Comcast Upload Speeds?

[pinksnowmanshandle]

I'm not sure if the networking forum would be a better place to ask this, I figure I'd try it out here.

 

 

But I'm looking at Comcast's 65mbps down and their 150mbps, I'm sure their internet isn't async unless it is?
Also how often do you get those rated speeds and how large is your city?
Mine's just around 60,000 people.

[Emberstone]

I have 170 mbps down and only around 20-30 up.

 

It be like that sometimes. Thanks, daddy Comcast.

[Jeff Tuma]

lol you live like 30 min away from me if your in Blaine MN. I have Xfinity witch is comcast and my speeds are always good I never have to test my speeds because ive never had any issues. 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

1 minute ago, Emberstone said:

I have 170 mbps down and only around 20-30 up.

 

It be like that sometimes. Thanks, daddy Comcast.

Unfortunately they're the only cable provider in my area. It's either them or CenturyLink for Internet. At least I've got Dish Network and DirecTV for TV because Comcast has Cartoon Network but not Boomerang, strangely enough.
Dish has Boomerang AND Paramount AND GSN for $80/mo.

 

And yeah the last 7 years on CenturyLInk have been disappointing.

[Jeff Tuma]

Just now, pinksnowbirdie said:

Unfortunately they're the only cable provider in my area. It's either them or CenturyLink for Internet. At least I've got Dish Network and DirecTV for TV because Comcast has Cartoon Network but not Boomerang, strangely enough.
Dish has Boomerang AND Paramount AND GSN for $80/mo.

 

And yeah the last 7 years on CenturyLInk have been disappointing.

just use the Internet to watch TV thats what I do, if its not on netfix or hulu I can find it on youtube, vimeo or daily motion

[pinksnowmanshandle]

1 minute ago, Jeff Tuma said:

just use the Internet to watch TV thats what I do, if its not on netfix or hulu I can find it on youtube, vimeo or daily motion

eh there's more reasons than that, frankly I'm not a huge fan of things like Sling or YT TV.

 

I had sling for a few months and Netflix has a lot but it also doesnt have a lot.

[Donut417]

15 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

I'm not sure if the networking forum would be a better place to ask this, I figure I'd try it out here.

 

 

But I'm looking at Comcast's 65mbps down and their 150mbps, I'm sure their internet isn't async unless it is?
Also how often do you get those rated speeds and how large is your city?
Mine's just around 60,000 people.

I get about 20% more than we pay for, we are also on the 150 Mbps plan. Upload in my city is 10 Mbps, which seems to be the most in almost every area of the US. Unless your on the Gigabit plan, then you get a WHOPPING 35 Mbps upload. 

 

My city is about 25,000 or so. BUT a major airport is located in our city. 

[Donut417]

6 minutes ago, Jeff Tuma said:

just use the Internet to watch TV thats what I do, if its not on netfix or hulu I can find it on youtube, vimeo or daily motion

DATA caps my friend. Unless the OP is in rich people ville where they have the Fiber running to homes, and even then it has to be in very very competitive areas. I think most of the north east has a 1TB data cap. $50 extra if you want unlimited, but I heard they have been running deals in select areas. I know this for a fact because all of Michigan is under Comcast's data cap, we are a cord cutting house and use any where from 600 Gigs to 900 Gigs a month. 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

4 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

DATA caps my friend. Unless the OP is in rich people ville where they have the Fiber running to homes, and even then it has to be in very very competitive areas. I think most of the north east has a 1TB data cap. $50 extra if you want unlimited, but I heard they have been running deals in select areas. I know this for a fact because all of Michigan is under Comcast's data cap, we are a cord cutting house and use any where from 600 Gigs to 900 Gigs a month. 

See yeah, I'm the opposite to this cord cutting trend. I've looked into a little and some input from my boyfriend and yeah cord cutting doesn't make sense to me at least.

 

There's really a lot of stuff you cant find on netflix or have to wait for, sure you can get season passes for stuff on iTunes or Google Play Movies and TV and sure things like sling exist.

But again they don't really make a whole lot of sense. You could be paying close to the cost of a basic cable or satellite package going through a lot more hassle.

 

 

For the dish plan I'm looking at and the 150mbps Comcast plan Im looking at, I'd be paying about $135 a month that I'd hope to split with my mom if I can get her to be okay with having satellite tv again, I know it sucks that bad weather does make it often unusable but apparently there are things you can do to help the dish out during storms a little bit.

[GDRRiley]

your going to get ok but not great. While I don't have them expect something like 5-15 matter on city and time of day. (Thanks AT&T fiber that sweet 125/125 or 1gig if I wanted.)

