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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandysull View Post
    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).
    Khat is in Mandeville and has been having issues for some time. I suspect the plant in his section of Mandeville is bad plus under provisioned.
    Mobay was in bad need of an upgrade and was amplified due to Covid so I am Glad that they managed the upgrade in April.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BNOVA View Post
    Khat is in Mandeville and has been having issues for some time. I suspect the plant in his section of Mandeville is bad plus under provisioned.
    Mobay was in bad need of an upgrade and was amplified due to Covid so I am Glad that they managed the upgrade in April.
    https://share.pingplotter.com/bNZDqpDGUrY
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    I've had speeds drop as low as 2.94Mb down and 4.27Mb up. And I can't hear anything about the upgrade from HFC to GPON regardless of which person I speak to. Customer service says talk to the store. The store says they are not rolling out GPON at this time. And technicians I know say it should be available in my area since other communities close by actually have it available. So....yeah.
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    Quick Update: FLOW's launched 4 new bundles under the brand "DO IT"



    I decided to take the plunge and move from the Flame bundle (60 Down/5 up) to the Do It More bundle, which tops out at 100 Mbit/s on the download & curious vacillations between 5 to 10 Mbit/s.

    Here's are some screenshots.





    Both tests happened on 802.11ac (Wave 1) devices. Peak speeds were observed hitting past 120+ Mbit/s. For the upload, I'm seeing peaks up to 35 Mbit/s; very heartening! Let's see what comes in the run down till Christmas!

    For added clarity, I'm located within the boundaries of the city of Montego Bay.

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    So 100 down and 10 up. Not bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by psilos View Post
    So 100 down and 10 up. Not bad
    It looks to be that. They're still hard-throttling customers to 5 but 10 to 15 seems to be where they want to land next, on the higher packages at least. Now the Mercury I modem (white box) is beginning to flex its muscles!

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    I have been on the Blaze bundle for nearly a year now. I guess they renamed it to Do IT ALL? I test my speed now and again to check that I get what I'm paying for. Nothing has changed

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    Quote Originally Posted by leoandru View Post
    I have been on the Blaze bundle for nearly a year now. I guess they renamed it to Do IT ALL? I test my speed now and again to check that I get what I'm paying for. Nothing has changed

    https://i.imgur.com/2HYfdiC.png
    I'd say to stay tuned. Based on what I'm hearing, there's a lot of work happening to move above the 150 Mbit/s mark, as they move to full IPTV on their new TV Product (compliments of Liberty Latin America's new Arris set-top box). It just launched in Panama, which has speeds starting out at 150 Mbit/s up to 1 Gbit/s. Given that the Panamanian market & Jamaican market are equally weighted (from what I see), I see linearity coming soon in that regard.

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    That's one good thing which came out of COVID. The problem now - it still takes a number of days to upload 50GB. And that's little to nothing if you do video editing.
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    Did anyone listen to the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister? Maybe I should start a new thread for this if I can find details anywhere.
    They claim they will build an all-island fiber network owned and managed by the government through which ISPs will deliver service. I'm always skeptical of anything government managed; however, if it's anything like this:


    I'm all for it.

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    OK I added the video link to government speech. Maybe I didn't hear ~fiber~. But they did say broadband network
    https://youtu.be/eamLd7ShyCw?t=4186
    Last edited by leoandru; Sep 7, 2020 at 04:57 PM.

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