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    Does anyone here know which one of the technologies they are using in the Hopewell, Hanover area. Or how can I check for myself?

    I have their "Mega Extreme" package that is only for Hanover, Westmoreland, Trelawny, St. Elizabeth, St. Mary, Portland & St. Thomas that is advertised as 8 Mbps. However, when I test it I get ~18 Mbps and I recall the installation tech saying it was a new system, I don't remember the exact description he used though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gW33Zy View Post
    Does anyone here know which one of the technologies they are using in the Hopewell, Hanover area. Or how can I check for myself?

    I have their "Mega Extreme" package that is only for Hanover, Westmoreland, Trelawny, St. Elizabeth, St. Mary, Portland & St. Thomas that is advertised as 8 Mbps. However, when I test it I get ~18 Mbps and I recall the installation tech saying it was a new system, I don't remember the exact description he used though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gW33Zy View Post
    Does anyone here know which one of the technologies they are using in the Hopewell, Hanover area. Or how can I check for myself?

    I have their "Mega Extreme" package that is only for Hanover, Westmoreland, Trelawny, St. Elizabeth, St. Mary, Portland & St. Thomas that is advertised as 8 Mbps. However, when I test it I get ~18 Mbps and I recall the installation tech saying it was a new system, I don't remember the exact description he used though.
    Either ADSL2+ or VDSL2; I'd guess ADSL2+ but it could also be VDSL2 depending on how far you are from the MSAN.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandysull View Post
    Either ADSL2+ or VDSL2; I'd guess ADSL2+ but it could also be VDSL2 depending on how far you are from the MSAN.
    https://dealna.com/en/Article/Post/4404/DSLAM-and-MSAN

    https://www.facebook.com/NS.net/posts/944921195520717:0

    There you go. Brandysull has been in it too long and doesn't know how to simplify. Not sure if it's a blessing or a curse - but I do understand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by khat17 View Post
    https://dealna.com/en/Article/Post/4404/DSLAM-and-MSAN

    https://www.facebook.com/NS.net/posts/944921195520717:0

    There you go. Brandysull has been in it too long and doesn't know how to simplify. Not sure if it's a blessing or a curse - but I do understand.
    Thanks, Khat17! The gift of brevity & simplicity was never my forte, unfortunately. I do mean well though!

    I do want to re-pivot to the HFC to GPON debate. I'm curious as to whether FLOW has overbuild with HFC & GPON in most areas, not that it matters, but GPON coupled with souped-up speeds over D3 can really help ease the discomfort most of their customers face (thankfully, I not one of the unfortunate many but the point remains). I suppose FLOW will need to expand its spectrum range (on existing RF plant) up to 1.2 GHz as well; the benefit of which will not be seen until the TG3492 is widely available for use here.

    Until then...

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    Have you all been noticing some changes on heartening changes on FLOW's cable broadband? My package is 60/5 but, with bursty traffic like YouTube, I'm peaking at 115 Mbit/s in downloads. For uploads, much the same exists where I've seen bursts of up to 30 Mbit/s.

    Perhaps it could be related to my area but the extra capacity has really helped make the content consumption experience much better. We do, however, need packages with more modern, fit-for-purpose packages starting at 75 or 100 Mbit/s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandysull View Post
    Have you all been noticing some changes on heartening changes on FLOW's cable broadband? My package is 60/5 but, with bursty traffic like YouTube, I'm peaking at 115 Mbit/s in downloads. For uploads, much the same exists where I've seen bursts of up to 30 Mbit/s.

    Perhaps it could be related to my area but the extra capacity has really helped make the content consumption experience much better. We do, however, need packages with more modern, fit-for-purpose packages starting at 75 or 100 Mbit/s.
    Nope - but I am seeing the usual 6%-15% packet loss. Speeds have not improved here. The download speeds can stay - I want stability and better uploads. With the amount of things being cloud - storage / streaming / gaming - and the need to do online backups, one would think they'd do this by now.

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    https://www.speedtest.net/result/9591763386

    https://share.pingplotter.com/bNZDqpDGUrY
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandysull View Post
    Have you all been noticing some changes on heartening changes on FLOW's cable broadband? My package is 60/5 but, with bursty traffic like YouTube, I'm peaking at 115 Mbit/s in downloads. For uploads, much the same exists where I've seen bursts of up to 30 Mbit/s.

    Perhaps it could be related to my area but the extra capacity has really helped make the content consumption experience much better. We do, however, need packages with more modern, fit-for-purpose packages starting at 75 or 100 Mbit/s.
    No I am not seeing anything like that. Probably just a fluke esp if your seeing that on the uploads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BNOVA View Post
    No I am not seeing anything like that. Probably just a fluke esp if your seeing that on the uploads.
    Not necessarily. If they're doing upgrades and the area isn't saturated then you will see bursts like that. They have no QoS on their network it seems - or if they do it's very lax. This is why heavily saturated areas will have customers suffering while others suck the bandwidth with torrents and streaming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by khat17 View Post
    Nope - but I am seeing the usual 6%-15% packet loss. Speeds have not improved here. The download speeds can stay - I want stability and better uploads. With the amount of things being cloud - storage / streaming / gaming - and the need to do online backups, one would think they'd do this by now.

    By the rivers of Babylon...

    https://www.speedtest.net/result/9591763386

    https://share.pingplotter.com/bNZDqpDGUrY
    Yikes! Are you in the Kingston Metro Area? For clarity, I'm in an area surrounding Montego Bay; they did some headend upgrades in April (according to an email they sent). I am also <500m from a fibre node, with an amplifier just 5 houses down, in a sleepy neighborhood (with fibre overbuild from the looks of it). Most get cable from a regional player in Western Jamaica & internet from good old LIME ADSL (which goes up to 8 Mbit/s) despite "Flow" & FLOW being available here for well over a decade.

    On the point of traffic shaping/QoS, other players like Comcast are surprisingly hands-off in that regard. FLOW's issue really seems to be a reluctance in overprovisioning for usage growth, which is why any period of usage uplift will hit the network hard. They cost cut A LOT and end up paying doubly for it in the end; cost to brand value, resolution and new solution buildout.

    The network desperately needs some beefing up & traffic controls in those high density rollouts (like in the KMA).

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