Alright Minneapolis, you've
had your fun. Now it's time for another swath of Comcast markets to indulge in the lavish joys that only
DOCSIS 3.0 can provide. For those unaware, the aforesaid technology enables 50Mbps internet to be delivered over the cable company's infrastructure, which brings it up to speed (ahem) with offerings by fiber-based carriers
Verizon and
AT&T. In the next few weeks, the DOCSIS 3.0-based "Extreme 50" option will bring 50Mbps down / 5Mbps up to subscribers in parts of New England, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Better still, the company announced its intentions to bring the $139.95 per month service to ten other big markets where it will reach "about 10 million homes and businesses in the next few months." Oh, and if that's just too much intarwebz for you to handle, an "Ultra" 22Mbps downstream service will be available for $62.95 per month.
[Via
Reuters, image courtesy of
TheRedWoodMotel]
posted Oct 22nd 2008 4:56PM
Your up and down stats are backwards.
That's all well and good, but if the service is still capped at 250GB/month, all it does is help me hit the ceiling faster.
Well of course, why have your service cut off for the last week of the month when you can have it cut off 2 weeks earlier? lol
Let’s take a step back for a second. 250 GB/month is a very large amount of data. I won’t repeat the fact that far fewer than 1% of our customers use more than that. Oops. Sorry. Now, to hit that threshold you’d have to download more than 60,000 4 Mb songs in a month. On iTunes, that would cost about $60,000. A month. And how long would it take for you to listen to that many hours of music? 60,000 songs X 4 minutes/song that’s the equivalent of 4,000 hours of music per month. There are only 720 hours in a typical 30 day month. So, that’s almost half a year of music to listen to 24 hours a day for 30 days a month. And, by the way, if you keep going along this tack, you’d spend $720,000 a year.
LOL @ the picture used.
ok i dont get comcasts thinking on this one,if there capping people now which i am sadly a subscriber seeing i cant get anything else what is the purpose of getting this...i thought they were having network issues but i guess there not if there bumping up speed
2nd half of 2009?
plastic-fantastic-comcast needs less talk/pre-announcements and a lot
more timely releases
less talk, more action, huh?
while all the cable companies have their problems,
plastic-fantastic-comcast is the most expensive and has the worst
support/problem resolution
Who cares about the extra speed, it's not going to make a whole helluva lot of difference unless your downloading pirated content. Hey Comcast, how bout getting your A$$es in gear and adding real HD CHANNELS...not 'choices'
Will DOCSIS 3.0 customers also get higher bandwidth HD?
It's just another way for Comcast to delay doing any _real_ upgrading to its infrastructure. DOCSIS 3.0 coupled with their new network "management" policy will probably give em several more years of putting off any FTTH implementation. Sad.
Come on Verizon, lay that fiber optic cable. Give me a a competitor to the legal monopoly that is Comcast.
I have to echo what TJ said. I see no reason at all to pay extra for 22 Mbps with the same 250 GB cap in place. As it is, I get about 4.16 Mbps from Comcast. In download capacity alone, that would equate to 1.87 GB per hour. For a 30 day month, the service I pay for should allow for a total download of 1350 GB. So their cap is restricting me to less than 20% of my "unlimited" internet access. Bumping my speed to 22 Mbps drops my usage to about 3.3% of my "unlimited" internet access.
Do very very few people download that much ? Indeed. I am a big Dead fan, so in addition to the occasional TV show, movie, and music downloads, I also download - completely legal I might add - Grateful Dead concerts in FLAC or SHN format. Since Comcast instituted their cap, I am using a network meter and over the last 10 days I'm averaging about 5 GB per day (up and down - most stuff I get over BT).
I don't know that there is a point here, but if your network can support 22 Mbps on the one hand, then there is really no reason to be restricting total network traffic to 250 GB on the other hand.
Basically this all just supports the idea that Comcast is simply clueless when it comes to customer service. It's like the water company putting in new huge pipes and saying they can now deliver 1000 gallons per minute to every household. Oh, but each household is still limited to 750 gallons per day.