GNG News Guy
03-04-2008, 06:50 PM
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Comcast's "Powerboost (http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ/FaqCategory.ashx?CatId=377)" technology gives cable broadband users an extra boost of bandwidth for the first part of a large download, effectively doubling the speed of connections for a limited time. When first deployed, a glitch resulted in users effectively getting this speed all of the time, a phenomenon our users called "Permaboost (http://www.thegng.org/forum/remark,17491785?)."
While Comcast corrected the pleasant glitch, they've subsequently licensed Powerboost to other cable providers like Cox -- where users saw the same PermaBoost phenomenon (http://www.thegng.org/forum/remark,18315891) for a while. Canadian cable provider Shaw has also licensed the technology and -- you guessed it -- users are reporting speeds that technically shouldn't exist (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19775360-PowerBoost-Not-Turning-Off):So ever since PowerBoost was enabled I've been getting extremely fast speeds for what I'm paying for. I currently have Shaw Extreme-I and with SpeedBoost I can get download speeds of around 3MB/s which is pretty cool. Just here is the thing...I can download for hours at that speed. It's pretty awesome. Anyone else noticing this?
I live in Saskatoon. I didn't do anything, it just is locked at around 30mbit, which is pretty funny. Of course not everything I download is that fast, since alot of servers cant even send it that fast, but for those who can it is pretty cool. Im betting this wont last long.
Providers usually notice the unintended bandwidth bonanza and crack down within a few months.
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Comcast's "Powerboost (http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ/FaqCategory.ashx?CatId=377)" technology gives cable broadband users an extra boost of bandwidth for the first part of a large download, effectively doubling the speed of connections for a limited time. When first deployed, a glitch resulted in users effectively getting this speed all of the time, a phenomenon our users called "Permaboost (http://www.thegng.org/forum/remark,17491785?)."
While Comcast corrected the pleasant glitch, they've subsequently licensed Powerboost to other cable providers like Cox -- where users saw the same PermaBoost phenomenon (http://www.thegng.org/forum/remark,18315891) for a while. Canadian cable provider Shaw has also licensed the technology and -- you guessed it -- users are reporting speeds that technically shouldn't exist (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19775360-PowerBoost-Not-Turning-Off):So ever since PowerBoost was enabled I've been getting extremely fast speeds for what I'm paying for. I currently have Shaw Extreme-I and with SpeedBoost I can get download speeds of around 3MB/s which is pretty cool. Just here is the thing...I can download for hours at that speed. It's pretty awesome. Anyone else noticing this?
I live in Saskatoon. I didn't do anything, it just is locked at around 30mbit, which is pretty funny. Of course not everything I download is that fast, since alot of servers cant even send it that fast, but for those who can it is pretty cool. Im betting this wont last long.
Providers usually notice the unintended bandwidth bonanza and crack down within a few months.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Shaw-Users-Seeing-PermaBoost-92364)