Comcast Plans Faster Net Speeds

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Just a week after saying the company would quit hampering P2P traffic, Comcast has announced it will begin offering 50Mbps/5Mbps service in Minnesota starting tomorrow with a complete roll out by 2010. I’m not sure I want uber-high speed internet service from a company that complains about P2P traffic. I mean, if file sharing was hitting them as hard as they claimed, how can they handle the increased network congestion brought on by these super fast connections?

Until the new traffic-management system is fully tested and deployed, expected by year's end, Douglas said the faster Comcast service would still be subject to hampering. "Just because we increase all the roads in Philadelphia to eight-lane highways doesn't mean we can take out all the traffic lights," Douglas said. "It's going to take a little bit of time to get this new system in place."
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Arg, why not here! I'm stuck with their 6 Mbps speed (actually it's like 3 with PowerBoost, peice of crap).
 
Only $150 a month? What a deal. So they're increasing the bandwidth for people who pay more. Which I take to mean that they are going to be explicitly capping the bandwidth of people with the regular accounts. Soon instead of just throttling your BitTorrent downloads, they'll happily let you exceed your bandwidth cap and then charge you $150 for it. GG Comcast.

I can't wait till Verizon FiOS comes to my area.
 
Steve said:
I mean, if file sharing was hitting them as hard as they claimed, how can they handle the increased network congestion brought on by this super fast connections?
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Yeah... ummmm... something smells like shi... errr... Comcast. :rolleyes:
 
I was excited about the new speed in the area, but then upon clicking the link I was greeted with a $150 fee.


As far as their tier system, it's pretty iffy. The article says that their highest tier is $63 a month, for 30MBps service. I pay $63 a month currently, for an 8MBps service that's the highest in the Twin Cities area right now. Hopefully they'll either adjust the service according to the new "Ultra" tier, or adjust the price ?

One can hope.
 
Heh... Yea... I get 20mb down and 1.5up on their speedtests, but more like 6mb down and .3 up on torrents.

Next place I'm living I'm hoping for FIOS... 15down+up :D
 
I've been a member of Comcast for several years and they are actually very good in my area. No downtime, very friendly customer service, and my torrents work great. :) Still, I'd love to have FiOS.
 
Comcast has worked okay in the past. I've had technicians out a few times to troubleshoot modem issues.

However, their 8mbps tier is CRAP. it only works a quarter of the time downloading things from highspeed servers. Very intermittent.
 
Comcast is like heaven compared to Pur Digital. And my campus internet (Georgia Tech) makes FIOS look like dial up.
 
The 50 meg would be nice - they should have been testing it with the employees for a few months now, but will still be buggy I bet.

I personally really cant complain too much about the 150 price tag, I mean 6 meg at 45$ currently - so 150 for 50 meg? Besides - no FOiS here! :(

it's not a bad deal as long as it's ACTUALLY 50 Megs!

Axe
 
So are they going to be using 4 channel DOCSIS 3.0 to get those speeds? And can existing modems be easily upgraded as needed or not?
 
Steve said:
I mean, if file sharing was hitting them as hard as they claimed, how can they handle the increased network congestion brought on by this super fast connections?
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Steve, come on man, let's read the article! In the article they say that it will be using an additional 3 analog channels on top of the 1 currently being used. It also says that users will require a new modem to get the "wideband" connection.

IMO, FiOS > "wideband."
 
BombermanX said:
Steve, come on man, let's read the article! In the article they say that it will be using an additional 3 analog channels on top of the 1 currently being used. It also says that users will require a new modem to get the "wideband" connection.

IMO, FiOS > "wideband."
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Ahh, irony, I read a different version of the article on Google News and figured they were the same, but this one is lacking information.
 
jynxycat said:
I was excited about the new speed in the area, but then upon clicking the link I was greeted with a $150 fee.


As far as their tier system, it's pretty iffy. The article says that their highest tier is $63 a month, for 30MBps service. I pay $63 a month currently, for an 8MBps service that's the highest in the Twin Cities area right now. Hopefully they'll either adjust the service according to the new "Ultra" tier, or adjust the price ?

One can hope.
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Must be nice. I pay $67 for 6mbps down and 400kbps up..... and thats on a good day.

I hate comcast, but I have no other option in Chicago for the price. :mad:
 
Hmm, I'm 18 and a student so I have 1.5Mbit DSL for $20/month since I game more than anything else and most of us should know that going to 3/6/9Mb connections doesn't/wouldn't exactly give you a better ping. I'm thinking about going to 3 or 6mb with comcast for under $30/monthm maybe.
 
I'm in the 8MB/s section, I pay $42 for it plus $15 for regular cable (60+ something channels). I actually like comcast, they're good in my area (soon to be getting some comp. tho), nice customer service, and I've got this hot technician chic who covers my area :D. I just got it made :p.

I've only had like 1 legitimate problem/service call in the past 2 yrs that I've been with them ;).

