Rogers cable modem speed

[Aaron Vegh]

I hadn't seen the Rogers speed test before! You'd think you'd get the
best results from that, assuming it's somehow closer than any other
speed test server. However:

Rogers: 6.5Mbps/803kbps
Speedtest.net 7366kbps/804kbps

I'm a Rogers Extreme customer.

Weird, eh? And the Speedtest interface is about 862 times better-looking. :-)

I was just remembering, as I wrote those numbers, how my first dial-up
modem was 2400bps. We've come quite a ways... unlike with increases in
processing power, bandwidth has dramatically altered what we do with
our computers!

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 6/1/07, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Is anyone else seeing indications that Rogers has boosted the speed of
> > their extreme service from 6 to 8Mbps?  I was just surprised to see
> > this:
> >
> > 76% [163 python-twisted-core 722/753kB 0%]                   884kB/s 42s
> >
> > It managed to go over 900 a few times too.
> >
> > An 80 MB transfer from ftp.ca.debian.org averaged 859kB/s.
> >
> >
>
> According to http://speedcheck.rogers.com/, I'm getting 7.97 Mb/s down
> and 807 Kb/s up.
>
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