If you have Eastlink internet, and live in HRM you should have gotten a free speed upgrade today. High Speed Edge was 20/2, now 50/5 (as long as you have wifi, otherwise it's still 20/2). If you don't have wifi, it's only $2.95/month to add it and get 2.5x the upload/download speeds. High Speed Evolution is now 100/10 High Speed Eclipse is now, 150/10 High Speed Ultimate is now 400/10 http://speedtest-east.eastlink.ca/ to check your speeds. If you're not getting the new speeds, just unplug your modem for a few seconds, plug it back in and you should be set.
I was just speaking to Eastlink CSR about that.. shitty that its only in select areas of NS for now.. I told her we shouldnt be seeing the ads here on PEI.. lol
Verified, I have my 50/5. Interesting that I find out from someone that.. doesn't work for the company, lol. But then again they've been adding more downstreams/upstreams and aggressively node splitting for this for quite some time.
The Eastlink system in Musquodoboit Harbour (and beyond) sucks compared to pretty much everywhere else in HRM.
Yeah, those 600 nodes are ass. That said... I don't have 50 down, I only have half that. I'll take a peek at the the CMTS and node I'm on when I'm in the office next to see if I can see what's up, unless it's resolved by then.
I'm assuming you've already tried power cycling the modem? That fixed it for me, and a few other people.
Did that when I saw this thread yesterday. I have the 5 up, so I know it was changed. Not sure if there is congestion in my node or if there is some legitimate issue. I don't care enough to complain about it right now, I'm off til Saturday anyway.
I don't foresee them bumping the upstreams anytime soon. As it is they just bumped the downstream up to what FibreOp was before they just recently bumped theirs up more.
We'll have to see what is in the works... upstream is the achilles heel of CATV plant. They may have more success with that with the continued rollout of gear capable of DOCSIS 3.1.
ahhh, apparently they are load testing their network from June 4-24 so some people were ramped up temporarily.
Actually this isn't entirely true. These speed bumps are permanent. They are testing for some other possible changes though
That's not the attitude to have. That's like the cable company offering you more channels for the same cost and you say "No thanks, I already have enough channels"
I mean, I'm jealous, but at the same time there would never be any way I could consume that sort of downstream bandwidth.
I make a living on my computer so I'll take all the bandwidth they'll give. Upstream boost is long overdue though
Yeah.. upstream is the Achilles Heel of a cable network. Only so much time can be bought before moving on to another method of service delivery.
As I've said before I'd rather the cost go down and the service remain the same instead of service going up and cost remaining the same.
You say that now but this infrastructure growth opens up a whole bunch of new opportunities. Future products that we may end using everyday might only start being developed because residential internet speeds are increasing.
