[ale] Comcast speeds

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:15 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> Am I reading this right... Comcast now has 12Mb down?  I've been seeing
> numbers like this ever since some crazy packet loss issues yesterday
> early AM.  In the past it was only 6Mb down locally.
> 
>      http://www.speedtest.net/result/105157074.png
> 
> Sure hope it stays like that. ;-)


Under certain conditions.  It is called "SpeedBoost."  It is a burst
rate--the norm is still 6 Mbps, AFAIK.

    -- Mike

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