My Cable Modem Speed Report

[ScottW]

Okay... Here it is. I wish my up was around 768 though.

[mdnky]

That's one thing I definitely miss from DSL, the upload speeds of 768K to 1M, and the stability. I may have 5Mb/s now on cable, but it's rare to see more than 3.5Mb/s or so max down—more often than not I'm lucky to see 1Mb/s (darn shared connection)—if it is even working to begin with. The max upload I've had is usually 20K, 30K if I'm lucky. Absolutely annoying and way too slow if you ask me.

Scott, are you on standard cable or fiber-based cable?

[fryke]

If you want your upload speed to be the same as your download speed, get a network-capper that limits your download speed. Ah, no, that's probably not what you want. (I'm just jealous. My ADSL is 1200 down now, will be 3500 down at the end of March, it seems. Upload speed sucks here, too.)

[ScottW]

I have Cable service. I upgraded to the Premium package, 8/512 instead of 5/368 for regular service for not much more per month. Figure I would give it a try and see if it works like I want. If not, Ill drop back down.

[mdnky]

Our cable here is still 4M/128K and 5M/128K (at least that's what they claim). Not to far down the road there's a Fiber based service that's doing 6M/512K ($39/mo) and 10M/768K ($59/mo). Not quite as nice as Verizon's FIOS service (( 5M/2M @ $35/mo; 15M/2M @ $45/mo; 30M/5M @ $180/mo )), but still better than what I currently have.

I wish Verizon would get in here and update things for FIOS, but I'm not holding my breath (BR is too small of a market). 15Mb/sec down and 2Mb/sec up would be like a dream. {someone pinch me}

On a side note: I've heard DSL in Cincy (where I'm from) is raising to 9M/2M soon. Its at 3M/768K now...it figures they'd upgrade after I moved. So if you live in the Cincy Zoomtown's area, you're probably going to have a nice surprise soon.