The 'Ultra' plan for individuals will offer speeds up to 22 Mbps for downloading and up to 5 upstream for $62.95 a month
To get the new Internet plans, individuals must also subscribe to Comcast's cable TV service.
Originally posted by: Platypus
I sure as fuck hope this comes to my area..
The 'Ultra' plan for individuals will offer speeds up to 22 Mbps for downloading and up to 5 upstream for $62.95 a month
Comcast charges 62.95 a month for 4Mbps/128k up in Chicago. I have to call every 6 months and threaten to switch to DSL to keep my $35.00 price tag.
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Platypus
I sure as fuck hope this comes to my area..
The 'Ultra' plan for individuals will offer speeds up to 22 Mbps for downloading and up to 5 upstream for $62.95 a month
Comcast charges 62.95 a month for 4Mbps/128k up in Chicago. I have to call every 6 months and threaten to switch to DSL to keep my $35.00 price tag.
I did not know they still offered that low service...
Originally posted by: Platypus
6Mbps is 69.99 lol.
fuck comcast, I had the best cable company right down the street but my condo assoc has an exclusive contract with Comcast in my new building. Their service sucks dicks.
Originally posted by: dakels
What happens when you hit the cap? Your speed slows down dramatically? I have noticed a few things but never made any real technical analysis. In the 4 years I have been with comcast, I have downloaded heavily in a month or 2 and all of a sudden my connection would go really slow. That did not always affect the entire internet connection though. I could hit an FTP and it was fine, but a newsgroup or torrent would go terribly slow. Recently I have noticed that I sometimes can't connect to some torrents, other times I can. Is this "being capped"?
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
damn platypus..
15mbps w/powerboost is 42.95$
My 50mb/10mb connection is 139.99$
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
damn platypus..
15mbps w/powerboost is 42.95$
My 50mb/10mb connection is 139.99$
I should note that I just get internet, not TV service.. they ream you for that.
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
damn platypus..
15mbps w/powerboost is 42.95$
My 50mb/10mb connection is 139.99$
I should note that I just get internet, not TV service.. they ream you for that.
those were my prices for JUST internet too..I have dish.
Bay State users of Comcast Corp.'s broadband Internet service will soon be able to download files a lot quicker. Comcast has introduced a new technology that could make the service run twice as fast for most customers, while offering even faster speeds for those willing to pay extra.
"Comcast is really changing the experience of our users and revolutionizing what people can do on the Internet," said Mitch Bowling, general manager of the company's online services business.
But a spokesman for Verizon Communications Inc., a rival, said that Comcast is just catching up with Verizon's FIOS service, which delivers data at much higher speeds than Comcast's previous broadband offerings.
Most users of Comcast's broadband service get download speeds of either 6 or 8 megabits per second, compared to Verizon's basic FIOS service, which delivers 10 megabits per second. But thanks to Comcast's new technology, called Docsis 3.0, customers will see their top speeds doubled to 12 or 16 megabits, respectively, at no additional cost.
In addition, Comcast will offer two premium broadband services: 22 megabits for $62.95 a month and 50 megabits for $139.95 a month. Verizon already offers similar FIOS services at about the same prices.
Bowling said the new Comcast services are available in about 100 Massachusetts and New Hampshire communities, including Foxborough, Framingham, Natick, New Bedford, and Manchester, N.H.
Docsis 3.0 service has also been launched in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, and in parts of New Jersey.
Though 14.4 million US households subscribe to Comcast Internet service, about 50 million households have access to the network. The company said it will be able to deliver the service to 20 percent of those homes by year's end, and to gradually upgrade the rest over the next couple of years.
The speed boost won't affect Comcast's plan to limit its customers' Internet use. Starting this month, users who download more than 250 gigabytes of data per month could be disconnected. A Comcast spokesman, Jim Hughes, said Docsis 3.0 doesn't eliminate the need to set limits on bandwidth usage. He said that only about 1 percent of users ever exceed the limit, and he doubted that higher download speeds would cause customers to sharply increase their downloading.
