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- klassik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is only in Virginia, and in areas where they've deployed Verizons FIOS.
- anthony1124, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12i think you mean 30mbps down and 2mbps up
- eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8People, if you have an old cable modem you will not see the faster speeds. You need to upgrade so they/you can use the latedt DOCISS standard. Read dslreports.
- loker269, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6this has been happening for a while....right now its still only in a few areas and I would not be surprised if it stays in areas where they compete with Verizon FiOS....
- GrinningFool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5seumas - I've had comcast for several years and never hit any kind of cap. And I do some heavy downloading and uploading. Maybe your thinking of satellite, which clearly posts that in their TOS?
- jefflundberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5According to a Comcast rep, they are performing "speed tests in some areas". They didn't comment on when it would be readily available. It's typical of Comcast to slowly roll out speed increases until everyone eventually has it.
- poet_will, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They do offer a tiered plan set-up. You have the basic 4-6 download and the "Gamer" 8 download. It is a price increase of $10 but almost a two-fold performance increase. I upgraded recently because they have the upgrade free for 3 months. Oh, and they included a free membership to the IGN Founder's Club (or something like that).
What is strange though is that if my computer is hooked right into the modem I get those increased speeds, but through my 54G wireless I get the old speeds. Maybe I should go look into a firmware update. - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It could have been your modem or a signal issue. I upgraded my modem and got a 25% speed increase.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is sweet. Unlike some people, I actually get the full speeds that Comcast provides. This will allow me to download (legally ;) ) even faster. It might be time for me to start updating my upgrades page again. http://www.wrt54g.net/comcast/
- nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7damn it is not fair!!!! charter get off your ass, everybody is beating you.
- cokebottletuque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I am sure most know what happens when everyone on the block is rocking their cable TV's and modem simultaniously." ya nothing happens it stays the same. the signals used for television are always present on the line they dont magically go away wen no one is using them, and they have no effect on the frequencies put aside for Internet access.
- web.phreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Optimum Boost baby! Quick form to fill out and 5 mins to reboot the modem and BAM!! -- confirmed 30 down 2 up...
Like friggin' Christmas in March!!!!
Pretty soon we'll be bitching about SATA limitations when storage bus bandwidth becomes the bottleneck... - JRMillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wish I could get comcast where I live in MA, but charter is my only option... I get 3M down, 256k up... they called to try to sell me on 5M down and 512k Up... but it costs more and they are already ripping me off for what I have now so I don't really want to give them the satisfaction of getting more money from me :)
- vinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Personally, I don't need anymore download speed. My 8MBps is fine. I would like some more upload speed though, my 768kbps isn't enough for streaming video from my home server when I'm on the road. It's good enough for audio, but not video.
- wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4obviously you've never heard of the concept of how bittorrent works, the more you give the faster you get?
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If they're trying to compete with FiOS, I think this is too little, too late. The Gold package costs more and FiOS is already cheaper than Comcast's basic service and faster than Gold.
- mthode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6They are trying to give me 8mb / 768kb but it is only 4mb / 768kb
- mthode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I just decided to run simultaneous speed tests and guess what, it gave me full speed.
My guess is that the do bandwidth throttling - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very nice, it's about time the US starts upgrading these services. We are way behind compared to the rest of the world. Yes, Charter should start increasing speeds.
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I live in norcal. they said no way to me getting 16/1
- macenthe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wish this assumption about cable would go away, because it is much more the exception than the rule. I know (with reasonable certainty) that my neighborhood has about 50% penetration w/ Road Runner and I have never gotten poor performance. I regularly get over 3Mbps when downloading from reliable sites; and I can run uTorrent on full blast and still play on Xbox Live with no problem. The big cable modem (Comcast, TimeWarner, etc) providers got rid of the "low bandwidth at peak times" problems years ago. Cable is better value than DSL in terms of broadwidth.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now if they could just work on the getting disconnected every hour problem I might go back.
- GetInLine1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I pay for the 8/768 and I get the speed consistently too.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Will they still penalize users for actually using the bandwidth Comcast advertises, which the user is paying for?
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do "gaming" routers add any useful functionality for gamers, or is it a gimmick? Will help my lag in COD2, or host 16player GRAWs?
- buryme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think the correction was for the reversal of up/down... Judging by anthony's entire sentence, he likely cares little about capitalization.
- rmdl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is bad thinking.
You shouldn't be happy that they're FINALLY rolling out 16/1 speeds. You should be ***** IRATE.
These are speeds we should've had 5 years ago.
Do people not realize that we've HAD the technology for years now, yet aren't being utilized because of these corporations?
