RSSComcast Revs Up High Speed Internet
By David Worthington | Published July 28, 2004, 1:36 AM
From its headquarters in Philadelphia, Comcast has indicated that it will offer its High-Speed Internet customers a 4 Mbps speed tier as a new service option directed towards homes with multiple PCs and power users. Comcast is also increasing e-mail storage to 1.7 GB, nearly doubling the space offered by Google's free Gmail service. Earlier this year, Comcast upgraded all of its customer accounts with a 3 Mbps download stream at no additional cost.
Now Comcast needs to offer a lower priced tier. 1500/256 for $15 dollars less. The speed I had last year was fast enough.
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http://www.cmcsk.com/pho...gular&id=597045&;
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How odd that not a single person has noted that this is nothing new ? Comcast has offered this higher tier for a year now :) I have had 4mb/384 for 6+ months myself.
Nothing like keeping the news releases well behind the actual delivery of the product -)
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In Syracuse, NY where I live Road Runner offers Road Runner Premium which is 6Mb/s down and 512kb/s up for $64.95 if you have digital cable and digital phone. $84.95 a month if all you have is RR premium.
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I pulled this from the comcast page, just to clarify -- "Do you like your Internet super fast, or superduper fast? Choose between standard 3Mbps/256Kbps or, for $10 more a month, 4Mbps/384Kbps." -- and it's potato, not potatoe as was made famous by a certain former vice president.
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I'm looking to buying a house in the Dallas / Fort Worth area which is one of the rollout cities for Verizon Fios (FTTP) Fiber To The Premises, which has three tiers: 5Mbps/2Mbps for $39.95, 15Mbps/2Mbps for $49.95, and 30Mbps/5Mbps for a price yet determined. Yep I will have a fiber optic connection to the net from my house.. Comcast and other cable companies are going to get nailed hard by this rollout...so far only from Verizon.
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hey comcast upgrade my upload speed! uploading stuff to my webpage takes forever :(
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I'm moving to the DFW area... STAT!!! Christ, I'll leave my wife and step son for those rates.
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I believe Jasyl was referring to Kbytes per second and he is correct, its only around ~25ish. The upload speed in bits per second is 256. Either way you cut it the upload is still fairly slow, but unless your hosting...who cares...
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But your Comcast subscriber agreement prohibits you from hosting. If they find you, they'll terminate your service.
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exactly...so like i said, if you arent hosting...who cares...
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Funny how RCN's d/l speed was upped to 5 Mbps about two years ago at no additional cost. It is also useful to note that when Comcast upped the d/l speed last year it reduced the upload speed from ~35Kbps to 25Kbps without notice (not even in the fine print). On a related note, their basic cable package keeps changing/shrinking (channels moving to the digital = $$$ realm while cable prices keep increasing) Unless this is a free increase and they improve the u/l rate too, I'll pass.
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when they upgraded/downgraded, my comcast upload went from 35KB to 30KB.. the only way i would pay more would be for more upload bw, but it would have to be significant.. like up to 75KB or 100KB.. that would deserve another $120 a year..
i hope this fiber to premises really starts to spread..
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in a few years from now- wireless broadband will be the king,and cable and dsl hard line cables will be dead. i was in japan last month and their high speed cable was at 7.7Mbps. At 27 US dollars exchange.do you smell ......rip off!!
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