Sony Style Comcast Labs opens to show off future of high-speed internet

Eager to see what life's like on a Sony VAIO hitting speeds in excess of 160Mbps? Head on over to the City of Brotherly Love, as that's where a flashy new retail location is opening up to simultaneously showcase the future of high-speed internet and Sony gear. The Sony Style Comcast Labs facility will open its doors to the public tomorrow in Philadelphia's Comcast Center, where onlookers will be able to check out the power of DOCSIS 3.0 as well as some applications and platforms being developed to take advantage of all that speed. As far as we can tell, this co-branded location is nothing more than a showcase of current and future products for both firms, though we fully anticipate that reps will be on hand to take orders of whatever you fall for while browsing around. Anyone down for checking it out?

Sony Style Comcast Labs opens to show off future of high-speed internet

[Pusta Posted Mar 16th 2009 3:53PM]

Two overpriced companies in one location, man, that is convenient!

I think I'll skip this store....

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 4:03PM]

Time warner cable in souther california has been terribly slow, Im downloading at 300k/b when the speed should be 6M,

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 7:13PM]

Actually the max that you can get from that is 750KBps. The stated speed is in Kilobits, not in Kilobytes (as a computer reads it).

As for this post, I would agree with the first comment. Plus they shred any torrent connection, so any hopes of getting that new Linux distro at a decent speed is near zero.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 8:14PM]

I'll bet you still can't purchase a Comcast set-top-box at this place.

[Pusta Posted Mar 16th 2009 7:09PM]

What are you talking about? You can buy a Comcast box for the low price of $10/month for the rest of your life.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 6:34AM]

160Mbps - let's see, what would really impress a typical customer if you wanted to show off what that sort of bandwidth can do? I know - show how fast it is to download an HD torrent! Ehhh - on the other hand...