rogers now offers "Extreme Plus" for $99/mo -- 18 Mbps down (unknown up, i'd hope it's higher than 1Mbps tho).. i do agree tho, that there's no plan at 10 Mbps...
Because you pay for the "installation" when the tech comes to your home. Meaning all they do is flip a damn switch outside & run a coaxial cable to your TV. Yeah, thats worth it. *rolls eyes*Everyone uses routers these days. They supply the modem & support other 3rd party modems, so they should AT LEAST TRY to help you when you have network trouble, instead of just saying "oh, we dont support routers. Sorry." Its THEIR service, no?? And they say that no matter what. So many times, the router isnt the problem.Besides, if they helped out, they would be a lot less instances of people running up their bandwidth because of an unsecured network.They suck.
The main problem I see with this invisible limit not being an amount of data, but a percentile in comparison to everyone else is that it inevitably continues to lower the limit. If you get rid of the highest 1% of your users, that still leaves a NEW group at 1%. so you get rid of them, and you have a new group in the 1% range. Theoretically it keeps going until you are starting to kick out people who were simply low-medium users. I mean, whereas you were once suspending people who were using a terabyte a month, you'd eventually be kicking out people who are using 50 GB a month because now they are the high end users in the top 1%. Where do you draw the line? That's the issue so far as I see it...
i never knew in 5 plus years of installation that there was a magical switch i was supposed to throw outside. how could you do a self installation if there was such a switch. even the power company doesn't throw a switch when they install service. and why on earth would any company setup a router for a customer when a home networking service is being sold by the same company. that's like bringing your own fries to McDonald's and asking to cook them for free since you bought a hamburger
Performance can be measured many ways. Latency is usually faster on DSL which can be more important than overall speed for online gaming, videoconferencing, even typing on the terminal. Here the max speed for DSL vs Cable is 6Mb vs 8Mb, but it is very seldom that u can actually get 6+Mb from Comcast. On the other hand, DSL always hits the 6Mb cap with faster latency.
I just had a phone call from a "Comcast Rep" who told me in very broken english that I had exceeded by more than double the 250 GB limit for downloads. When asked if I could monitor my usage in my comcast account, he said that was impossible but that I could download free software by doing a google search or I could use features built into my router. The root cause was probably that I had quite a few popular movie files shared using bit torrent. They didn't say anything about upload limits or differentiate between the two but I will be careful not to share files anymore and also be more selective on my downloads. I'm still looking for a good and easy to use program to monitor my total bandwidth from 3 computers on my linksys WRT 310 N router. Since I use network storage devices, the bandwidth from a single computer doesn't represent what Comcast is seeing. For the time being, I'll just be more conservative. I agree with others that it is patently unfair of Comcast to place this pseudo limit and not provide their customers with feedback on the data that they are obviously collecting.
smartssaAug 26, 2007
rogers now offers "Extreme Plus" for $99/mo -- 18 Mbps down (unknown up, i'd hope it's higher than 1Mbps tho).. i do agree tho, that there's no plan at 10 Mbps...
peestandingupAug 26, 2007
Because you pay for the "installation" when the tech comes to your home. Meaning all they do is flip a damn switch outside & run a coaxial cable to your TV. Yeah, thats worth it. *rolls eyes*Everyone uses routers these days. They supply the modem & support other 3rd party modems, so they should AT LEAST TRY to help you when you have network trouble, instead of just saying "oh, we dont support routers. Sorry." Its THEIR service, no?? And they say that no matter what. So many times, the router isnt the problem.Besides, if they helped out, they would be a lot less instances of people running up their bandwidth because of an unsecured network.They suck.
tidejweAug 26, 2007
The main problem I see with this invisible limit not being an amount of data, but a percentile in comparison to everyone else is that it inevitably continues to lower the limit. If you get rid of the highest 1% of your users, that still leaves a NEW group at 1%. so you get rid of them, and you have a new group in the 1% range. Theoretically it keeps going until you are starting to kick out people who were simply low-medium users. I mean, whereas you were once suspending people who were using a terabyte a month, you'd eventually be kicking out people who are using 50 GB a month because now they are the high end users in the top 1%. Where do you draw the line? That's the issue so far as I see it...
jstory01Aug 26, 2007
i never knew in 5 plus years of installation that there was a magical switch i was supposed to throw outside. how could you do a self installation if there was such a switch. even the power company doesn't throw a switch when they install service. and why on earth would any company setup a router for a customer when a home networking service is being sold by the same company. that's like bringing your own fries to McDonald's and asking to cook them for free since you bought a hamburger
managemyrightsSep 7, 2007
Performance can be measured many ways. Latency is usually faster on DSL which can be more important than overall speed for online gaming, videoconferencing, even typing on the terminal. Here the max speed for DSL vs Cable is 6Mb vs 8Mb, but it is very seldom that u can actually get 6+Mb from Comcast. On the other hand, DSL always hits the 6Mb cap with faster latency.
kuzotzSep 10, 2007
comcast doesn't exist in Oklahoma.We have.SBC, Roadrunner, and Cox Cable. For our broadband connections.
btbuzFeb 5, 2009
I just had a phone call from a "Comcast Rep" who told me in very broken english that I had exceeded by more than double the 250 GB limit for downloads. When asked if I could monitor my usage in my comcast account, he said that was impossible but that I could download free software by doing a google search or I could use features built into my router. The root cause was probably that I had quite a few popular movie files shared using bit torrent. They didn't say anything about upload limits or differentiate between the two but I will be careful not to share files anymore and also be more selective on my downloads. I'm still looking for a good and easy to use program to monitor my total bandwidth from 3 computers on my linksys WRT 310 N router. Since I use network storage devices, the bandwidth from a single computer doesn't represent what Comcast is seeing. For the time being, I'll just be more conservative. I agree with others that it is patently unfair of Comcast to place this pseudo limit and not provide their customers with feedback on the data that they are obviously collecting.