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post #151 of 175
8/6/12 at 5:53pm
Very misleading, That's the fastest I've seen it most of the time it's like your saying 2-3MB.
My upload is 6mb most of the time.
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8/6/12 at 6:01pm
This is the fastest I can get and the upload speed sucks compared to other ISP's.
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8/6/12 at 6:06pm
General question to the people complaining about upload speed, do you actually do something that needs it? I am just curious, me for example, i host a minecraft server and exchange server
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8/6/12 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by USFORCES View Post

I have 25MB+ download from comcast but the fastest I've ever actually downloaded anything was 5MB so what good does it do, lol

Better if they just doubled the upload...

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25mbps = 25 megabit (not byte) per second... 8 bits to a byte... so roughly 3.1 (as someone else stated).

Mb/s does not mean MB/s.
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8/6/12 at 8:59pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by USFORCES View Post

Very misleading, That's the fastest I've seen it most of the time it's like your saying 2-3MB.
My upload is 6mb most of the time.

Not really misleading, it's been the "universal" unit of measure. There are 8 bits per byte, internet providers simply measure in megabits per second rather than megabytes. So, 25 mbps (megabits per second) would be divided by 8 to get 3.125 megabytes per second. I'd agree that megabits is an easier and more appealing unit to advertise with. Marketing is all mind tricks tongue.gif
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8/9/12 at 3:33am
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Quote:
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Meanwhile in Denver,
25mb still costs me 77.50/month and rarely actually get's up to full speed.
Good times.

I just got mine the other day and im up in NH, maybe yours is in the works still

Yeah, right. Verizon doesn't have FIOS anywhere near us and, as far as I know, doesn't have any plans to change that in the near future, along with most of the Western US. That means that Comcast has no competition here and therefore no reason to improve our internet.
I don't expect to see any serious internet improvements in the West for a few years at least.

If you hear anything, though, let me know! wink.gif
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8/9/12 at 3:52am
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The only way Internet will improve in the Midwest is if Google rolls out fibre to more cities. A lot more. And they probably knew that too, if they wanted faster service in these areas they'd need to install it themselves.
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8/9/12 at 4:52am
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This is the fastest I can get and the upload speed sucks compared to other ISP's.

I would love to have your speeds. Having powerboost is lame, The whole I thought they upgraded me from 16mb to 25mb. and it was just powerboost was added to our account.
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8/9/12 at 5:09am
Now when is Uverse going to up their speeds?
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8/9/12 at 5:23am
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Yeah, right. Verizon doesn't have FIOS anywhere near us and, as far as I know, doesn't have any plans to change that in the near future, along with most of the Western US. That means that Comcast has no competition here and therefore no reason to improve our internet.
I don't expect to see any serious internet improvements in the West for a few years at least.
If you hear anything, though, let me know! wink.gif

i cant get FIOS near me though either, and the only other isp that i can even get is 1.5mbps dsl lol
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