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JasonPC,

I am in Vegas I have the Premier tier, 10,000,000 bps down and 1,000 bps up.  How can you measure your speeds with power-boost obscuring all speed testing... 

Cox speed test: http://test.lvcm.com/
Download  30,771,024 bps
  Upload  1,103,800 bp

DSL Reports:www.dslreports.com/archive?zip=89120&dnsdom=&start=Search
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testmy.net:
Download Connection is:: 22731 Kbps about 22.73 Mbps (tested with 25600
kB)
Download Speed is:: 2775 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 906 Kbps about 0.9 Mbp/s (tested with 1496 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 111 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/04/30 - 6:51am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-89E6VWACM
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-8NTEQ2IAH
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux 2.6.22-1-
mepis64-smp) KHTML/3.5.8 (like Gecko) (Debian package
4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-4mepis1) [/size]

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www.testmy.net/share2-89E6VWACM&dual=yes&q2=8NTEQ2IA

Large differences in the Internet connection speed testing...  Before speed-boost Cox testing and DSLreports were almost the same.  After speed-boost a great discrepancy started occurring between the two testing sites.  However it I use a stopwatch and do a large download via newsgroups or ftp, I am averaging about 7 Mbps. 

JR the postman

That is twice the speed being offered in this market... 
But slower than most any Euro location, as the FCC allows Americans to be sold slower speeds at twice the price... 

But with the fall of the US dollar against other currencies our pricing is getting closer to what others are paying for the faster high speed Internet service.  Most developed countries are getting an annual price reduction and increase in speeds.  Seems in the US, we are getting an occasional speed increase, and an annual price increase... 

Maybe in the near future America will get lucky and have the cable industry deregulated.  Separating the cable line company from the entertainment, Internet , and cable phone suppliers, the outrageous bundling nonsense will disappear.  Prices for entertainment & Internet service will come down with competition, and that will be a good consumer benefit of deregulation.

JR

What do you mean by that? Anyway we finally got the extra HD channels that Baton Rouge rolled out a month ago. History HD, Lifetime HD, Weather HD, Science Channel HD, and NFL Network HD (if you have the sports tier).

Ummm haha nice one. My neighborhood is fairly densely populated as are many. The speed increases are the result of network upgrades, not because there aren't a lot of people. I believe there was a statement that eventually other areas will have the same speed increase after their infrastructure is upgraded.