[PLUG] Comcast speed upgrade

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sat Jan 7 04:51:35 UTC 2017


An email arrived this afternoon from xfinity (Comcast) telling me that 
they are upping my speed from 75 Mbps to "up to 100 Mbps" after I 
reboot. These are download speeds. They provided directions:


1.

Shut down your computer &
unplug your modem from the outlet

2.

Wait 10 seconds, then plug your modem back in

3.

Wait 30 seconds, then turn your computer back on


Before going through that process I ran the test at speedtest.net on two 
machines in the house:

Machine Ping      Download     Upload
Wife's Win97     17 ms     91.29 Mbps    6.1  Mbps
My Ubuntu 14.04  20 ms    119.02 Mbps    6.18 Mbps

I ran mine a second time and got

                   9 ms    119.62 Mbps    9.19 Mbps


So, without shutting anything down I get better than promised speed on 
my machine, and close to it on my wife's machine.

Is there likely to be any change if I shut down my router, their cable 
modem, and start them back up?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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