{"id":504,"date":"2010-10-13T21:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=504"},"modified":"2010-10-13T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:42:42","slug":"comcast-vs-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/comcast-vs-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast vs Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently hooked up internet in a location without Fiber and had to go to Comcast. It’s the first time I’ve used their service since I was in high school so I was hoping it had improved.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly they said I could get 20 Mbit fiber which was awesome. My fiber was only 15 Mbit. So I got everything setup and quickly ran a speed test<\/p>\n

Comcast 20\/5<\/h2>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertised: 20\/5
\nActual: 5\/2<\/p>\n

Strangely I only got 5 Mbit. I thought it might be the server so I hoped on my old fiber connection and ran the same test:<\/p>\n

BroadWeave 15\/15<\/h2>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertised: 15\/15
\nActual: 13\/10<\/p>\n

Traffic Shaping<\/h2>\n

I was disappointed by the big loss of speed from Comcast. I expected them to fall short of advertised (everyone does) but to fall all the way down to 5? I lost 75% of my speed while fiber sat around 15% loss. That’s awful but at least I should be able to stream video.<\/p>\n

I connected to my file server which is where I store my legally obtained digital content and started streaming. Uh-oh, even though the server can pump out 1500 KB\/s I can only get 125 KB\/s when going through Comcast. I checked from a few other locations and got stellar speeds which means Comcast is traffic shaping. Other locations give me quite a bit better speed, in the 1500 KB\/s range but when I hit my server all of the sudden traffic shaping kicks in and my speed tanks. <\/p>\n

Monopoly<\/h2>\n

Enjoy your monopoly now Comcast, or should I say Xfinity, because as soon as anyone has choice it will quickly become apparent that your internet offering is subpar. I don’t need a company deciding what traffic of mine is worth my bandwidth, that’s my business. Further, I think I ought to make a complaint to the BBB about your outrageous speed discrepancies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently hooked up internet in a location without Fiber and had to go to Comcast. It’s the first time I’ve used their service since I was in high school so I was hoping it had improved. Surprisingly they said I could get 20 Mbit fiber which was awesome. My fiber was only 15 Mbit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"psp_head":"Comcast vs Fiber \u2013 Today Was Awesome<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I recently hooked up internet in a location without Fiber and had to go to Comcast. It's the first time I've used their service since I was in high school so I was hoping it had improved.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/comcast-vs-fiber\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}