Comment It's a feature and it works well (Score 1) 287
I have had comcast for quite some time now. They introduced "speedboost" initially on the top tier plan but have extended it to the lower plans as well. It operates as a token bucket throttle, it may in fact be a token bucket, but I do not know how they are accomplishing it. So you start with a bucket of tokens, you are allowed to expend the tokens as fast as you can up to about 24Mbps, once the bucket is empty you are out of BW. The bucket refills at a rate equal to your plan rate.
I run similar filters in the linux firewalls I set up for clients as well as general BW throttle and fairness queuing. Anyone interested in this stuff for their home/bus network should look at the tc filters available in any linux kernel.
Anyway, people can bash comcast all they want about various crap they pull, but this particular feature works very well for normal user type connections. Very high initial burst rates allowing the first 10-20 MB to come in very fast then the throttle kicks in. Great for browsing and smallish downloads.
I run similar filters in the linux firewalls I set up for clients as well as general BW throttle and fairness queuing. Anyone interested in this stuff for their home/bus network should look at the tc filters available in any linux kernel.
Anyway, people can bash comcast all they want about various crap they pull, but this particular feature works very well for normal user type connections. Very high initial burst rates allowing the first 10-20 MB to come in very fast then the throttle kicks in. Great for browsing and smallish downloads.
