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« on: October 10, 2004, 05:17:45 AM »
Does anyone know what the average connection speed of a cable modem should be? I have a cable modem, and my results after I test are never higher than around 2.7 Mbps.....is this average, poor, or good?
     Just curious......... Very Happy
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2004, 07:18:26 AM »
Wrong forum.

The maximum speed of a cable modem is 50 Mbps or so, minimal is 0 of course, so that makes an average of 25 Mbps. If you're not capped.

Considering your speed I'd say you're capped at 3 Mbps. You're at 90% of your advertised speed already, so it's great already. But if you want to tweak, go ahead and get faster. The 3 day average on testmy.net is about 1.3  Mbps, you're way above that.

Beware that you'll be placed on the list if you go over 3 Mbps. Twisted Evil
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2004, 06:11:26 AM »
The average speed if you are thinking theoretically is indeed some where around 25 Mbps.

Usually the average cable user obtains some where between 2000-6000.  This depends on your plan.

The rule of thumb is to be within 90% of what you are paying for.

I would check out VanBuren's tweak topic in "Make it faster" to see if you can make it faster Smile
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2004, 04:53:53 AM »
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 4761 Kbps about 4.8 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB)
Download Speed is:: 581 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 85 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 1.76 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=KEPHKR662
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2004, 05:37:49 AM »
While that is a nice score (you're added to the list btw), it has nothing to do with this topic.
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