Comcast is Epic Fail

[Rob Oplawar]

with a capital F.

My roommate and I pay $30 a month, and it's going to increase to $50/mo in 6 months, and the service is supposed to give us 4mb/s download speed which is itself pretty lame, but we're getting fucking 300kb/s. And we called and complained, and the technician came out, and said that he couldn't find a single thing wrong with it. He said our connection was fine. He said there was no problem. We're getting fucking 300kb/s download speed, and he says there's nothing wrong, and what's more is that since he didn't find anything wrong now we have to PAY him.

The worst part is that Comcast has a fucking monopoly here. There are literally no other options except fucking dial up.



EPIC FAIL.

[DrunkenSamus]

News flash...I have it too. And I get 500-600 kbs on good sites.

[Atty]

Shut up, I'm tired of hearing your damn Comcast problems. <MAD>

[InnerGoat]

Uh, yeah. You do know that most sites won't max the download out, right? :v

edit- Also, http://www.speedtest.net/result/184390835.png

[Kornman00]

luwalz

[alby]

Definitely not epic Fail.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9103/download424mbv2jn7.jpg

http://www.speedtest.net/result/157901832.png

[Kornman00]

cheater :saddowns:

[Dr Nick]

Definitely not epic Fail.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9103/download424mbv2jn7.jpg
Yes epic fail! That's IE!

[Patrickssj6]

Hey, stop wining.

How does 80$ a month for 50kb/s down sound to you?

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[Rob Oplawar]

You guys say stop whining- it's... what I do. I thought you guys would have figured that out by now XD

Seriously tho when I finally moved out of my parents' house and into the dorm I was most excited that I wouldn't have to put up with my parents' shitty internet anymore. Well, wrong, the dorm connection was no different. Shit. So I went back to my parents' for the summer, and waited and waited, and finally the day came when I could move out and get my own internet and be in control of getting a good connection! But no, Comcast has the monopoly, and all they're giving me is this shitty connection and even shittier service, and now it is impossible for me to play a game on XBL without lagging out halfway through. Sorry WoL, Leet, and Boba, if my connection keeps up like this, there's no way it's gonna be able to handle friggin campaign mode over XBL.

[Dal]

I've heard of no speed issues perse with Comcast.

Also *cough.

[Agamemnon]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184547341.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:confused:

I will admit though, I was having the worst problems with the connection for the past three weeks. For no odd reason whatsoever my connection speed decided to go all AOHell 56k on me (paying $30 myself as well). I had a technician each week, and each one replaced my modem, my connector, and said everything was fine and they didn't know what was wrong with it. It's just that it magically decide to suck like ass all of the sudden. Then one day, BAM, and now it's back to normal. Doesn't mean I'm happy with the service though. If it happens again (that was the second time it's happened) I'm canceling.

[NullZero]

I can't get above a connection of 1.1 MB/s. The company the owns the telephone wire won't change it and it can't cope with higher speeds which pretty much leaves me stuck.

[Digikid]

The solution is quite simple...change to a better ISP.

[NullZero]

The solution is quite simple...change to a better ISP.
Talking to Rob or me?:confused:

[Digikid]

well.....BOTH of you if you are not happy with your ISP.

[Bill Slowsky]

Ha! And with all the propaganda we help them do. Well well, if you say it's as slow as you say it is, then I'll have to talk it over with the missus about switching Internet service providers. I'm always looking for some "me" time.

By the way, Jim's son from accounting wasn't kidding. This site is great!

[InnerGoat]

The solution is quite simple...change to a better ISP.Would be nice to have a second option here, lol. Its Comcast or nothing, and they know it. Ever since the massive Adelphia buyout, its been pretty good for me.

[Bill Slowsky]

Hey, if Bellsouth is in your area, I recommend them. Definitely. You won't be disappointed. Preferably the DSL package too.

[InnerGoat]

Their DSL is an option, but just not at my house. Its available just afew blocks away, I think.

[jcap]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184390835.png

Powerboost.


Definitely not epic Fail.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9103/download424mbv2jn7.jpg


Cache.

