Rogers cable modem speed

[James Knott]

Aaron Vegh wrote:
> 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.
>
The results will often depend on the time of day.  For example, if you
try just after the kidlets get home from school, you won't do as well as
in the middle of the night.  However, as my results show, I'm getting
about the limit.

> 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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