant that it didn't exist and refused to transfer me).