Looky at these speeds...

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:45 pm

Sometimes it's nice to be where I am!

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:29 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Sometimes it's nice to be where I am!

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I'd kill for those kind of speed Leatherneck ... Lucky You

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minir

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:42 pm

HD movie in 3-4 secs

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:45 pm

Is this some kind of business account or residential? What package are you paying for? That's insane!

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:54 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Sometimes it's nice to be where I am!

don't you work for comcast ?
is that at your office ?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:17 pm

Nice to be sitting right at the main regional gateway eh?

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:39 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Nice to be sitting right at the main regional gateway eh?

No kidding. You can't fool an old fool.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:21 pm

This is not my house, I wish. I am a Comcast Headend Tech yes. It is a test of the 1GB service. We darn near hit 1.2Gb at peak. "If " something like this were available to the public right now, this would be crazy expensive. There are test markets (Google) offering 1Gb with fiber to the premise for a reasonable price but obviously extremely limited.
It will happen eventually. It's so fast that it's freaky when using.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:55 pm

You would need a huge torrent with a ton of seeds, or a ton of smaller torrents at once to really utilize that at home! We can all dream!

Thinking youll need a higher and PC also to really capitalize on the browser side, Maybe up the connection limit in the browsers?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:15 am

morbidpete wrote:You would need a huge torrent with a ton of seeds, or a ton of smaller torrents at once to really utilize that at home! We can all dream!

Thinking youll need a higher and PC also to really capitalize on the browser side, Maybe up the connection limit in the browsers?

Bet I could peg out Astraweb

Someone Else · Post by **Someone Else** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:03 am

Congratulations! Here's what I get with the Blast! package:

— Comcast takes my $55 each month and then screws me.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:00 am

Odd first post.. me thinky troll or multi.

That is not indicative to even the worst case scenario. Something very wrong and likely on your end. Bad router is a good place to look.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:17 pm

So only ~37mins to hit the 250GB cap?

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:01 pm

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TV (all Premium channels + Internet= $100 a month)

Someone Else · Post by **Someone Else** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:22 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Odd first post.. me thinky troll or multi.

That is not indicative to even the worst case scenario. Something very wrong and likely on your end. Bad router is a good place to look.

Think what you want — it's only odd because you happen to work for the company that blames everything and everyone else for such problems. I've had 5 techs here within the past month and they must learned at the same place you did.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:41 pm

Someone Else wrote:Think what you want — it's only odd because you happen to work for the company that blames everything and everyone else for such problems. I've had 5 techs here within the past month and they must learned at the same place you did.

Maybe give him a case # and see if he can look into it? It's not odd that he works for the company that you're pissed off at. He doesn't know your issue(s).

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:58 pm

Someone Else wrote:Congratulations! Here's what I get with the Blast! package:

— Comcast takes my $55 each month and then screws me.

LOL that must suck being you

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:07 pm

Someone Else wrote:Think what you want — it's only odd because you happen to work for the company that blames everything and everyone else for such problems. I've had 5 techs here within the past month and they must learned at the same place you did.

Probably a line issue right on your street, or the line going to your house, or inside your house...how it's run to the modem, possibility of bad or improper use of splitters.
I'm a reseller for many different ISPs..across a few different states...and out of all of them, Comcast is my favorite to work with, does the best job, has the least amount of issues. Many of my clients are on Comcast bandwidth...and I have the least issues with them. They're my first choice of bandwidth providers to use. If I know the job I have to do involves Comcast...I can breath a sigh of relief. If I know a job I have to do involves another ISP.....I usually dread that day with most of the other big ISPs, because I know it will be a cluster $%^& and involve tons of my time.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:12 pm

Dan wrote:LOL that must suck being you

That's why I blocked you. Typical ******** post.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:22 pm

Someone Else wrote:Think what you want — it's only odd because you happen to work for the company that blames everything and everyone else for such problems. I've had 5 techs here within the past month and they must learned at the same place you did.

