About Bosty

I use Ethernet cat 7 cable to connect. I don't use wifi except for the house.. My network adaptor says 1 Gbps speed. Under the duplex option, I have 10 Mbps Half; Duplex; 10 Mbps Full; Duplex; 100 Mbps Half; Duplex; 100 Mbps Full; Duplex and Auto Negotiate. Should there be a 1000 Mbps Full Duplex option? ... View more

OK, that makes sense. Thanks for the clear explanation.. Any ideas since I exceed the requirements for PC specs and use cat 7 cable directly connected to modem? Is it just hit or miss with their service? ... View more

@Wolverine062 wrote: I don't know if you weren't paying attention or not but that black box, plugs directly into the gateway, it's not wireless. I was and he connected to the box with his phone and used a WiFi signal. The box plugged into the gateway via Ethernet cable. Unless the iphone has a mysterious way to connect directly to the black box, it used a WiFi signal. He did not use a computer at all. ... View more

Not sure how he proved it. He could not get a wifi signal of 940 Mb/s through the gateway, only a wifi signal of 940 Mb/s through his "little black box". Either the gateway is bad, in which case how did he get the high speed or his black box gives fake readings and is probably a signal booster. There is no way he can get the speed through his box but can't get the speed directly since they both used wifi signal. The only variable is the black box. ... View more

So I tried the above suggestions and no improvement. I had a tech out today and he hooked up a little black box to the gateway and ran a speedtest over wifi and he got 940 Mb/s. So I told him to remove the black box and test again over the gateway wifi and, surprise, the speed was back to 350 Mb/s. Told him there is no reason why the speed should be different and that the little black box inflates the numbers. He proceeded to tell me that there is no reason any residential customer needs 1 GB speed anyway unless you are running a big business. Getting tired of techs who are really quite incompetent in their job. So I guess that Comcast expects us to pay for 1 GB tier but has no way to actually get us that speed. Anyone else have any ideas since Comcast is pretty clueless? ... View more

Wired into the gateway.  I've already done a hard reset. ... View more