[InnerGoat]

Powerboost.



Cache.What about it

[Agamemnon]

What about it
He wants to ban us because we have Comcast. :(

[Bastinka]

You complain? Heck i get 85.5 Kb/sec on good servers. Not comcast though, thats not available where I live (In the sticks.)

[Bill Slowsky]

You complain? Heck i get 85.5 Kb/sec on good servers. Not comcast though, thats not available where I live (In the sticks.)
That's way too fast. Slow down there Speedy Gonzales.

[Bastinka]

85 is fast?
Everyone calls me slow. I used to have dial-up and I was so excited when I got 85kb/sec. I loved it, everything went from 18 kb/sec to 85 kb/sec. I don't mind it although people call it slow.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

[Bill Slowsky]

85kb/s? Are you kidding? That's way too rich for my blood. I'm not sure who you're trying to kid here. Seriously. Go sell crazy some place else.

[Timo]

I have the best internet my copper cables can muster, and I normally get around 60-90kb/s downloading on most (american) sites. What's even better is that I pay $40USD for it per month with a huge 10gb cap. :awesome:

[Rob Oplawar]

Aha, I have discovered the secret:

Only one of us must use the internet at one time.

Seriously, what the fuck is the point of a router if our bandwidth is so limited that it slows to a fucking crawl if more than one device accesses the internet at the same time? Well, at least I have a friggin epic xbl connection now, assuming my roommate is content to work offline when I want to play.

[alby]

Cache.

Nope, clicked the link and bam...Although that website does use fiber optics, and I have one of the best connections that Comcast offers.

[NullZero]

well.....BOTH of you if you are not happy with your ISP.

No, the people who own the wire won't allow us to change it period. This is because here in the UK, a company named BT owns all of the wires from the exchange server to the house and they won't change that wire so we cannot get a speed about 1.1 MB/sec regardless of our billing ISP. Unless you have cable, you can't escape it. Unfortunately, we neither have cable laid down around here :\.

[Xetsuei]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184802520.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
With uTorrent running.

[legionaire45]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184828287.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
Steam seems to have some issue with connecting to the authentication servers or something, because for every server I try to connect to it will randomly give me 2000 ping for no reason. It will sometimes decide to connect even though it supposedly has 2000 ping, but for the most part it just wont connect =/.

[NullZero]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184830759.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[InnerGoat]

I have the best internet my copper cables can muster, and I normally get around 60-90kb/s downloading on most (american) sites. What's even better is that I pay $40USD for it per month with a huge 10gb cap. :awesome:Nice. I think I downloaded that much in the last two days. :)


Aha, I have discovered the secret:

Only one of us must use the internet at one time.

Seriously, what the fuck is the point of a router if our bandwidth is so limited that it slows to a fucking crawl if more than one device accesses the internet at the same time? Well, at least I have a friggin epic xbl connection now, assuming my roommate is content to work offline when I want to play.
Get a real router. Whatever you have now is garbage.

[4RT1LL3RY]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/184995063.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
Ours is worth the $30 a month in my opinion. But it sucks when split with my bandwidth whoring sisters, damn you torrents and your laggy ways.

[Rob Oplawar]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/185028227.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
Sigh. Meh. I still want a better connection, but at least it isn't complete crap anymore.

[Abdurahman]

This is in my school, Santa Monica College. Theres hundreds of computers surfing the web at any one time, and heres the speed.

Fucking :awesome:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/186139918.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Xetsuei]

Wow. That must be DS5.

[Abdurahman]

Yeah, it is blazing fast. It sure leaves my 1.5 mb connection at home in the dust.

[TPE]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/186164351.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

I'm not going to complain about that.