Do people not realize that the US it NOT one of the top countries for broadband connectivity speeds even though we should be?
Ridiculous. - tnoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Haven't seen the Comcast roll out of the new speeds in this area yet, but I am enjoying my FIOS service. 15mbit down 2mbit up can't be beat!
- wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2problem is not always the modem using the latest DOCSIS standard, but the cable system itself, i know time warner (road runner) headends have been using 1.1 for some time now, and is now just starting to roll out 2.0 in q4 of this year...now, as for RR offering 16/1 speeds....yeah, right....i can only dream! Lucky Comcast users! :p
I've actually been considering getting business class service so i can get a better upload rate than 384! Even if i pay for the premium home serivce, i still only get the 384 up. - ZachPruckowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I worry that they associate up-speeds with piracy. That might be part of the reason. If everyone had 5Mbit up speeds, it'd accelerate piracy in that pirates would pirate more content.
- archer75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I only have Internet from Comcast. Not TV. I own my router so the cost for the basic plan is $52.95 for 4mb down and 384 up. For an extra $2/month you get 6mb down. For $62.95/month you get 8mb down and 768kbps up.
That's what I have now. - xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hopefully, they'll expand to other states
- MissionSix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've had comcast HSI for a number of years now, i'm still on 4mb / 368 kbit. I'm in a fairly populated area, but I dont have comcast cable, only HSI. And I can only get the 8 mb/s down if I pay $20 more... or the 6 mb/s for $10 more... such a rip.
- jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Awesome, but the up speed still needs to increase. I think 3/3 should be the standard in the US, maybe even faster. Also, how much does it cost?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who will this effect? and what is the gold?
- Xsecrets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to agree with the modem comments. When the upgrade to 6mbits came to my area my connection all of a sudden fell to 300k with tons of dropped packets. I went through the whole it must be your router thing then told them to just appease me and replace the modem. As soon as I did that It jumped right up to 6mbps (I really wasn't expecting the full bandwidth, but I got it.)
- copperkidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hopefully this comes to Adelphia customers too since Comcast bought them.
- Homer41, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Emailed Comcast and got this back:
"The service that provides up to 16 mb down and 1 mb upload is an experimental service that is currently being tested in one town on our network. It's not known when or if those speeds will be rolled out to other areas at this time. More will be known in the coming months as the testing is completed" - SeanMoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who the ***** is Comcast kidding they can't even get 6mb right, always blaming the customer when they knowingly have outages (Sir have reset your cable modem, The problem is most likely your router) . The stuff Big Corporations get away with is disgusting. Comcast should stick to what they know ruining good T.V. channels
- cisox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have the Comcast Business DSL at 8Mb down and I had horrible speeds through my router. I have a D-Link Gaming Router that works very well, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my internet speed. I ended up increasing the security on my wireless connection and I haven't had any issues since. I don't know if there was some neighbor of mine running a lot of torrents or if it was just some weird setting in the router. Regardless, 8Mb down is awesome, I can't wait for 16Mbs down.
- loker269, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2grinningfool....there is in fact caps on comcast they just do not disclose the number.....so far the conclusion is its around 600 GB a month before you get a letter and a temporary disconnect.....
- champs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DSL's dedicated link between the CPE and the central office is only a theoretical advantage. The shared bandwidth of cable is fine, as long as there's enough to go around for everyone. Regardless of network topology, there is no guarantee of bandwidth further upstream, anyway.
- partialinfinity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Actually, he was correct, It's Mbps. You may have been thinking about the capital B (designating bytes) and lowercase b (designating bits). http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Mbps.html
- brashquido, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Comcast obviously want to gain that No.1 spot in the "10 Worst Spam Service ISPs" list;
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso - Complexium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Crappy speed.....some place in Sweden is being upgraded to 1 Gigabit/s.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yea right..."16 mbps" when it was 8, i'd struggle to get 4 down...
- tomaburque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Instead of just yelling "WHOOT" I wish someone whould actually test one of these super fast connections and see if the claimed speeds are actually achieved in real world usage. I have never heard of anything on the Internet giving a continuous data rate faster than 3 or 4 megs. So, what's the point? All I can think of is maybe getting 10 or more DVD bittorrents going at the same time. Then you have to wonder if the cable company is going to throttle packets they know are file trading.
- v0id, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i love my fiber connection from surewest. California is great.
- wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, i'd like to see some more hard evidence than just a speed test....maybe a news article?
- microdude431, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fios is comming out with a new 50/15 package. There is only so fast that you can go on that copper wire!
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