A little bit extra
August 5, 2009 – 10:14 am
As mentioned in this system status message, we have re-profiled all Fusion Broadband customers to deliver a higher maximum sync speed. We have added 10% on top of the advertised maximum speed of all of our Fusion speed tiers.
The idea is to over deliver a little bit extra to Fusion customers who are obtaining the maximum speed in their selected tier. So, a customer who buys “up to 6Mbps” Fusion now is actually set to a profile of 6592kbps in the DSLAM, and an “up to 18Mbps” customer is set 19776kbps.
Maybe racing stripes really do make things go faster!
16 Responses to “A little bit extra”
Yay, thanks so much. After being initially disappointed with my Fusion speed (as I had given up my fixed IPs too), I am now extremely happy. Many thanks for the upgrade.
By MikeN on Aug 5, 2009
Wow, what other ISP would do this?? Thanks folks.
By dfine on Aug 5, 2009
This is great. I’d love to know what it would take to get faster upload speeds.
By Jim Goodenough on Aug 5, 2009
Jim,
Currently, our Fusion product is generally configured as ADSL2+ Annex A. The Annex configuration determines things like down & upstream profiles, that is, where downstream and upstream are split.
In the near future we will begin supporting ADSL2+ Annex M, which is basically a settings toggle that moves the split between downstream and upstream, allowing for about double the upstream speed, but at some cost in the total downstream potential.
I expect that you’re likely to see us offering Annex M support in a couple months.
The other performance boost that will be available shortly is pair bonding. More on that in the next few days.
-Dane
By Dane Jasper on Aug 5, 2009
It is great to see Sonic.net continuously providing better service options!
By Devin Baskin on Aug 5, 2009
10/2 would be great!
By Devin Baskin on Aug 5, 2009
Thanks for the extra bandwidth!
I wish there was a way to upgrade the upstream. Having the upstream locked at 1Mbps for all 3 tiers of adsl2 isn’t flexible. With the increase of digital recorders comes increased need for pushing data into the cloud.
By Toonsy on Aug 6, 2009
Devin and Toonsy,
Upstream upgrades are in the works – you’ll see 2Mbps and 4Mbps upstream offerings shortly. Get online now, there’s no need to wait!
-Dane
By Dane Jasper on Aug 6, 2009
Cool. Let me know when and then sign me up!
By Toonsy on Aug 6, 2009
Any idea on when Fusion will be making it to San Ramon (SNRMCA11)? I have been enjoying the Sonic DSL service for a number of years, but would love the bandwidth available from Fusion.
By San Ramonian on Aug 26, 2009
Raja,
San Ramon is not on the near term coverage schedule, sorry. Check back in 12 to 18 months.
By Dane Jasper on Aug 27, 2009
Is “the near term coverage schedule” posted in a publicly available location? I’d be interested in knowing how long before we can expect Fusion/ADSL2 service in Fremont
By phuzzie on Nov 15, 2009
Phuzzie,
We’re under construction in a large number of places at this time, but we’re not providing a details deployment schedule right now. Note the new blog entries I’ve put up about additional markets as they’ve come fully online, we’ll likely continue that.
-Dane
By Dane Jasper on Nov 15, 2009
Now that you are regularly bonding pairs for higher speed, I don’t understand why you can’t bond a forward-DSL (e.g. 6M/1M) with a backward-DSL (1M/6M)
to provide 7M/7M (or even 6M/6M!) service?
The DSL protocols push X bits over the wire, asymmetrically, but there’s nothing about that wire that makes one end faster than the other. You can push the larger number of bits toward the CO, rather than away from the CO, using the same chips.
By John Gilmore on Nov 18, 2009
If we were to site a DSLAM at a customer premise instead of in the CO, that might be possible. But that’s an expensive box!
EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) is a symmetric technology that we do offer to business users under our FlexLink product set. We offer speeds of up to 30Mbps symmetric over eight pairs.
-Dane
By Dane Jasper on Nov 19, 2009