[PLUG] Comcast speed upgrade

[Denis Heidtmann]

You might ask them "What else are you doing?"


-Denis

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> 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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