Nope, I work at the headend where the product originates. I work on and touch the equipment that sends and receives to your home. Those speeds are the result of something like Stonecat is referring to. While it is certainly possible that "your" service is crappy, all I am saying is that we don't provide those speeds. It's not even possible for something like that to leave my building without alarms, tickets and immediate action. You likely have an RF issue and also likely very close to your premise or the entire area would be screaming. Try and refrain from the ignorant assumptions also as it adds nothing to the conversation.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:18 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Sometimes it's nice to be where I am!

http://home.comcast.net/~tgfmo/speed.jpg

Sweet.

Someone Else · Post by **Someone Else** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:01 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Nope, I work at the headend where the product originates. I work on and touch the equipment that sends and receives to your home. Those speeds are the result of something like Stonecat is referring to. While it is certainly possible that "your" service is crappy, all I am saying is that we don't provide those speeds. It's not even possible for something like that to leave my building without alarms, tickets and immediate action. You likely have an RF issue and also likely very close to your premise or the entire area would be screaming. Try and refrain from the ignorant assumptions also as it adds nothing to the conversation.

This is exactly the type of response I would expect from someone like you. Obviously everyone should believe whatever you happen to tell them, and clearly since I don't I'm classified as being ignorant. I wouldn't expect you to try and understand anything about the issues I've had with Comcast or what I've been through either. This is what is wrong with corporations these days; I simply stated my connection was unsatisfactory and you immediately go on the defensive. Do you really expect to solve problems this way? Oh, I forgot — you guys don't do that anymore.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:03 pm

Someone Else wrote:This is exactly the type of response I would expect from someone like you. Obviously everyone should believe whatever you happen to tell them, and clearly since I don't I'm classified as being ignorant. I wouldn't expect you to try and understand anything about the issues I've had with Comcast or what I've been through either. This is what is wrong with corporations these days; I simply stated my connection was unsatisfactory and you immediately go on the defensive. Do you really expect to solve problems this way? Oh, I forgot — you guys don't do that anymore.

I don't mean to be gruff. I am not a customer care person or even a customer facing tech. I am in engineering and only look at this from an edge equipment stand point. I'm not saying you don't have issues rather that the issues you are experiencing are not because "Comcast Sucks" This is the general attitude when someone has an issue and no one will convince them otherwise unless a problem is fixed to their satisfaction. We also have chronic complainers looking for eternal credit who do nothing but sit on forums swearing 24/7. Do you know if anyone has done a test right off the tap? If it's good there then it isn't difficult to figure out. If the whole trunk or feeder run was performing like yours you can bet it would be a priority plant fault.

I did not call you Ignorant but statements like this are indeed ignorant. "I've had 5 techs here within the past month and they must learned at the same place you did."

I could look at your service from work but I'm sure I'm too ignorant to be trusted...

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:38 pm

RaisinCain wrote:That's why I blocked you.

whatever you did to "block" me did'nt work,
so please put me on your "ignore list".

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:43 pm

Someone Else wrote:This is exactly the type of response I would expect from someone like you. Obviously everyone should believe whatever you happen to tell them, and clearly since I don't I'm classified as being ignorant. I wouldn't expect you to try and understand anything about the issues I've had with Comcast or what I've been through either. This is what is wrong with corporations these days; I simply stated my connection was unsatisfactory and you immediately go on the defensive. Do you really expect to solve problems this way? Oh, I forgot — you guys don't do that anymore.

if you have a problem with Comcast,then contact them! but don't come here and attack a respected member here just because he works there !

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:11 pm

Leatherneck wrote:Odd first post.. me thinky troll or multi.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:53 pm

I'm pretty happy

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bfallona · Post by **bfallona** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:15 pm

Hoo Rah and well said. As a recent retiree, I had to look into trimming my costs and the first area I looked into was tv and internet. Having switched from my tel company last yr I can state that Comcast is by far the best internet I have ever had. I was getting 125mbs DL until this week when I went to a new Triple Play package. My new speed is 56mbs which is more than enough for streaming tv and internet. Having spent 50+ years in retail you are correct that today far too many people complain without trying to work out their problems be it with companies or each other.