delimare
10-26-2006, 02:51 PM
This seemed like the most logical place to put this, move it if it’s not in the right place. I was with Time Warner recently before Comcast came in and bought them out in this area. I had an 8mb down connection with TW that I would always max out provided the upload speeds were there. Now that I’m Comcast (still with an 8mb down connection) I am only downloading at 5-6mb. On top of that, Comcast has this thing thing called PowerBoost. Your download speed is doubled, 6mb to 12mb and 8mb to 16mb. PowerBoost is enabled at the moment (it happens when the network is considered “idle”) as you can see here in this screen shot.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2640/speedtestpc5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I’m pulling damn near 20mb down. But, when I open uTorrent it only maxes out at 5-6mb. I have a very bad feeling that I’m getting throttled…
BTW, I do understand the logic behind downloading speeds and how they're only as good as the uploaders. But, I know for a fact that if I'm pulling 25-30+ well seeded torrents off of TL that I WILL get at least 10mb if not more of download speed. The upload bandwidth is there, but again, I think this damn ISP is throttling it.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2640/speedtestpc5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I’m pulling damn near 20mb down. But, when I open uTorrent it only maxes out at 5-6mb. I have a very bad feeling that I’m getting throttled…
BTW, I do understand the logic behind downloading speeds and how they're only as good as the uploaders. But, I know for a fact that if I'm pulling 25-30+ well seeded torrents off of TL that I WILL get at least 10mb if not more of download speed. The upload bandwidth is there, but again, I think this damn ISP is throttling it.