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comcast sends me reminders that i'm not taking advantage of my plan's speed. I signed up for gigabit a few years ago to get the 40mpbs upload. previous plan was lower but more than sufficient but it was annoying with 10mpbs (or was it 5 mpbs) upload. i had to buy a new cable modem to upgrade the docsis 3.0 that i had for many years once i went to gigabit. docsis 3.1 modem was required to get above the 400-500 limit of my docsis 3.0 modem.
so my current plan is 1200/200 mpbs (increased from my previous gigabit plan of 1gb / 40 mpbs). an additional 200mpbs probably won't be realized, realistically speaking. there are not that many devices and concurrent use (thinking bandwidth capacity), and we don't pay for 4k streaming.
but here's the thing - to go over the 1gb mpbs for speed, i'll need a docsis 4.0 which is not yet mainstream. so why am i getting notifications i need to upgrade my modem when docsis 3.1 is the current and mainstream version up to 1gb mpbs?
if increasing bandwidth is the point due to concurrent usage, ok i get that. but it's worded / marketed as "speed" and not as "capacity" though one can interchange this with what they're talking about. i'm considering it as "speed".
also and if i do have a 200mpbs upload plan, i'm not seeing it as i do tests via xfinity speed test (and speedtest.net) occasionally. i'm not seeing it at all and it doesn't seem to be a docsis 3.1 limitation.even if it says "up to" i should/cloud be getting more than 40 with a 200mpbs plan, rigth? i don't get quite 1gb but i get to about 920-960'ish at night when only i am active in the network. this they give disclaiming like you don't get all of that 2tb disk space you just bought realistically speaking. i do my speed testing hardwired on ethernet cat 5e cable and routing is from desktop pc (has 1gb ethernet and 2.5gb ethernet ports, but i only use the 1gb) -> router -> cable modem.
so my current plan is 1200/200 mpbs (increased from my previous gigabit plan of 1gb / 40 mpbs). an additional 200mpbs probably won't be realized, realistically speaking. there are not that many devices and concurrent use (thinking bandwidth capacity), and we don't pay for 4k streaming.
but here's the thing - to go over the 1gb mpbs for speed, i'll need a docsis 4.0 which is not yet mainstream. so why am i getting notifications i need to upgrade my modem when docsis 3.1 is the current and mainstream version up to 1gb mpbs?
if increasing bandwidth is the point due to concurrent usage, ok i get that. but it's worded / marketed as "speed" and not as "capacity" though one can interchange this with what they're talking about. i'm considering it as "speed".
also and if i do have a 200mpbs upload plan, i'm not seeing it as i do tests via xfinity speed test (and speedtest.net) occasionally. i'm not seeing it at all and it doesn't seem to be a docsis 3.1 limitation.even if it says "up to" i should/cloud be getting more than 40 with a 200mpbs plan, rigth? i don't get quite 1gb but i get to about 920-960'ish at night when only i am active in the network. this they give disclaiming like you don't get all of that 2tb disk space you just bought realistically speaking. i do my speed testing hardwired on ethernet cat 5e cable and routing is from desktop pc (has 1gb ethernet and 2.5gb ethernet ports, but i only use the 1gb) -> router -> cable modem.
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