What Does Cox Promise For Download And Upload Time Frames

When I moved to a Boston suburb a few months ago, the first matter I did was looking for an Net provider considering I didn't want to have any suspension in our work. I also used a T-Mobile's hotspot at that time only it was too costly, especially when I watch movies or upload Youtube videos. I was interested in Verizon Fios considering I had great experience with fiber-optic connection before, unfortunately, the service is not available in my area.

Afterward some enquiry, I found out that Comcast's Xfinity is the all-time option and I decided to give it a attempt. The plans starting time from $39 per month with gratuitous self-installation kit. I opted for the Performance Pro Internet which costs $49/month for the get-go twelvemonth and it comes with the download speed of up to 200Mbps. The toll could come down to $39/calendar month when y'all opt for Paperless Bill and Automatic Payments. In that location was non a mention of the upload speed on this folio.

After starting the service, I measured the download and upload speeds and the results were quite shocking. While the download speed is good at over 200Mbps, the upload speed is terribly slow at around 5Mbps. At outset, I thought that could be some problems with my connection but unfortunately, that's the upstream bandwidth I was allocated. This might exist ok with most average consumers but nowadays, many of us are using cloud storage, nosotros back up our photos and videos to Google Photos or Apple iCloud everyday, and we upload content to social media or Youtube; That means the upload speed is unacceptable considering uploading a 500MB videos could take more than than 10 minutes. Since moving to Xfinity, I no longer upload 4K videos because it simply takes too long.

Update: Starting March 2022, Xfinity has increased the download speed past 50% and doubled upload speed for the Performance Pro plan. And so at present I get the download speed of 300Mbps and upload speed of 20Mbps.

Even when you switch to more expensive plans like Blast or Gigabit, the upload speeds are just 10Mbps and 35Mbps respectively. However, y'all volition accept to pay $59.99/month or $79.99/month. The question is when nosotros volition be upgraded to a symmetrical connection with the upload speed on par with the download speed.

At the moment, Xfinity'southward network is using the DOCSIS three.ane standard that supports ten Gbit/s downstream and ii Gbit/south upstream. Since early 2017, Comcast had plans to deploy symmetrical broadband speeds past 2019 and it requires upgrading the electric current DOCSIS 3.1 with full duplex technology so that we accomplish equal upstream and downstream throughput. DOCSIS duplex has been their focus for a few years but for some reasons, information technology however hasn't rolled out yet. Information technology is expected that the adoption will accept at least 3 more than years, that means we volition have to alive with tedious upload speed until 2024 or longer.

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