Started my 10,000 song upload to Google Music Beta

[pinkoos]

But would they be throttling the download speeds as well right now or is the web browsing experience a result of the "pipe" being clogged up, as Trouble put it?

[Racer X]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=pinkoos]
Also, I wonder if they are throttling, if they will restore normal speeds once my upload is done or if I'm stuck with this speed until the next billing cycle.

Comcast absolutely throttles your upload speeds. When I upload a large amount of data, the first 5 or 6 megabytes is pretty fast, but it then slows down to around 150-160 kb/sec for the duration of the file transfer. I used to have an account with Surewest that was fiber optic to the home. My upload speeds with them were faster than Comcast's download speed. You could have actually backed up your entire hard drive to the cloud if you wanted to. It was mind boggling fast.
"When I upload a large amount of data, the first 5 or 6 megabytes is pretty fast" That's their "speedboost" crap. If you go to speed testing sites, they test fast. But if the site uses a huge upload "file" size, the results are a lot slower, because Comcast slows down after the first 5 or 6 megs of an upload.

[pinkoos]

Interesting. I always wondered what "speed boost" meant.

[Trouble]

pinkoos wrote:
Interesting. I always wondered what "speed boost" meant.

Yeah, I wouldn't call it crap. It is useful. Think of it this way. You could buy a car that you can drive at 100 mph for $50,000. Or you can buy a car for $20,000 that let's you drive at 100 mph for 5 minutes and then 60 mph for the rest of the journey. If most of your trips were under 5 minutes then you would never see a difference between the two cars. That is the "speedboost" feature. It is mainly used for web browsing and viewing youtube and such videos online. Since most web browsing traffic is in short bursts, comcast can provide very high speed bandwidth. If someone is watching a long movie or making a long transfer, they cut the speed back. I wouldn't consider that "throttling" in the way you are asking. It is a great feature.

[freeradical]

I think that some ISP's try to throttle downloads for certain applications such as BitTorrent clients, usenet readers, etc based on the fact that they use well known ports. Some applications give you the ability to change the port to something that is not well known in order to hopefully prevent the ISP from doing this.

[pinkoos]

Well, it just finished now. About 3 PM on Saturday...9,758 songs. Now I'll check to see if my browsing speeds are back up to snuff.

So, I started June 15 around 9PM or so and it finished on June 18 around 3PM or so. About 2 and 3/4 days for almost 10,000 songs.

EDIT: Comcast shows I've now used 82GB of my 250GB allotment.