Comcast Also Lies (Score 1)

Not to be a troll or anything but my experience with Comcast cable broadband has been eye opening as far as their business practices. If you order their straight-up normal 6Mb/768k connection it's $42.95 after whatever special they're running is over. After 4 weeks of daily testing of that connection not ONCE did the upstream speed surpass 384k. (And other /.'rs are right, their "powerboost" thingamahoober skews the downstream tests to the point of utter uselessness.) Using the Speakeasy test, the upstream "needle" would hit 384k and simply hover there. When I called and complained (multiple times, after being transferred around, hung up on, etc) I eventually hit a salesperson who, in essence, informed me that that is the best I could get without upgrading to their more expensive $59.99/mo package.
*Boop* *Beep*
...Aaaand lo and behold the upstream hits 768k with no effort at all. I now pay the greater rate and have for a while now and while I'm satisfied with the speeds and don't care all that much about the price, their bait-and-switch tactics are disgusting. So, anyone pulled into this thread who has Comcast cable broadband and is curious about their upstream speeds, I'd give em a call and raise hell. There *is* something they can do. While saturation may play a part in what you're seeing, there is plenty they can do as well.