Comcast upgrade in Seattle area??

[carage]

I lost my connection about 2AM (Wednesday morning), the outage probably lasted until 2PM, but at the same time the cable TV was still working. I called Comcast and got this automated response about some sort of upgrade in the area. After I got my connection back at 2PM, I still didn't see any sort of performance gains in terms of connection speeds or pings.
Does anyone know what Comcast was actually upgrading?

[carage]

Results from DSLreport
2003-05-30 04:59:30 EST: 1868 / 138
Your download speed : 1868261 bps, or 1868 kbps.
A 228 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 138913 bps, or 138 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!


The download seems to satisfy the ISP's claim, but the upload?
138 kbps? Shouldn't it be closer to 256 kbps?
Is something wrong here?
Thanks.