[pinksnowmanshandle]

39 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

your going to get ok but not great. While I don't have them expect something like 5-15 matter on city and time of day. (Thanks AT&T fiber that sweet 125/125 or 1gig if I wanted.)

Well if it's like what the one guy said that's fine. CenturyLink we were advertised 12/7 and got 14/0.80

[scottyseng]

In the Dallas Fort Worth (Texas) area, the 200 Mb/s plan gets around 200Mbps / 20 Mbps (25 if lucky).

While the download speed is great, I stick with Frontier Fios (Great as long as you don't have to deal with the customer service at all), I'm on the 150/150 plan. Usually get 175/175 (Then again, all of my neighbors on my fiber hub changed to Charter Spectrum)

[johnny5c]

46 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Well if it's like what the one guy said that's fine. CenturyLink we were advertised 12/7 and got 14/0.80

We had CenturyLink at our winter home here in Maplewood MN and got about the same results on the same plan, when it actually worked.  I had one of their techs tell me that the whole Twin Cities metro area needs something like 10k miles of line replaced to bring the system up to what would be a acceptable condition.

 

Now on Comcast,

[Donut417]

8 hours ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

See yeah, I'm the opposite to this cord cutting trend. I've looked into a little and some input from my boyfriend and yeah cord cutting doesn't make sense to me at least.

 

There's really a lot of stuff you cant find on netflix or have to wait for, sure you can get season passes for stuff on iTunes or Google Play Movies and TV and sure things like sling exist.

But again they don't really make a whole lot of sense. You could be paying close to the cost of a basic cable or satellite package going through a lot more hassle.

 

 

For the dish plan I'm looking at and the 150mbps Comcast plan Im looking at, I'd be paying about $135 a month that I'd hope to split with my mom if I can get her to be okay with having satellite tv again, I know it sucks that bad weather does make it often unusable but apparently there are things you can do to help the dish out during storms a little bit.

Your right you pay about the same as cable, but in our case that cuts out the $30 in box rental fees. Plus with Hulu you get a digital DVR thats something Comcast wanted $20 a month for. So we are saving a shit ton of money. I think With Comcast and Hulu we pay about a total of about $103 while we were paying Comcast a total of $160 for Cable and Internet. 

 

Basically you have to take in not only the cost of cable, BUT the cost of bull shit fees like the broadcast TV fee, Sports fee and Equipment rental fees, those add up and really inflate the cost. 

[suchamoneypit]

I have comcast and have 150mbps down, 15mbps up.

[beersykins]

I would assume 15-20 up for 150 and maybe 5-10 for 65.

 

The gig package has 40 up which is what I have.  It's largely just a part of how to ration off spectrum space on the shared cable medium, at least until the symmetrical DOCSIS 3.1 stuff is common.

[Donut417]

11 hours ago, beersykins said:

I would assume 15-20 up for 150 and maybe 5-10 for 65.

 

The gig package has 40 up which is what I have.  It's largely just a part of how to ration off spectrum space on the shared cable medium, at least until the symmetrical DOCSIS 3.1 stuff is common.

I got 150 Mbps and only have 10 Mbps officially and 12 with the over provisioning. Comcast is dreadful on upload. Competitors like WOW have like 50 Mbps on most tiers. 

 

Again officially its only 35 Mbps upload on the Gig tier, with more with over provisioning. Though I have heard in some select area's they have opened up more spectrum for upstream. So hopefully that will start rolling out. 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

I got 150 Mbps and only have 10 Mbps officially and 12 with the over provisioning. Comcast is dreadful on upload. Competitors like WOW have like 50 Mbps on most tiers. 

 

Again officially its only 35 Mbps upload on the Gig tier, with more with over provisioning. Though I have heard in some select area's they have opened up more spectrum for upstream. So hopefully that will start rolling out. 

My boyfriend had wow (wideopenwest I presume what you're meaning) and he had issues with them going offline quite often.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

My boyfriend had wow (wideopenwest I presume what you're meaning) and he had issues with them going offline quite often.

Probably a signal issue. Id contact support. To be frank it depends on the area you live in. A Streamer know as SpaltterCat has issues with Comcast about every day, and he lives in the San Francisco bay area. While the Comcast in my area (Metro Detroit) has probably a 95% up time. 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

8 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Probably a signal issue. Id contact support. To be frank it depends on the area you live in. A Streamer know as SpaltterCat has issues with Comcast about every day, and he lives in the San Francisco bay area. While the Comcast in my area (Metro Detroit) has probably a 95% up time. 

eh he has AT&T Fiber now lol