Re: List of Comcast speeds in Chicago, IL (North side near I-94: Addisson/Irving Park/ area)

[PC <paul4004 () gmail com>]

The folks in the forums at dslreports.com are generally on top of this like
a hawk and are probably a better resource than here.  For what its worth,
Comcast often provides temporary speed enhancements for the first so many
bytes in x seconds, ("powerboost"), which can often throw off short
flash-based speedtests.


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Ishmael Rufus <sakamura () gmail com> wrote:

> Could someone help verify the listed speeds for the different services
> for Comcast:
>
> Performance - 20mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 15mbps)
> Blast - 30 mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 20 mbps)
>
> I was getting 20+ download speed tests on Performance which is correct.
> When I told customer support I was getting half (because of packet loss)
> they brought this other information to my attention