Comcast Plans Faster Net Speeds

I want.....

The full speed I pay for now 24/7, no excuses.

Then we can talk about raising speeds and rates.
 
TheCreator said:
MINNESOTA? WTF kind of place is that to roll this out first at.... lol
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That was my thought when I saw this, and I LIVE in Minnesota, haha. There wasn't ANY broadband where I live just 6 years ago (other than satellite which is frankly useless), it's just bizarre that they are rolling it out here. This raises the question though, where is this extra bandwidth coming from? Lowering quality of "normal" internet packages? Perhaps the TV service as well?

The upstream would be really nice (the current 6Mbps down is fairly sufficient IMO), but I'm going to wait and see what other people say before dropping that kind of money. They seem to not like people uploading stuff already, and if I spend $150 I want to be able to USE that upstream. The funny thing is with that kind of downstream my wireless (G) card would be the limiting factor as far as download speed is concerned, and possibly the hard drives too :)
 
Oh forgot one last thing, ideally I'd just get FIOS and not have to deal with comcasts crap, but it isn't available in Minnesota and probably won't be anytime soon, so this is my only real choice if I want good upstream for a relatively reasonable price.
 
I'd wager that the bandwidth is coming from converting everything to digital cable and away from analog.

Also, Minnesota.. it seems like someplace that wouldn't have a really dense population. Probably just easier for them to try something like that out with lesser population and fewer network pieces.

It might be a more interesting package if they increased the upload on it. 50M down is cool and all, but I'd like to get 10 up.
 
Comcast cut me off at ~400gb downloaded within a month early this year. Am now on ATT Uverse.
 
herryoyo said:
It might be a more interesting package if they increased the upload on it. 50M down is cool and all, but I'd like to get 10 up.
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Yeah I agree, I'd rather have 10/10 than 50/6. That's more of limitation of the cable networks though, they were originally designed to be pretty much all downstream. They could be upgraded of course but that would require making the stockholders unhappy as it has significant costs.

Still 6mbps is a pretty good deal when you compare to the current offerings. 384kbit is about $45 a month (or 8.5kbit per dollar), whereas 6144kbit (6mbit) for $150 is 41kbit per dollar. Obviously it's nowhere near the 15/15mbit FIOS for $70 or so, but as mentioned FIOS isn't available in many places so this is a decent alternative (if they actually let you use that bandwidth which remains to be seen)
 
I can't wait... anything is better than nothing.


$150? Sign me up.
 
here in SW FL it is either comcast or Embarqe so I get to choose between a turd or pile of poop. I chose the turd and have comcast. the service itself is very good and never goes out even during hurricane Wilma, but customer service is a joke. or to phrase it better, it is comcastic! When I had sprint/embarq service it went out 2-5 times a week.
 
Let me say this again...

High speed internet is being setup so that cable companies can move their services off of coax which is being taxed to the max due to HD.

While you may for a short while get good/better internet connectivity, you can already see that creative users are figuring out how to saturate their internet such that the cable companies feel it necessary to throttle everyone.

Why would offering faster speeds to the home make any difference? The outbound traffic from the ISP/cable company is still expensive. So, while you may have blazing fast speeds possible TO the ISP, I highly doubt this will be the case to the internet as a whole.

Ultimately, the fat pipes will be from our homes to the ISP's data center where we will be pulling down our cable tv and pay-per-view media from. This is why the higher through put is needed. General internet access will still be a problem at the speeds they are talking about.
 
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Comcast is far from slow... It depends on what package you have!

There are many ways to obtain fast speeds like what i have, you just need to read out on the web

They clearly arent slow, on usenet i can load balance two cable modemss from comcast and hit 5mb/s.

Thats pretty quick in my opinion.. :)

Pm me if you want to learn on these speeds.
 
My question (before I pm you), is... is it legal and does it cost an arm and a leg?
 
How about they fix their crappy compression on their HD channels before increasing internet speed.
 
Reset my modem about 30mins ago and they did indeed upgrade the upstream bandwidth. I've been seeding a torrent at 100+K/S for that whole half hour (I'm on the cheapest plan btw). This increase should tide me over for awhile at least, until I can get a clearer picture of just how good the new 50/6 package is.
 
