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Posted by Richardson on February 20, 2005, 11:29 am
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On 2/20/05 11:17 AM, in article L9-dnetimtGXJYXfRVn-1Q@comcast.com,
> All...I thought I would share a few things...
>
> 1) I upgraded to Comcast Gold - but I was not getting the download speeds
> of 6000...more like 3000 to 4000. The uploads were avg 730 up. It was
> suggested that a tech come out to measure signal strength. So I scheduled a
> tech to come out to check my signals...in the meanwhile...I was out of town
> all last week. When I came back - my speeds were around 5000 on avg. The
> tech came out this morning and said they had been working on the nodes last
> week and that may explain my speed increase.
>
> 2) Originally - when I had HSI setup - they installed an amplifier in my
> house. The tech noticed it and said that since Comcast has done all the
> field upgrades - the amp is no longer needed for HSI, and may actually hurt
> service. He said it's ok for TV - but not needed for HSI. He bypassed the
> amp for the cable modem service - and yes - speeds jumped up to 5500 on
> average.
>
> 3) He was ok with me having a router - but to be clean we bypassed the
> router and went PC to Cable Modem for all the work and testing. When we put
> the Linksys BEFSR11 ver 1.1 (firmware 1.46.02, Aug 03 2004) router back into
> the mix, the speeds seem to slow down a bit - and there is clear latency
> issue - where it is now taking longer to load and refresh pages. Now I am
> avg 5400 - with a clear delay in loading and refreshing pages compared to
> not having the router in the mix.
>
> Has anyone else seen a diff between with router and without router?
Well...I run a Netgear router in my config on Gold tier, and speeds are
never faster when I connect the modem directly to the computer; so I don't
think that a router necessarily causes latency or slower download speeds. In
my view the inability to achieve the 6mb advertised download speed is (at
least in my case) a Comcast problem...especially because my pings to
comcast.net vary tremendously...sometimes averaging 35 ms and other times
150-250 ms.
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