Charter launching 60Mbps broadband, asks "FiOS what?"

Still waiting for Verizon's FiOS to come and light up your neighborhood with blistering download speeds? Now you have something even faster to wait for, with Charter Communications announcing it is launching a 60Mbps broadband service, utilizing DOCSIS 3.0 to fit more bits in the same pipes -- not quite the 160Mbps Comcast predicted, but we'll take it. What the company isn't announcing is when people will be able to tap into this or how much they'll pay for the privilege, but hopefully it'll be a little less than the $140 Verizon is charging.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 4:22PM]

My friend that has charter in WI pays $80 or so for his 10mb connection, so based off of that $140 would be cheap compared to the $300 or so they will probably charge...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 4:23PM]

You can get the 50 Mbps FIOS speeds at a lot less than $140/month... in competitive areas. So bring on more competition, Charter!

[tlogank Posted Jan 29th 2009 4:28PM]

I get Charter's 16MB internet for $34.99. It's all about the CSR and what they feel like.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 5:26PM]

I'll believe it when I see it, and a speed test proving it.

And what is the upload speed, 1Mbps?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 5:34PM]

At those speeds you could hit your monthly cap in a couple of hours.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2009 12:09AM]

Good thing Charter has no monthly caps.

[bushi Posted Jan 30th 2009 12:29AM]

That is so great, you could your pathetic and anoying cap in no time flat... sigh.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 8:35PM]

Just gotta give props to the title...lol :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 9:27PM]

I know its coming to the Atlanta area here soon according to a local rep. If memory serves price was going to be in the $140 - $150 range.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2009 11:23PM]

60Mbps... haha. I live in Japan and standard internet speeds are 100Mbps for as cheap as $40 a month. My buddy pays around $50 for 1,000Mbps. Take a hard drive over to his place and download from newsgroups at over 5 MB/s

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 12:50AM]

And what does he do with the other 960 Mbps?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2009 12:17PM]

Charter may not have "shut-off" caps per se, but a few months back when I was using usenet after about three days straight of self throttled downloads the speeds would drop off for a couple of days.