Cable Modem Speeds have increased

Yesterday I was having all kinds of problems with my internet connection. I felt is was a deja vu all over again like I had with my DSL last christmas. That’s when I switched to cable because my dsl went down for 4 days at christmas! However after a few hours of problems I was notified that they were actually upgrading the system and now I am gettting impressive speeds.

Here is my results from broadbandreports.com

2005-12-23 13:39:30 EST: 5943 / 858
Your download speed : 5943 kbps or 742.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 858 kbps or 107.3 KB/sec.

I went from having 2,000 kbps a few days ago to now roughly 6,000 kbps without paying more for it! What I love even more is my upload speeds. The speed went from 256 kbps to now almost 900 kbps! That may not seem like a lot but its huge when you sending large emails, uploading files to cvs or ssh!

I also found out that for $10 more a month I can get 16 mbps download and 2 mbps upload! I was going to get FIOS from the phone company but everyone I know that has FIOS, hates it! It’s down all the time and the bigger problem is that the latency. I will have to do my homework to make sure thats not the same issue with the new extreme package from the cable company!

However, to be honest, the speeds are not that noticable when surfing the web (as the bottleneck is on the server side). The performance really comes handy when you’re downloading files!