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Old 2010-02-20, 09:11 PM   #1
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I thought it seemed faster. Anyone else with Ch@rter in the same boat? I used this test. It's usually only 10 down 1 up.
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Old 2010-02-20, 09:29 PM   #2
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They must have done work near you or something. Or a massive number of people near you switched to DSL.
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Old 2010-02-20, 09:45 PM   #3
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Ummm,yeah. WOW!!

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Old 2010-02-20, 10:14 PM   #4
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Old 2010-02-20, 10:23 PM   #5
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Ummm,yeah. WOW!!

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Mine's almost that fast now too.

We have Ch@rter Business at work and we're only getting the normal 10 down 1.5 up.
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Old 2010-02-20, 10:40 PM   #6
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I'm sure they will find the mistake, fix it, and charge us accordingly.
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Old 2010-02-21, 03:15 AM   #7
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Cody, expect your bill to be twice as much now. And expect them to tell you "we're sorry we only offer the new superhighspeed service at this new price now, we can't give you your old plan any longer. We don't care if you don't want or need so much throughput since we desperately need an excuse to raise your rates".
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Old 2010-02-21, 08:05 AM   #8
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My Charter is still 8k and 1k.
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Old 2010-02-21, 11:37 AM   #9
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Cody, expect your bill to be twice as much now. And expect them to tell you "we're sorry we only offer the new superhighspeed service at this new price now, we can't give you your old plan any longer. We don't care if you don't want or need so much throughput since we desperately need an excuse to raise your rates".
That would suck. It's still 20 down, 2 up.
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Old 2010-02-21, 11:38 AM   #10
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It's still 20 down, 2 up.
Me too, Normally 10~14 down.
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Old 2010-02-21, 01:02 PM   #11
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Same here. 19k down, 1k up. I am sure we;re not paying for more than the 5 or 8 meg service. Yet.
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Old 2010-02-21, 05:51 PM   #12
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Could it be that you're getting more bandwidth due to numbers of other Charter users who weren't on at that time, due to lost power?
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100221/NEWS15/100221012
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Old 2010-02-21, 06:00 PM   #13
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Seems unlikely. There aren't that many people without power today I don't think. We haven't had any outages around here anyway, AFAIK.
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Old 2010-02-22, 05:04 PM   #14
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Old 2010-02-22, 05:50 PM   #15
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Here is mine(Charter):
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Old 2010-02-22, 05:53 PM   #16
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I thought it seemed faster. Anyone else with Ch@rter in the same boat? I used this test. It's usually only 10 down 1 up.
Here is mine on WIMI (also with charter):

Download Speed: 11489 kbps (1436.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
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Old 2010-02-22, 06:48 PM   #17
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2.5/0.421 for my DSL using Cody's test. Take that Tyson.
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Old 2010-02-22, 07:07 PM   #18
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I get this on the speedtest.net test

When I do the http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ I get
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Download Speed: 21786 kbps (2723.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2120 kbps (265 KB/sec transfer rate)
Why are they so different? or is my KB/MB translation wrong.




edit: I had a torrent open while doing the speed test

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Old 2010-02-22, 07:15 PM   #19
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Interesting

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Old 2010-02-22, 07:32 PM   #20
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It seems to vary a bit. Still fast though.

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Old 2010-02-22, 07:36 PM   #21
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Cody's test gave me 21768kbps down/ 2080kbps, 50ms ping
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Hrm... it is fast. Not sure what I'd use that for... except streaming netflix I guess.
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Hrm... it is fast. Not sure what I'd use that for... except streaming netflix I guess.
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Old 2010-02-23, 02:17 AM   #24
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You said it!!
Well, as long as the movie isn't skipping, it's not like having more bandwidth is going to let me watch the movie faster.
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Old 2010-02-23, 08:26 AM   #25
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It seems to vary a bit. Still fast though.


I could really care less about "speed test" results. Cody, what download speed are you getting with your torrent program?
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