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Comcast introduces new, fast 105Mbps cable service
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article published on 14 April, 2011
Comcast has introduced their new Extreme 105 cable service today, offering 105Mbps downstream, at least 15 times faster than most of the other plans they offer.
The service is available in major cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Miami.
Says Comcast:
This speed tier takes (our Internet services) to a whole new level. ... [ read the full article ]
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14. April 2011 @ 23:33 |
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10Mbps upsteam for $105? I get three times that for less than $40.
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15. April 2011 @ 00:24 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
10Mbps upsteam for $105? I get three times that for less than $40.
The upload is completely garbage for the price. Also, if the 105Mbps service is still capped at 250GB it's totally worthless. For $105/month the thing needs to be cap-free.
FiOS also puts the upload to shame; they offer a symmetrical 25Mbps connection for $65/month. The closest download speed from FiOS, however, is a 150Mbps/35Mbps at $200/month.
Also, this says it costs $105 for the first 12 months in a bundle. I bet after the first year and/or outside the bundle it costs the same or more than the mentioned FiOS service.
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15. April 2011 @ 01:19 |
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What are you going to do with a 105Mbps downstream anyway? I can maybe see it if it was a 105/105...but without the upstream, speedtest.net will be the only site where you can see any difference from a 50Mbps connection.
BTW...I do have FiOS...their 12 month bundle is the reason I am paying less than $40 a month for 30/30 internet.
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15. April 2011 @ 01:35 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
What are you going to do with a 105Mbps downstream anyway?
I don't know. In terms of just speed though the average Internet user probably doesn't need more than ~7Mbps on a home connection.
I just find it funny that Comcast probably caps this service at 250GB/month; if you had something that could max out your connection you could hit the cap in about seven hours.
105Mb/8 = 13.125MBps
13.125MBps * 0.8 = 10.5MBps
250GB/10.5MBps = 6.77248677 hours
Originally posted by KillerBug:
BTW...I do have FiOS...their 12 month bundle is the reason I am paying less than $40 a month for 30/30 internet.
That makes sense. I'd just hate to see what Comcast wants to charge for this service in a stand-alone situation if they plan to charge a promotional rate of $105 in a bundle.
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15. April 2011 @ 02:30 |
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Comcast are a bunch of crooks you will never get a good price from them unless you get one of their promotes without it everything is way overpriced.
Basic cable with only 26 channels is 21.95, if you want the one next in line the price goes all the way to 54! wtF
Basic internet with 1.5 megabits is 24.95, if you want to uprage from that its 54.95 if you don't have cable with them and 44.95 if you have their cable.
I wish I could get fios
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15. April 2011 @ 12:57 |
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Marketing BS as normal! When I had their 20M service I was lucky to get 1.5M and peak periods were worst of course.
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15. April 2011 @ 15:21 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Marketing BS as normal! When I had their 20M service I was lucky to get 1.5M and peak periods were worst of course.
1.5 on a 20 line??? I'd say you are well within your rights to sue/ get all your money back for fraudulent service.
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15. April 2011 @ 15:24 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
10Mbps upsteam for $105? I get three times that for less than $40.
From where bragger Mcgee??
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15. April 2011 @ 18:26 |
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Originally posted by lissenup3:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
10Mbps upsteam for $105? I get three times that for less than $40.
From where bragger Mcgee??
If you actually read the rest of the thread you would have seen his post after that stating he has FiOS.
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15. April 2011 @ 22:42 |
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I'd drop Comcast internet in a heartbeat if FIOS was available in the Houston area. Sadly it isn't & I wish that it was. Oh & AT&T just started a cap on internet service btw.....
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15. April 2011 @ 23:13 |
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I wish we had FIOS in the Minneapolis area too, but sadly not. It would be nice to have more cable companies and satelite providers as well. They like it that you do not have too many choices, advantage monopolies...
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15. April 2011 @ 23:20 |
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Originally posted by DVDBack23:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Marketing BS as normal! When I had their 20M service I was lucky to get 1.5M and peak periods were worst of course.
1.5 on a 20 line??? I'd say you are well within your rights to sue/ get all your money back for fraudulent service.
They say in the agreement that there are no guarantees so basically they can lie through their teeth and they DO! Just like Unlimited service is pretty much NEVER unlimited, what?s up with that?
