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Charter Communications says it is ready to launch its new 60Mbps service which will be the fastest broadband service in the U.S.. No price was given but it is expected to be competitive with Verizon’s 50Mbps package.

Broadband bragging rights could go to Charter Communications, which is ready to launch a 60 Mbps service. It would apparently be the fastest available to U.S. consumers. No details yet on price or when, or where, the service will appear from the cableco. 60 Mbps would top telco Verizon, which sells 50 Mbps service through its FiOS fiber-optic service.
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Hey I wouldn't turn away a 50 Mbps service regardless of how much of a faster one there is, I honestly can't see how you'd use that bandwidth up when the major bottlenecks is going to be the rest of internet land.

But that being said, groovy! Maybe we can catch up with the rest of the internet savvy world instead of living with our "NEW! 3Mbps DSL service!!!!! (with 486kbps up)
 
Haha, that's pathetic. In sweden you can buy a 100/100mbit connection for 30€= 45$ a month and here in finland you can get the same connection in some places for 45€ = 65$ / month.
Didn't know there weren't even any 100mbit connections available over there.
 
dochmbi said:
Haha, that's pathetic. In sweden you can buy a 100/100mbit connection for 30€= 45$ a month and here in finland you can get the same connection in some places for 45€ = 65$ / month.
Didn't know there weren't even any 100mbit connections available over there.
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Congrats, everyone in the US now hates you cause of your internet connection. Okay maybe not everyone... but I do. :mad:
 
dochmbi said:
Haha, that's pathetic. In sweden you can buy a 100/100mbit connection for 30€= 45$ a month and here in finland you can get the same connection in some places for 45€ = 65$ / month.
Didn't know there weren't even any 100mbit connections available over there.
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Haha Sweden is about 1:100th the size of the US. That's pathetic.

(before you nitpick, I made up the size ratio.)
 
Steve said:
Charter Communications says it is ready to launch its new 60Mbps service which will be the fastest broadband service in the U.S.. No price was given but it is expected to be competitive with Verizon’s 50Mbps package.
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50-60Mbit is pathetic compared to most countries. My friends in france have had 50Mbit down (not sure on up, but I can ask) for like $30/month for some time now.
 
dochmbi said:
Haha, that's pathetic. In sweden you can buy a 100/100mbit connection for 30€= 45$ a month and here in finland you can get the same connection in some places for 45€ = 65$ / month.
Didn't know there weren't even any 100mbit connections available over there.
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ahaha, Sweden and Finland have the highest tax rates in the world. Enjoy keeping 35% of what you earn.
 
w1retap said:
ahaha, Sweden and Finland have the highest tax rates in the world. Enjoy keeping 35% of what you earn.
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35%? My father's taxed at close to 45% income between federal and state (CT) and he's right here in the US!
 
Still Charter. Still awful. Still horrible customer service. Still the only f'ing provider available to my apartment building even in a city of 250K+. :(
 
You know, I hear that a lot about Charter, but I switched over from AT&T and I am enjoying the 16mb/2mb speed everyday. I will probably gonna to the 60mb speed when it is available in my area.
 
As a FORMER Charter Tier II Support Tech (3+ years ago) with connection with people that still work in the NOC, At least in California Charter in no way, has the inferstructure to support this kind of bandwidth.

At the time I left about 80% of all the CMTS in SoCal were nearly maxed out in bandwith, with no plans to upgrade.

They are still a joke.
 
theDreamer said:
They can keep doing this, but if they put caps or limits it will make it all worthless.
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+1. All the juicy fast home bandwidth doesn't amount to a hill of beans if the friggin' ISP's keep throttling and capping. Speed + (throttling and/or capping) != good thing.
 
matchstick said:
As a FORMER Charter Tier II Support Tech (3+ years ago) with connection with people that still work in the NOC, At least in California Charter in no way, has the inferstructure to support this kind of bandwidth.

At the time I left about 80% of all the CMTS in SoCal were nearly maxed out in bandwith, with no plans to upgrade.

They are still a joke.
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NOOOOOOO!

I seriously need an alternative to Cox, badly! Verizon isn't an option, there DSL is a joke here.
 
theDreamer said:
They can keep doing this, but if they put caps or limits it will make it all worthless.
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^^Truth! I love the ads all these companies supplying broadband have telling you to have fun downloading streaming movies, files, etc. at BLAZZING speeds. Oh yeah were gonna cap your ass if you go over X a day, oh and we are gonna charge you up the ass too!
 