They barely keep me as a customer at around $45/month, let alone 150. The only reason I haven't dropped them for someone else is I'm too lazy to switch over...........for now. They raise it again, and I'm GONE to Verizon.

Right now: 24571 kb/s down
2356 kb/s up
65 ms ping @ 150 mi.
 
"Comcast plans faster net speeds" ... In the small areas where verison provides FIOS, thus forcing said ISP to actually offer a competitive service? Hmm, If this is the result of competition... Then I wont see this service for at least two decades. ;)

Nemesis999 said:
It's still a waste of money.
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For checking your email, it is a waste of money.
If you are running "servers", and there are DSL providers in the area who are willing to charge you at a reasonable price for downloading/uploading at 1-3Mbs continually, it is a waste of money.
If you can have one of your servers co-located in a datacenter, its a waste of money.


If there are no DSL, cable, or other providers willing to let you *fully utilize* a connection for a reasonable price, then a fractional T1 @ 150/month is reasonable, considering a 64Kb IDSN line would cost me that much. The fractional T1 would probably cost far more by the time the company adds on fees, charges, taxes, and whatever else they want you to pay for.
 
woot woot, minnesota represent.....although until the price goes down or they start to bump up regular subsrcubers with faster speeds or just offer an in between poackage somewehre like fios i probably wont be partaking......still, cool that they offered it in my area first.........
 
Ahhh, nevermind, just did a speedtest myself and it's bits. Wow mine is slow, maybe should have stopped my xbox 360 downloads and closed utorrent and the laptop turned off.
 
faster speed! because we are throttling everything you do on your connection!!!
 
What good is all that speed when you can't use bittorrent or emule? Of what use are those kinds of transfer speeds if not for file sharing? Comcast is a joke.
 
I wonder how much in gigs am I allowed to download before I get cut off?
 
kuyaglen said:
I wonder how much in gigs am I allowed to download before I get cut off?
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I got a letter threatening termination @ ~500 gigs in 1 month...

I've gotten a lot of letters from them though, mostly about sharing stuff (Maybe 8 letters in the past ... 8 years?)
 
I don't know about the price, but so far I've been happy with comcast. I can stream HD through a slingbox half way across the world with no lag or hickups and my download speeds are always over 20 megs. I just don't see paying $150 a month for this "improved" tier, the cable bills already $250 a month, not sure I want to tack on another 100 to say I get theoretical 50 megs down, already have the 5 megs up.
 


I'm thinking about going from 15/2 to 15/15.

I <3 FiOS though.

In the past 6 months. Its only gone out once. And that was last week. And they had it back up within the hour.

I had nothing but disconnects every few days with Comcast.
 
Comcast needs to fix their current network before they add features to it. Seriously, mine had so many outages I switched to DSL and its much faster.

I have no plans to go back to Comcast for at least a few years, if ever.
 
btw, even though i am in minnesota, the apparent epicenter for this new superspeed package, i have the plain old traditional package from comcast, and it works fine, i think every ISP has a slew of people that have had nightmares, and in the world that is the real i'm willing to wager they pretty much ALL suck at tech support when there is a real problem.

anyway here are my speeds on the basic comcast package (ok speed boost mucks any possible accurate speed test, still these are MY regular initial boost speeds):
 
I talked to a rep at comcast, apparently both the upload and download speeds are "speedboosted"...

The first 60 seconds of your upload/download is essentially doubled... after that, it's brought back to your "normal" speed. Most people I'm guessing are under the assumption that their torrents are getting throttled, it's just this speed-boost crap.

I got upgraded to 8mb down .7 up (according to the rep) and I tested it, it's more like 8down and 1up going to my FTP which maxes out my connection.

So that's good atleast :D
 
gojirasan said:
What good is all that speed when you can't use bittorrent or emule? Of what use are those kinds of transfer speeds if not for file sharing? Comcast is a joke.
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I use emule on comcast, and I download many movies every month, I don't think comcast has emule on their radar at this point.
 
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