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16. April 2011 @ 01:06 |
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I have AT&T. It's a supposed 6Mbps. I get an average of about 1.5Mbps... When it was first upgraded from the 3Mbps (where it was still a 1.5 actual), it was about 4-5Mbps. In a couple weeks it was back down to the 1.5Mbps. With all this union crap going on lately, there needs to be a customer union with all these direct lie rates.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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16. April 2011 @ 01:39 |
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That's kind of how mine went with comcast, it started out 7M then they bumped it to 12M, then I had what they call business service and that brought it up to around an actual 3M then it dropped back down to around 1.5M, then they upped it to 16M but my speed stayed the same for the most part, and you can see how this went much like your experience with AT&T.
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16. April 2011 @ 02:37 |
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Wow guys I feel for you..I'm glad I have Cablevision then...16Mbps paid for..average 14Mbps, even during peak.
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16. April 2011 @ 02:52 |
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CoD is unbearable. Battlefield does a pretty good job accounting for the connection but CoD spazzes quite a bit :/
Not to mention downloads really test my patience.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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16. April 2011 @ 02:53 |
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16. April 2011 @ 03:00 |
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If cloud services are ever going to take the place of secondary storage, they are going to need upload speeds at least rivaling a slow HDD. This will pit companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google against the ISPs. It will be interesting to see who will win.
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16. April 2011 @ 03:01 |
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Originally posted by keebles:
Nothing can compare to google's FREE broadband internet
http://www.google.com/tisp/
HA! I forgot about that. I think that was one of there better ones.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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16. April 2011 @ 09:42 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
That's kind of how mine went with comcast, it started out 7M then they bumped it to 12M, then I had what they call business service and that brought it up to around an actual 3M then it dropped back down to around 1.5M, then they upped it to 16M but my speed stayed the same for the most part, and you can see how this went much like your experience with AT&T.
I think my service from Comcast is for about a 15M speed. I get 6m on average with speed bursts uo to 20m sometimes. Of course I pay around $70 per month for internet only service from them.
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16. April 2011 @ 11:34 |
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Originally posted by bratcher:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
That's kind of how mine went with comcast, it started out 7M then they bumped it to 12M, then I had what they call business service and that brought it up to around an actual 3M then it dropped back down to around 1.5M, then they upped it to 16M but my speed stayed the same for the most part, and you can see how this went much like your experience with AT&T.
I think my service from Comcast is for about a 15M speed. I get 6m on average with speed bursts uo to 20m sometimes. Of course I pay around $70 per month for internet only service from them.
I was paying $60/mo but my speed ratings are actual not going out to some hokey speed test site and seeing what they meter it at through a given host city. If I was to do that I would see around 12M however that truly isn't relevant or realistic.
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16. April 2011 @ 11:41 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by bratcher:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
That's kind of how mine went with comcast, it started out 7M then they bumped it to 12M, then I had what they call business service and that brought it up to around an actual 3M then it dropped back down to around 1.5M, then they upped it to 16M but my speed stayed the same for the most part, and you can see how this went much like your experience with AT&T.
I think my service from Comcast is for about a 15M speed. I get 6m on average with speed bursts uo to 20m sometimes. Of course I pay around $70 per month for internet only service from them.
I was paying $60/mo but my speed ratings are actual not going out to some hokey speed test site and seeing what they meter it at through a given host city. If I was to do that I would see around 12M however that truly isn't relevant or realistic.
I measure my connection speeds with the networking tab of Windows Task Manager.
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16. April 2011 @ 12:31 |
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That's about the same difference as using a speed test it really isn't a true measure. When I say that I get 3M that is a sustain max limit. I can reach this by trying to do multiple downloads and as I get past the limit the download rates start to decrease per DL link. If I add them up they will determine my actual throughput instead of some burst rate. If you have too many links and get past your max your throughput performance will drop so the key is not to overdo it. Typically I get to 3-4 DL's and I'm at my max from there my overall throughput drops and I lose performance.
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16. April 2011 @ 17:23 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by bratcher:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
That's kind of how mine went with comcast, it started out 7M then they bumped it to 12M, then I had what they call business service and that brought it up to around an actual 3M then it dropped back down to around 1.5M, then they upped it to 16M but my speed stayed the same for the most part, and you can see how this went much like your experience with AT&T.
I think my service from Comcast is for about a 15M speed. I get 6m on average with speed bursts uo to 20m sometimes. Of course I pay around $70 per month for internet only service from them.
I was paying $60/mo but my speed ratings are actual not going out to some hokey speed test site and seeing what they meter it at through a given host city. If I was to do that I would see around 12M however that truly isn't relevant or realistic.
My 1.5M was consistent and from all local servers. Plus, just doing single downloads sit around that.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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