[jcap]

Nope, clicked the link and bam...Although that website does use fiber optics, and I have one of the best connections that Comcast offers.
Yes, it is from your cache, or IE fucked up and miscalculated your download time. It IS impossible to date for that to happen under any Comcast home broadband service. You downloaded a 40MB file. That means that if you were to download it in one second, the server would have to have at least a 320 mb/s dedicated line to you. They'd have to have an OC-12 line on the server, which is reasonable, especially for huge corporations, but the other half of it is you don't have an OC-12 line. You probably don't have anything greater than 20 mb/s (even with PowerBoost). Still, even if you both had lines capable of supporting the data speeds, other users on the server would take their toll, and to prevent one user from stealing all the resources, servers typically have speed caps to make sure everyone gets a fair share. Furthermore, your hard drive would probably even have difficulty writing it at that speed.

Bottom line: That is one of the misleading pictures when it comes to connectivity speeds. Nothing adds up other than the facts that prove it false.

[Abdurahman]

Yes, it is from your cache, or IE fucked up and miscalculated your download time. It IS impossible to date for that to happen under any Comcast home broadband service. You downloaded a 40MB file. That means that if you were to download it in one second, the server would have to have at least a 320 mb/s dedicated line to you. They'd have to have an OC-12 line on the server, which is reasonable, especially for huge corporations, but the other half of it is you don't have an OC-12 line. You probably don't have anything greater than 20 mb/s (even with PowerBoost). Still, even if you both had lines capable of supporting the data speeds, other users on the server would take their toll, and to prevent one user from stealing all the resources, servers typically have speed caps to make sure everyone gets a fair share. Furthermore, your hard drive would probably even have difficulty writing it at that speed.

Bottom line: That is one of the misleading pictures when it comes to connectivity speeds. Nothing adds up other than the facts that prove it false.

Yeah, I have a 1.5 mbps line, and when I download something, in the first second it shows like 600kBps, but then it drops to 150 kBps, which is my natural d/l speed. In fact it happens to everyone, but that super high not normal speed is just a miscalculation.

EDIT: Today is Friday, so theres a lot less students on campus and on the computers. Heres the speed now.:awesome:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/186414425.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[erbic]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/187155366.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

It's not abysmal, but there are times when it could be faster. For some reason I can't host ANYTHING on Xbox Live, and running BitTorrent somehow slows everything down on my network. And Comcast is definitely throttling and/or blocking my BitTorrent, because there are times when it'll say there are a bunch of seeders but I can't connect to any.

I can't wait for Verizon to get off their asses and run FiOS out here. I'm in the middle of nowhere though, so that could take a while.

[StankBacon]

Nice. I think I downloaded that much in the last two days. :)


lol in the past 2 days, i have downloaded about 20 gb.

[KIWIDOGGIE]

for me, COMCAST = MEGAFAIL. Crappy TV, Internet randomly disconnects ALOT. Thats why Im using Verizon FiOS now. I am happy and my old tv looks very clear now. :D

[Kybo_Ren]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/187227643.png

[Rob Oplawar]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/connectivity/hong-kong-fiber-optic-rates-prove-verizons-fios-is-a-rip+off-303358.php

[Kybo_Ren]

That 1Gbps line doesn't mean you will get 1 Gbps, though....

Here's a better measure of my speed:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1093/termservclustercq4.png

And once I get Internet2 working on one of the lab machines I'll give you gigabit speeds ;)

[Revord]

One of the problems with cable, esp. Comcast is that the speeds depend on how many people in the neighborhood are using it at the same time. Also, it depends on the connection speed of the other end where you are downloading from, the lines inbetween, etc. I would tend to assume that on a college campus, you are never going to see high download rates in the dorms. Only in the faculty areas. Even then, the best places to get good rates are going to be less populated, rural areas. The less people on the network, the better.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Revord

[Emmzee]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/188303402.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Kybo_Ren]

One of the problems with cable, esp. Comcast is that the speeds depend on how many people in the neighborhood are using it at the same time. Also, it depends on the connection speed of the other end where you are downloading from, the lines inbetween, etc. I would tend to assume that on a college campus, you are never going to see high download rates in the dorms. Only in the faculty areas. Even then, the best places to get good rates are going to be less populated, rural areas. The less people on the network, the better.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Revord
I've gotten 20Mb/s down and 30Mb/s up in my dorms...
And I think the LA area has some of the most congested Internet traffic in the world :confused: