Holy ****. I don't mean to brag, but I was reading
http://www.broadbandreports.com/ and noticed that they have a forum dedicated to my cable company. To my surprise it there was a number of active discussions,
and one senior network administrator from Cogeco was hanging out there as well! He was talking to people (customers), asking for feedback on speeds and uptime, and in general letting the people know what Cogeco is up to. Anyways, before I tell you what he has been grinning about, here is a little history:
Cogeco's standard package used to be 2000/128, then 2000/384, then 2500/384, and then (at this time) 4000/320. The pro package, which is quite new, is 4000/640.
Back to the story, the guy wasn't about to give out details, but he said "something was up," in a sort of annoying way with a smirk on his face, obviously having fun with us because it is a surprise. People have been testing out the connection speeds, and reported a variety of different things. I myself was startled last week that I managed to break 500 kb/s on one modem and get 560 kb/s.
Well, it is now pretty "unofficial" that the cable company is raising the speed limit again, from 4 Mbps to 6 Mbps. It is unknown whether the upload speed will be changed. So in the next few weeks they will be doing test runs by putting people on 5 and 6 Mb lines.
What is their reason? Well, he says that they want to be 4X faster than DSL. Bell, the biggest DSL provider, instituted a 5 GB cap 6 months ago and is about 1 Mbps. After loosing probably half their customers (which switched to cable or other DSL), they realized they seriously messed up and as of August 1 the cap has been removed and the speed has been upped to 1.5 Mbps. Since the cable company wants to stay 4X faster than the DSL company, they have to raise their limits 4X from 4 to 6 Mbps.
eh.