On speed tests I get about 27MB/s down and 1.5ishMB/s up. Of course, I have to be DLing a large file of around 1GB or more to even get halfway to that 27 figure, the powerboost only lasts up until 45-50% of the DL is complete. After that it cuts the DL in half up to around 75% completion and ends at about 1-2MB/s. If I'm downloading some beta Nv drivers, it will peak at around 2-2.5MB/s and ends at 1MB/s. This is using FireFox with a DL manager. If I use IE7, I don't have to use a DL manager, yet I still get slightly higher speeds :confused:.
 
3.0Mbps/512Kbps Dry Loop DSL, $28.99 a month NO TAXES
 
I unfortunately have to pay taxes, but it's still a good deal for the service I get. $59.xx after taxes. They plan to give all of their tiers about a 50% hike in bandwidth for no additional cost because of competition (which is coming into my area so YAY). If they can do it and keep the service consistent and problem free, then I'll be waiting with open arms. Of course some people have issues with Comcast service in their areas, I'm just glad not to be one of them :D.
 
Slyr7.62 said:
Hmm, I'm 18 and a student so I have 1.5Mbit DSL for $20/month since I game more than anything else and most of us should know that going to 3/6/9Mb connections doesn't/wouldn't exactly give you a better ping. I'm thinking about going to 3 or 6mb with comcast for under $30/monthm maybe.
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actually getting cable would probably give you a lower ping. Most DSL providers add latency to their DSL lines.

For example:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/11146
 
horrible in my area, it's pricey and the speeds aren't that great. I'm right outside of chicago and I would expect better. plus i had a theft by a contractor technician comcast sent out that I ended up getting my items back but I have to go to court :(
 
Deviationer, thank you for the input. I know going with the 1.5 or 3Mb comcast line for <$35 might give me a lower ping, but my ping is ok for me, 20-40 for local (cali) game servers(UT2k4) and <70 ping for dallas, Chi pings just suck for me here. I'm just thinking on going to 3Mbit comcast @ my mom's house, probably not hard since there's comcast cable TV there already, oh could be cable net there, I'm not sure. I've got 1.5Mbit DSL here @ my dad's(pings I listed). Money's tight otherwise I'd have 3+Mbit broadband already imo, ohwell. DL speeds atm are 150-160KB/s, max theoretical speed is 187.5 give or take. Fine for how lil DLing I/we do. shit, /long post.
 
I would be glad to have comcast but I cant, how great. But Im stuck with a POS 8/768 ~$65
 
personally if i was gonna spend 150/month i would rather get a Fractional T1
 
YES IN MINNESOTA!! I'll test it out for you guys. Finally the installer a few months ago knew what he was talking about.
 
I'm happy with the speed I'm getting now from comcast since I'm limited by the servers of the sites I visit. I just wish they'd lower prices. I'm paying $50/mo for 6mbps. I'm really tempted to switch to cheaper dsl and there's no FiOS available to me.
 
Nemesis999 said:
Ummm, you'd pay $150/month for a 1.544Mbit line? or even less if fractional?
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reasons for that is Comcast at least provides a gurantee on the fractional vs. this.. plus knowing comcast residential you still cannot use servers on the residential service without paying that lovely $1000.00 fine and getting automatically converted to a busienss line without your consent. and with the fractional at least you can use servers on it without any worry of downtime, and dealing with the stupid residential technical support provided by the one and only COMCAST..
 
dasaint said:
reasons for that is Comcast at least provides a gurantee on the fractional vs. this.. plus knowing comcast residential you still cannot use servers on the residential service without paying that lovely $1000.00 fine and getting automatically converted to a busienss line without your consent. and with the fractional at least you can use servers on it without any worry of downtime, and dealing with the stupid residential technical support provided by the one and only COMCAST..
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It's still a waste of money.
 
I am in Waco and Time Warner is my ISP. I have never had one problem with them.
I have RR Turbo, and they just in the last few days boosted my bandwidth. I am
now getting 15 megabits down (about 1750Kps) and about 240Kps up.

Not too shabby if you axe me. :)
 
I would pay it, if it meant no download caps. I could easily download 1TB/month if I had the BW and no caps.
 
Dew said:
I would pay it, if it meant no download caps. I could easily download 1TB/month if I had the BW and no caps.
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Now you gotta buy the harddrives :D

But if you're paying $150 a month for internet, I doubt that's an issue...
 
Blazestorm said:
Heh... Yea... I get 20mb down and 1.5up on their speedtests, but more like 6mb down and .3 up on torrents.

Next place I'm living I'm hoping for FIOS... 15down+up :D
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force encryption in your client if you havent already and disable dht.

also you probably get such high speeds on their speedtests because its showing you the burst speeds. I get 10mb down 1 up all the time and burst @ 30 down and 2 up (this is on comcast in central illinois)
 
Blazestorm said:
Now you gotta buy the harddrives :D

But if you're paying $150 a month for internet, I doubt that's an issue...
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See sig. If I had that kinda BW and no caps, Terabyte2 would be getting upgraded well ahead of schedule(Current plan is 2009).
 
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