Is there a speed test on Comcast's network?

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Is there a speed test on Comcast's network? Al Puzzuoli 02-19-2005
Posted by AG on February 19, 2005, 10:14 pm
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Sorry, you right it should have been 6Mb (for bits). I'm running SMC7004VBR
and I can't get anything higher than 4Mb. When I disable firewall features
SPI and DoS detection, it goes up to 7Mb.

> You must have a real old model. They should be able to handle 8~10Mb/s
>
> And that's Mb/s (megabit per second) not MB (MegaByte) there is a
> difference and I assure
> you, you are NOT getting 6MB/s from Comcast !
>
> BTW: What is the model and revision of your Router ?
>
> --
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> | Do you have a router? Try connecting your PC directly to cable modem and
> let
> | us know what speed you get. I just found last night that my router can't
> | handle 6MB speeds.
>
>




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Posted by David H. Lipman on February 20, 2005, 5:38 pm
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The SMC Barricade family have 10/100Mb/s WAN ports and should have no problems
with any
DOCSIS speeds. If you are, you may have a defective Router. If FireWall
features are
limiting you then the unit could be defective. A hardware based FireWall should
not degrade
connections as you have noted. The certainly would not have used a 10/100Mb/s
chip-set on
the WAN side if it was not intended to be used with a 100Mb/s connection.

--
Dave




| Sorry, you right it should have been 6Mb (for bits). I'm running SMC7004VBR
| and I can't get anything higher than 4Mb. When I disable firewall features
| SPI and DoS detection, it goes up to 7Mb.




Posted by David H. Lipman on February 20, 2005, 1:21 am
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DSLReports tests download and upload -- Try it !

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

--
Dave




| Hi all,
|
| I live in Michigan and am supposed to be on the Comcast gold 6MBpS down
| plan. I'm getting the gold upstream, but all the speed tests I've done
| over the past week are showing downloads anywhere from 1 to 4 MBPS.
|
| Is there a speed test on Comcast's network that will give me the most
| reliable results and that Comcast tech support will give credence to?
|
| Thanks,
|
| --Al




Posted by riggor9999 on February 20, 2005, 7:10 am
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What kind of Cable Modem do you have? There is a problem with the Gold
service and some models of Cable Modems. Check out
http://forums.comcast.net/forum.jspa?forumID=29. People are getting the 784
up - but are only get 4900 down - not the full 6000

As far as your original question....no Comcast specific test sites..but try
these

http://speedtest.umnet.umich.edu/
http://speedtest.chartermi.net/
http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html
http://nyc.speakeasy.net/
http://www.testmy.net/


> Hi all,
>
> I live in Michigan and am supposed to be on the Comcast gold 6MBpS down
> plan. I'm getting the gold upstream, but all the speed tests I've done
> over the past week are showing downloads anywhere from 1 to 4 MBPS.
>
> Is there a speed test on Comcast's network that will give me the most
> reliable results and that Comcast tech support will give credence to?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Al




Posted by James Knott on February 20, 2005, 9:34 am
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Al Puzzuoli wrote:

> I live in Michigan and am supposed to be on the Comcast gold  6MBpS down
> plan.  I'm getting the gold upstream, but all the speed tests I've done
> over the past week are showing downloads anywhere from 1 to 4 MBPS.

I doubt you've ever had 6 MB/s (48 Mb/s), as that exceeds what DOCSIS is
capable of. Perhaps 6 Mb? Remember, B==bytes, b==bits.



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