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DeltaMac

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I found my cable modem off-line this morning. Restarted, and Comcast is now 3 Mbit download speeds! Woo-Hoo! I am in the Baltimore region, and read about this increase for Comcast a month or two ago, but today is it for me! Now, I can read my eMail a lot faster ::ha::
 
Ripcord said:
How do you know it's so much faster?
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Good Question! I just go to THIS PAGE , click on the Bandwidth Meter button, and see speeds of between 3000 and 3200 Kbps. Before today, always about 1500 to 1700 Kbps. You can test yours also. Not the only speed test on the net, and others may show somewhat different results. I think it's a valid means to compare other broadband ISPs, not because it's totally accurate, but just a comparison. I knew this upgrade was coming, I just wasn't sure when, on-line notice said by the 1st of December in most areas of the US for Comcast.
 
Just to add a more international view on the topic... ;-) Cablecom Switzerland upgraded my 600/200 kbps line to 2048/400 this week! Wooohooo!
 
Status:
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Bandwidth = 4662.9 Kbps

:O~~~

I love university leased lines. He he. Next time I'm at home, I'll have to check the cable modem and see if ours is running any faster.
 
Status:
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Bandwidth = 1647.2 Kbps

Hopefully that will be doubled in the beginning of December.

All I want for Christmas is another 1500Kbps :)
 
I'd settle for just 1647.2 right now :p

Status:
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Bandwidth = 814.8

I'm guessing my speed will get bumped up somewhere around the same time yours is, Bob.
 
so does this only affect Comcast in the DC/Baltimore area or does it affect all comcast customers. I haven't noticed any difference here in the Nashville area. However we were down the other night.
 
Comcast is going to double their speed in all their locations;

Here are the Comcast 3mb download rollout dates:
Atlantic
Market Name Market Date
Pittsburgh (Tri-State) 08/04/03 -
Chesterfield, VA 10/22/03 -
Elyria, OH 11/01/03 -
Baltimore, MD 12/01/03 -
Washington, DC 12/01/03 -
Richmond, VA 10/22/03 -
Miami, FL 11/01/03 -

East Market Name Market Date
NJ North, NJ 11/03/03 -
Reading (PA West), PA 11/03/03 -
NJ South, NJ 12/01/03 -
Phila Metro, PA 12/01/03 -
Hartford, CT 11/01/03 -
Hamden, CT 12/30/03 -
Northeast, MA 01/27/04 -

Midwest
Market Name Market Date
Detroit 1 (Mich A), MI 10/01/03 -
Independence, MO 10/01/03 -
Muncie, IN 10/01/03 -
Olathe, KS 11/01/03 -
Detroit 2 (Mich B), MI 12/01/03 -
Chicago, IL 12/15/03 -
Michigan, MI 12/16/03 -
Indianapolis, IN 12/23/03 -
Fort Wayne, IN 12/30/03 -
Minnesota, MN 01/27/04 -
Indiana, IN 12/15/03 -

Mountain
Market Name Market Date
Pima (Tucson), AZ 10/15/03 10/15/03
Albuquerque, NM 10/17/03 -
Dallas, TX 12/02/03 -
Denver, CO 12/05/03 01/05/04
Salt Lake City, UT 11/01/03 -
Portland, OR 01/20/04 -
Seattle, WA 01/02/04 -

South
Market Name Market Date
Knoxville, TN 07/01/03 -
Atlanta, GA 08/22/03 -
Dallas, GA 10/01/03 -
Hattiesburg/Laurel, MS 10/01/03 -
Lake County, FL 10/01/03 -
Meridian, MS 10/01/03 -
Mobile, AL 10/01/03 -
Panama City, FL 10/01/03 11/01/03
Savannah, GA 10/01/03 -
Tuscaloosa, AL 10/01/03 -
Little Rock, AR 10/17/03 -
Naples, FL 10/17/03 10/20/03
W. Florida (Srsta), FL 10/17/03 10/20/03
Charleston, SC 11/01/03 -
Paducah, KY 11/15/03 -
East Tenn, TN 12/02/03 -
Huntsville/Florence, AL 12/23/03 -
Tallahassee, FL 12/29/03 -
Augusta, GA 12/30/03 -
Chattanooga, TN 12/30/03 -
Nashville, TN 12/30/03 12/22/03
Jacksonville, FL 12/15/03 -

West
Market Name Market Date
Sacramento, CA 12/01/03 -
Bay Area, CA 12/16/03 -
Southern California 01/13/04 -
 
C'mon, Earthlink, get with the program! :mad:

:rolleyes: Oh well... at least Safari loads stuff quite a bit faster than IE, and even IE in OS 9 on my iMac is faster than IE in OS 9 on the G3. Much faster. So it's like having extra bandwidth, I guess.
 
DSL in Canada blows cable out of the water. Cable here in my area 1.5Mbit down/128Kbit up, DSL ultra 3.5Mbit down/800Kbit up.

Cable used to be 3Mbit, but Rogers cut the speed in half, upped the price by $5.00 per month and ripped off all their customers.
 
Comcast lied to us for over 6 months ending in termination of our service. It's a long, bitter story. At&t was so much better, whenever we had a problem they'd credit our account for the whole month.
 
Status:
Test completed…
Bandwidth = 4326.6 Kbps

Cox High Speed Internet
Virginia USA

I'll have to check when I'm at work on Monday…

;) :D
 
1555 kbps

Comcast
Nashville, TN

I can't wait for the boost in late december. They've got billboards here advertising that its "Now Even Faster."
 
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