Re: Internet download/upload speeds

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What other aspects than speed are there Booth.

I have found that my cable performance often improves rapidly after a short "discussion" on speed with the cable company. Last time I did it it went from a measured speed of 1.2Mbs (it is supposed to be up to 15Mbs) right up to about 18 before settling out at about 12 on average. 

Seems to me that so much of their "speed" is software controlled these days that by accident or design your connection speed can get hosed. When we got a new service recently they warned us in the welcome package that we might see higher and lower speeds, than we were paying for, over the first 5 or 6 days  while the connection "settled in" and learnt our usage patterns.


On 2013-07-15, at 3:29 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What are reasonable expectations and suggested alternatives?
>
> Currently I have Internet service through my local cable provider and I 
> am very satisfied with all aspects excepting upload/download speeds, 
> which have fallen precipitously this year.   Speedtest.net gave me a 
> measurement of .39 Mbps download and .43 Mbps upload a few minutes ago.
>
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