You figure with all the billions of dollars this government has or is borrowing we would have first rate education, Technology and Excellent health care. I figure the title super power is only just that a title. When smaller country are surpassing us in technology, education, health care and INTERNET we not better we just 2nd or 3rd rate country.
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Nokia said:
You figure with all the billions of dollars this government has or is borrowing we would have first rate education, Technology and Excellent health care. I figure the title super power is only just that a title. When smaller country are surpassing us in technology, education, health care and INTERNET we not better we just 2nd or 3rd rate country.
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Tis indeed a sad state of affairs. However, I am pretty sure the title "Super Power " is more to the fact that we have enough destructive hardware to turn the planet into a charcoal briquette.
 
ElGuapo242 said:
Tis indeed a sad state of affairs. However, I am pretty sure the title "Super Power " is more to the fact that we have enough destructive hardware to turn the planet into a charcoal briquette.
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Some how the quote, "please don't yell at the nice man holding the gun." popped into my head.
 
w1retap said:
ahaha, Sweden and Finland have the highest tax rates in the world. Enjoy keeping 35% of what you earn.
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Beat me to it. My oh my how the grass isnt looking so much greener on the other side of the field now, huh? Fools dont realize how lucky and made you got it here in the US. Go move to Europe and see green those fields are...
 
Heh, going to be getting Fiber next week, 50/50, with a 500GB cap.

Ya, poor me, only 500GB a month? ><
 
I had fios 30g for 2 years and got a house built where only AT&T provided service. The fastest they offered then was 6mb for 35 a month. Then they put in Uverse, their version of fios, nice clean sweet fiber and the fastest they offer for that.....6mb for 45 a month.. what a fucking joke of a company. They cant even add call waiting caller ID to our phone service.:eek:
 
Charter is going to be filing for bankruptcy soon. They haven't made profit since 1999, and if you watch their stock, it was around 8 cents per share, last I checked. 8 freaking cents. I can't see something like this bailing them out, at all.
 
slickmitch said:
I had fios 30g for 2 years and got a house built where only AT&T provided service. The fastest they offered then was 6mb for 35 a month. Then they put in Uverse, their version of fios, nice clean sweet fiber and the fastest they offer for that.....6mb for 45 a month.. what a fucking joke of a company. They cant even add call waiting caller ID to our phone service.:eek:
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Use Vonage, lol.
 
Wow!
I'm surprised thats the fastest available in the states.
My ISP just silently launched a 100Mbit connection. I won't name the ISP because they have not announced it yet (wen't live yesterday), but suffice to say its a major canadian ISP.
no one will likely be getting it though.
100Mbit down.
5Mbit up (internally tested at 100mbit up, but they refuse to give the customer any higher than 5)
200GB/Month bandwidth.

Now all that seams "ok", especially considering the fastsest availble before that (at least in my city) was 25Mbit for a residential connection. But when you hear the price it gets a bit out of hand.
$250/month if you have tv
$270/month standalone

the 25Mbit connection only has 2Mbit up, and it costs $100/month.


Why are internet connections over seas so damn cheap!??! I would pay 100 bucks a month for a 100up/100down connection without batting an eye.
hell i'd probably pay 100 bucks a month to match my current 10 down with 10 up.
 
My experience with Charter is you'll get the 50mbps down, at 1-7am, and then less then 10% of that during peak hours usage.
 
All this download is worth crap if they don't start providing decent upload speeds as well.
 
AVT said:
Or save $100/year and get the exact same thing from Packet8.
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I'm sure there's a hundred companies out there that provide VoIP at cheap rates as well. I just named one people knew of. ;)
 
matchstick said:
As a FORMER Charter Tier II Support Tech (3+ years ago) with connection with people that still work in the NOC, At least in California Charter in no way, has the inferstructure to support this kind of bandwidth.

At the time I left about 80% of all the CMTS in SoCal were nearly maxed out in bandwith, with no plans to upgrade.

They are still a joke.
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So glad to be charter free for close to 1 year after being a customer for 5 years. Prior to leaving it was the "norm" to have a ping >100ms during the day, >250ms prior to peak, and >500ms<900ms during peak. I was on the 10mb/1mb plan and I would barely clear 350K during peak times and the latency would just about kill any type of application. The turn of the knife it was the only option available and I was paying $75 a month just for broadband for that POS.

Everyone in the South of Silicon Valley(Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister) were all experiencing it and it made it to the papers after 9 months. No compensation, it got better a little better shorlty after all the press, but it slowly started rising back up again. It was norm to have this problem 2 months out of every year, but every day for over a month was just aweful.

I would say outside of the births of my son, calling charter to cancel my service was probably up there in my list of happiest moments;)
 
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