Woo Hoo I got the Comcast upgrade today!

Posts: 156 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 30, 2005 Posts: 156

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Over the coming weeks Comcast will be upgrading all of our High-Speed Internet Service customers from 3Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream to speeds as fast as 4Mbps downstream and 384Kbps upstream - at no additional charge.

And by March 31 all Comcast custormers will recieve this upgrade!!
Just power cycle your modem for new speeds.
My QOS went from an average of 30% to now 96% Very Happy

And from 2 simutanious calls to 4!
My Vonage line is "Smoking" now... Very Happy

Posts: 492 · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:

Congratulations! We're still waiting for it here in Denver. The best I can get out of customer service is, "You should have by the end of March. Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it.

Posts: 156 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 30, 2005 Posts: 156

Well I got the same answer but then saw this at dsl reports

At this time, the following markets are confirmed to have been upgraded to the new speeds shown above:

AL - Huntsville; Mobile; Tuscaloosa
AR - Little Rock
AZ - Pima
CA - Stockton, Fresno, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco
CO - all CO
CT - all CT
DC - Washington DC
DE - all DE
FL - West FL; Lake County; Jacksonville; Miami; Naples; Panama City; Tallahassee; Sarasota
GA - Atlanta; Augusta; Dallas; Savannah
IL - Chicago
IN - All IN
KS - Olathe
KY - Paducah
MA - Boston
MD - all MD
MI - Ann Arbor; Auburn Hills; Detroit; Flint; Springfield
MN - all MN
MO - Independence; Kansas City
MS - Hattiesburg; Meridian
NJ - all NJ
NM - Albuquerque
OR - all OR
PA - Central & Metro (Philadelphia); Pittsburgh
SC - Charleston
TN - East TN; Chattanooga; Knoxville; Nashville
TX - Dallas
UT - all UT
VA - all VA
WA - all WA

I see Colorado is DONE!! Try power cycling your modem

Posts: 79 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 79

Got the upgrade here!!!

Comcast in Chicago

Posts: 115 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 115

Is power cycle necessary? I am in the San Franicsco suburbs and seem to now get the 350k upload but download stilll suffers (sub 2.3M) depending on test. 2wire gives less than 700, vonage-forum gives about 1.6-2.1M, watching broadband reports give about 2-3M. Buddy over in SAn Fran (35 mies away) gets way over 3+ consistently from 2wire.

Posts: 126 · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:47 am Post subject:

Yeah when it got offered here in Portland, Oregon, I got it PLUS paid the extra $10 to increase to 6mbps down and something like 786 up. Makes quite the difference. My QOS went up as well and it says I can support 9 quality calls.

Posts: 27 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Nov 27, 2004 Posts: 27

winger wrote:

Is power cycle necessary? I am in the San Franicsco suburbs and seem to now get the 350k upload but download stilll suffers (sub 2.3M) depending on test. 2wire gives less than 700, vonage-forum gives about 1.6-2.1M, watching broadband reports give about 2-3M. Buddy over in SAn Fran (35 mies away) gets way over 3+ consistently from 2wire.

What make/model modem do you have? If you have an older modem that is not DOCSIS 2.0 or better, you should upgrade your modem and that would resolve your bandwidth constraints.
The latest Motorola Surfboard SB5100 is a good choice...

Posts: 115 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 115

jfullam wrote:

winger wrote:

Is power cycle necessary? I am in the San Franicsco suburbs and seem to now get the 350k upload but download stilll suffers (sub 2.3M) depending on test. 2wire gives less than 700, vonage-forum gives about 1.6-2.1M, watching broadband reports give about 2-3M. Buddy over in SAn Fran (35 mies away) gets way over 3+ consistently from 2wire.

What make/model modem do you have? If you have an older modem that is not DOCSIS 2.0 or better, you should upgrade your modem and that would resolve your bandwidth constraints.
The latest Motorola Surfboard SB5100 is a good choice...

this is what I have.

on 2wire.com I avg 400k down
on broadbankreports I avg 3900k/360 down/up at speakeasy
on vonage-forum I avg 2100/355 down/up

My buddy (35 miles away) consistentently hit very similar #'s between all three sites above( down/up) - something does not seem right here.

Posts: 193 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 28, 2005 Posts: 193

I power cycled, but ERR.
Firmware won't upgrade.
Renting from Comcast.

Posts: 196

seattlezoid wrote:

Quote:

Over the coming weeks Comcast will be upgrading all of our High-Speed Internet Service customers from 3Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream to speeds as fast as 4Mbps downstream and 384Kbps upstream - at no additional charge.

And by March 31 all Comcast custormers will recieve this upgrade!!
Just power cycle your modem for new speeds.
My QOS went from an average of 30% to now 96% Very Happy

And from 2 simutanious calls to 4!
My Vonage line is "Smoking" now... Very Happy

Eat your heart out. Twisted Evil

I'm on the gold tier with 6 meg down and 768 up for another $10/month. I'm amazed at how nice it is to have that much bandwidth for uploads. Lol