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My Bandwidth Results

I wrote in a previous post about having to track my bandwidth usage since Comcast was implementing bandwidth limits. Well, my results for September are in. According to my Tomato router I used 195.11 GB total bandwidth. 57.51 GB was used for downloading content and 137.60 GB was for uploading.

What does this [...]

Figuring Things Out with Tomato

Comcast made a lovely announcement last week that they were imposing bandwidth caps for their users. The limit is 250 GB a month. I have no idea how much bandwidth I use. Funny thing is Comcast is not giving users a way to determine how much bandwidth they actually use!
Comcast suggests using one [...]

Installed – Finally

The installer for Comcast, Jose, finally arrived at 6:10pm. The installed took over an hour, as Jose needed to drill a hole and do the cabling under the house. He then configured the router, which I noticed the setup is a little different than doing DSL.
The first speed test Jose did got [...]

Still No Show

5:40pm. Still no installer.  I’m on the phone with Alan from Comcast.  Hmmm, is this worth it?

Not a Good Sign

My install time for cable Internet: between 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Current time: 5:13pm. A not so quick call to Comcast, and they tell me the installer will be here by 5:30pm. They’ve given me a $20 credit for my troubles.
We shall see what happens at 5:30pm.