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I’ve been seeing more of Comcast’s business cable service and noticed an interesting trend. When first installed the services often register speed tests upwards of 15Mbps - and impressive speed and well above the service level. What’s interesting is if you retest the same line a few months later, I’ve finding they’re “only” doing ~6Mbps - at the service level.
This of course leads me to wonder if Comcast is trying to “wow” new customers with blistering speed, only to bring it back down to the service level’s speed with time. It might sound farfetched, but keep in mind Comcast has been intentionally slowing Bittorrent user’s connections - why not this too?
The Author: Kevin Selkowitz
About: Kevin Selkowitz is the founder and lead consultant for Selkowitz Technology, a Seattle-area small business systems consulting company. We focus on the four major technology needs of small businesses - phone systems, phone and internet service, servers/network infrastructure, and business applications.
This entry was posted by Kevin Selkowitz, on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm and is filed under Phone and Internet Services. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response on the right, or trackback from your own site.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Kevin, You hit the nail on the head. There are so many providers that want to “wow” us with speed, however when you then start to use the speed for which it is intended, the connections falls apart. This is and has been my experience.