Ok, I'm going to try and give you as much information as possible to my frustrating problem.
I'm trying to game online. Last 3 days have been absolutely horrible doing so.
I live in Chicago and have comcast. My plan is 15 mps. During peak hours I get around 12, and otherwise I see speeds up to 25 with their hyper boost or whatever it's called
Using speedtest.net over the last few days I've seen download speeds ranging from 0.50 to 25 mps half a minute apart.
I don't get it, calling comcast they want to send a tech out or try to get me to buy a new modem. I have a modem/router combo, I think is linksys, if you need the model I can get that. I've had it less than a year, I can't imagine there's a problem with it.
Resetting the modem doesn't help either. The speed still fluctuates like I said already.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated...

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