Comcast 8Mbps cable service

So last night I endured the 15 minute phone conversation with a Comcast rep to sign up for "Game Invasion", which includes the 8Mbps download speed "upgrade". I didn't have the heart to tell the rep that I couldn't care less about all their games. I just wanted more bandwidth, something that I couldn't seem to find Comcast offering in any way other than "Game Invasion".

The cool thing is that (they claim) I'll pay $29.95 for the next three months, rather than the $42.95 they normally charge for the 6Mbps. After that it'll go up to $52.95/month.

If I'm not seeing better performance after 3 months, I can always go back to "standard" service.

So far in my speed tests, I've only come close to the 8Mpbs download rate once. However, I appear to appear to have more downstream bandwidth than before, where their claimed 6Mpbs rarely got above 4Mbps.

In addtion, my uploads are consistently at 700Kbps, which makes me happy.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2006
  Hello Matt
  
  You should move to Belgium, end of January we will have cable connections granting us a download speed of 20Mbps for a price of €59,99. Anyway what I use to test my download connection is the Performance test from Giganews. At the moment my download speed is 10Mbps and I get a download of around 10300Kbps
  
  You can find the connection test page here:
  http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html
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