Charter to Launch Nation's Fastest Broadband Service

knowing charter (current customer) you can expect the bandwidth - but the 500ms+ ping is also included :(
 
I had Charter when I lived in Minneapolis. Only one time was it interrupted, due to a car crash but then I was in a new neighborhood. I wish Mediacom were as capable in delivery, damn the speed.
 
I have cincinnati bell fiber at 30/30 (but I really get 40/40 for some reason). When I purchased it, they claimed that they have the backbone in place to go 100/100 for all of their users (small ISP) but that they won't until there is fiber competition in the area. The tech said it will probably be 6 months, but he said that the company is already talking about rolling it out towards the end of the year.
 
The said thing is, there are tons of local small ISP's here all doing FTTH and only giving ~5Mb/s.

My 20-22Mb/s is fast enough for me. I think I'd lose my mind if I had 50-60Mb/s.
 
S[H]ady;1033663884 said:
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.
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Sounds like Shaw except they are 1mbit up for the 25mbit package.
 
Wow. It didn't take long for the ignorant "Small nation FOO with insane population density has five bazillion terrabit quantum netowork service for four pesos a month! USA sucks!" posts to start.

Before I moved to the Comcast wasteland I had 20/20 FiOS (before they upped the speeds) and the ONLY thing that could feed that pipe was bittorrent. It was total overkill for anything else. 50mbps? WTF for?

Charter is on the edge of bankruptcy. They are in debt up the ass and their stock is trading at $0.09 a share.

http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:CHTR

These guys are fucked.
 
ISP speeds don't really mean what they used to. Why do you think people like Comcast and Charter are now rolling out high speed Internet (actual high speed, not 6mbit)? It's because they have throttling and caps in place now to ensure no one can really utilize the speeds.

I can't even download a 350MB TV episode without my 22mbit Crapcast getting throttled down to 11mbits. And that's at like 2 in the morning when I know there is no congestion going on.

If you can only maintain your top speed for 2 minutes, it's pretty dishonest to advertise that as the sustainable speed of the connection.
 
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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Nobody needs to take shots at Sweden and Finland just because some troll is making stuff up. I'm not going to say anything about Sweden's broadband infrastructure, because it is impressive (that's what happens when your socialist government makes good investments).

Finland has nothing nearly comparable, however. If 100/100mbit connections are available at all, I'd be mighty shocked if it's anywhere other than a very limited area in Helsinki. I'd say most people have 10/1 or less and pay quite a bit for that.
 
Charter is the worst internet provider I have ever had. I have their 10 MBIT service and my connection is slower than my RCN 5 MBIT connection at home by a LOT. I'm sure the 60 MBIT service is actually 10 MBIT...
 
I've had Charter for many years and have no complaints at all. It rarely goes down and I've never had a problem with speed. I live a couple miles from the main office and from what I read the 60Mb service will only be available to a few surrounding areas for now. I happen to live in one of those areas but I won't be paying $130.00 a month for it. I'm fine with 5Mb service.
Yeah I'm concerned they may go bankrupt. My problem is DSL or Uverse is not available in my area so if they go out of business I may have a problem.
 
Port speed means jack shit, it's the committed rate. Yes you get 60mbit or 100mbit or whatever, but there is no way you will be able to sustain such a rate because of overselling.
 
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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Can't say I'm surprised. Got friends who have before and some the currently do work at the support center up here in Minnesota. Its not exactly a rosy picture that they paint.
 
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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Sounds like Charter in MO too. Those guys were a fucking joke as well. I had a 3M/512 plan..for like a month I was seeing less than 56k speeds during peak.
 
ianken said:
Wow. It didn't take long for the ignorant "Small nation FOO with insane population density has five bazillion terrabit quantum netowork service for four pesos a month! USA sucks!" posts to start.

Before I moved to the Comcast wasteland I had 20/20 FiOS (before they upped the speeds) and the ONLY thing that could feed that pipe was bittorrent. It was total overkill for anything else. 50mbps? WTF for?

Charter is on the edge of bankruptcy. They are in debt up the ass and their stock is trading at $0.09 a share.

http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:CHTR

These guys are fucked.
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Holy shit....$0.09....wow that's bad. But, maybe a potential good buy if it gets bought out? I don't know a damn thing about the stock market though (other than everything is shit ATM).
 
Dang!! I was happy the other day when I upgraded to charters 16Mbps service.. but this.. makes me happy! :)

Now if I can just muster up the thousand dollars a month for it...
 
I'm piss at that FiOS service. It is available everywhere in the state I live but not the major city where I live
 
computerpro3 said:
No, because FIOS isn't affected by other people's usage. I can download at 5 megabytes per second on fiber from usenet 24/7 and it simply never slows down.
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+1

I have the 50/20 service and it's faaaannnntastic. No slowdowns while leeching from Giganews at any time during the day. I max the connection without a problem. All for $95 a month.
 
bandwidth is limited by greed of the companies, if every average joe in america knew their provider could offer the speeds other countries do, there would be a lot more demands for it, however the whole "we dont own these lines, we arent responsible for upgrading our own infrastructure", they dont want to shell out the bucks to give you service, they just want you to keep paying the ever climbing rates you already pay for what you have.

i adopted cable early and there wasnt hard caps on our download speeds for about the first year, though i never downloaded huge files, (6.4gb hard drive days) i remember hitting 1200-1600kbps and still climbing by the time the files finished downloading. then they cap speed, saying to preserve bandwidth for all customers. later they roll out powerboost or some other scheme, upping our speeds 200kbps or so and offer bigger packages for $10-$20 more a month with the promise of more speed. so they feed us crap about how they improve our service, giving us something we had in the early days.

then you get to hear about how other countries can just download their favorite tv shows instead of having to watch/record them, learning how the big media companies arent ready to give us these options for fear that they could lose advertising dollars as we could skip the lousy commercials. meanwhile TiVo has been pushed to obscurity , and we have more media usage crap added to our signals, to keep us from enjoying stuff how we want, since its not in their ideal business model, and blaming it on piracy. but we finally have on demand and movie streaming, though still not to its full potential.

so the companies that give us our services keep america behind the times for fear they may lose dollars, or have to upgrade their infrastructure, which costs them money.

p.s. what happened with google's buying up of the redundant fiber optic lines already in place?
 
Oh please, they can barely deliver their 5mb service with any reliability, much less 50. I might of believed this if it came with a full network restructuring and a 20mb goal.

I had comcast for years, never had too many problems. I dislike some of their policies but they aren't terrible by any means. Brighthouse networks is hands down the best service I have had. Unfortunate circumstances forced me to move back to Ga and get stuck with charter again (Going from 20mb flawless service to 5mb if I am lucky blows). I seriously hope this finally bankrupts charter and comcast can start servicing this area. At least then i can get 12mb+ with actual reliability.
 
I just upgraded to 60/5 and I am still getting 16/2 speeds (I've been testing it all afternoon)... I also have the added benefit of NOT being able to connect to steam anymore... *thumbs up* @ charter. They did schedule a tech to come out and take a look at it tomorrow though, I guess that's nice. Also they guarantee at least 42MB down.
 
I'm in Canada so this doesn't really mean much to me.

However common sense says

Fibre > Copper

Nuff said.

K Bye!
 
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