We interrupt this regularly scheduled series of blog posts about travel tech with some breaking news. Noting that internet felt very crisp, I ran a speedtest the other day with the following results:
Comcast trying hard (and succeeding) to keep the author happy
Now, I was reading about LTE coming with it’s rumored 100Mbps speeds, and in some dialog over the last week with colleagues we were discussing that the cable operators are trying to ramp up bandwidth proactively, so that they’ll have less disruption once the wireless stuff really gets going.
I guess this is evidence, my last test in December showed 15 down and 1.5 up. And it shows that competition or threats of competition do force innovation and improved service levels. For now, I’m planning to happily enjoy my .024 Gps down and .008 up. It’s a move in the right direction, thank you Comcast!
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