The Comcast upgrade comes at a time when fewer Americans are signing up for new broadband Internet accounts. According to Strategy Analytics Inc. of Newton, Comcast added 278,000 subscribers nationwide in the second quarter of the year, down 18 percent from the same period in 2007. But demand for DSL, a slower broadband service offered by Verizon and other telephone companies, has fallen much faster. Orders for Verizon DSL dropped 81 percent in the second quarter of 2008.
"DSL can no longer compete with what cable has to offer," said Ben Piper, broadband analyst at Strategy Analytics.
Verizon is fighting back with FIOS, a $23 billion effort to run fiber-optic data lines directly to millions of homes. A fiber connection can carry far more data than Verizon's old-fashioned copper telephone wires. FIOS allows Verizon to compete with Comcast and other cable companies in delivering television services as well as faster Internet connections. Verizon has signed up 2 million FIOS customers in 14 states; the service is available in 84 Massachusetts communities.
Verizon spokesman Phil Santoro said Comcast is rushing to deploy Docsis 3.0 because its standard services can't measure up to FIOS. "I think they have to do something," he said, "and this is their best attempt at that."
Originally posted by: God Mode
ISP's know that a lot of people heavily depend on their services for both entertainment and work. If their business model and practice isnt audited by a consumer agency, things will only get worse.
I would get the business package for my cable but internet provider pricing models suck. On one month I would use 3GB. On another I would use a lot more. The only fair solution is to have rollover bandwidth. I sure wouldnt like my electric company charging me the same price every month even though I might be away on vacation for month.
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Cue the 1% of internet users who go over 250GB because they violate intellectual property laws.
WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
How about those of us who were really looking forward to services like 1080p movie rentals from Netflix via Xbox Live? Do you have any idea how much data is needed to utilize that service regularly? 250GB is not reasonable.
Really? 20 movies a month wouldn't suffice?
The average 1080p movie is between 25-30 GB and my family watches about 10 movies total per week.
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Cue the 1% of internet users who go over 250GB because they violate intellectual property laws.
WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
How about those of us who were really looking forward to services like 1080p movie rentals from Netflix via Xbox Live? Do you have any idea how much data is needed to utilize that service regularly? 250GB is not reasonable.
Really? 20 movies a month wouldn't suffice?
The average 1080p movie is between 25-30 GB and my family watches about 10 movies total per week.
Then guess what? Just like any other service, you get to pay more for being in the top 1% of users.
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Then guess what? Just like any other service, you get to pay more for being in the top 1% of users.
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Or stop downloading illegal content.
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Then guess what? Just like any other service, you get to pay more for being in the top 1% of users.
I understand that to a degree, but how much is the question? Comcast is telling me that the only way I can do this is by paying over 3 times the amount I pay now and in addition I am required to drop my TV service with DirecTV and go with Comcast's service. Not only that, but they are also telling me that when I purchase any option where I am getting 250GB per month I don't actually get to keep that 250GB if I do not use it.
I see no reason why I must have their cable TV service. I see no reason why they will not offer roll over bandwidth. I see no reason why the only option where I can get what I want will cost me over 3 times what I am paying now without even taking into consideration the cost of their cable tv service. It's bullshit. The only reason why they are able to get away with this crap is lack of enough reasonable competition.
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Or stop downloading illegal content.
Read more. I don't download illegal content.
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Get a DSL line, a sat link, or at some point FIOS.
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
damn platypus..
15mbps w/powerboost is 42.95$
My 50mb/10mb connection is 139.99$
I should note that I just get internet, not TV service.. they ream you for that.
those were my prices for JUST internet too..I have dish.
I don't doubt it. Comcast is fucking ridiculous. I paid way less for 6Mbps when I lived in the suburbs. Chicago proper is just insane $ wise; not just with Cumblast.
Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
damn platypus..
15mbps w/powerboost is 42.95$
My 50mb/10mb connection is 139.99$
I should note that I just get internet, not TV service.. they ream you for that.
those were my prices for JUST internet too..I have dish.
I don't doubt it. Comcast is fucking ridiculous. I paid way less for 6Mbps when I lived in the suburbs. Chicago proper is just insane $ wise; not just with Cumblast.
Damn dude, I'm paying $43/mo for 6Mbit w/Comcast.