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Originally Posted by Carla B
During the past few days our Comcast Internet download speed has ranged from 1.17 to 4.23. We don't pay for the basic speed, we have "performance" which we were told was 25mbps and which has worked for the past year. Now we can't use Roku at all. Comcast shows our devices are all connected.
Has anyone else noticed a slowdown?
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Tuesday night at 10 PM (high usage time) and I just got downloads of 24 on the Xfinity speed test and 23 on Speakeasy; uploads of 6 on both. I'm in Mallory and I have only the 'basic' Comcast broadband subscription.
No complaints here.
By the way, I'm on the other side of the house from my Comcast modem, connected with a BPL (broadband over power line) in house network. After unsuccessfully screwing around with wi-fi routers, repeaters and all sorts of wireless hardware, I finally discovered BPL at the recommendation of a techie at Staples, of all places. With the purchase of two simple plug-in units for about a hundred bucks, I now get exactly the same speed here in my den, on the other side of the house, as I do right at the modem where the Comcast cable comes into the house. I also have an Apple Airport Express modem plugged into the BPL here under my desk, so I get that same speed wirelessly on the other side of the room where I'm sitting, powering our Roku without a glitch.