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post #41 of 76
7/22/12 at 2:42am
What's ridiculous is that we're paying $100+ a month for speeds that are available elsewhere for $10.

You know what I want? I want to be able to buy into the infrastructure, pay the marginal expense of extra routers/fiber up front and let my monthly bill be the actual ongoing cost of electricity, maintenance, and peerage plus a flat $5 a month in profit for the ISP.
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post #42 of 76
7/22/12 at 3:56am
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I see how this will be great for big households, dorms, coffee shops, etc. Heck you can even share your wifi with your neighbor and still have enough bandwidth left.

Bandwidth is not the problem these days, traffic caps are. What good is a 305Mbps connection if you can only download 100 or 200gb in a month? It's only useful if it's unlimited, otherwise I fail to see the point with such high speed connections.
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post #43 of 76
7/22/12 at 4:04am
Cool, according to this, my 25 /4 will be upgraded to 50 / 8.

Doubled,

And my bill will go down 2-3$.

I love Comcast. They've always been good to me.

Still, most downloads max out around 2.0MB/s, because that extra .5Mb/s is speed boost tongue.gif

So I imagine my new download speeds will be 4.5Mbs

Still, a noticable improvement!
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post #44 of 76
7/22/12 at 4:11am
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Cool, according to this, my 25 /4 will be upgraded to 50 / 8.
Doubled,
And my bill will go down 2-3$.
I love Comcast. They've always been good to me.
Still, most downloads max out around 2.0MB/s, because that extra .5Mb/s is speed boost tongue.gif
So I imagine my new download speeds will be 4.5Mbs
Still, a noticable improvement!
Theres nothing in the source article about free upgrades
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post #45 of 76
7/22/12 at 5:52am
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Theres nothing in the source article about free upgrades

Ah, was reading another article in a tab and posted here:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r27246579-Speed-Northeast-speed-changes-coming.
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Comcast is changing their blast and extreme 50 tiers in the northeast only. Blast is going to 50 download and extreme 50 goes to 105 download. Extreme 105 goes away and customers get a price decrease. No mention of upload speeds. This will happen within 90 days. Notification being sent out to customers.
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7/22/12 at 9:09am
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Originally Posted by TranquilTempest View Post

What's ridiculous is that we're paying $100+ a month for speeds that are available elsewhere for $10.

You know what I want? I want to be able to buy into the infrastructure, pay the marginal expense of extra routers/fiber up front and let my monthly bill be the actual ongoing cost of electricity, maintenance, and peerage plus a flat $5 a month in profit for the ISP.

Exactly. But hey, when you're the only game in town, you charge as much as you want because people have to pay it.
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7/22/12 at 10:16am
Guys just so you know, there is no bandwidth cap right now.
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7/22/12 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by Mkilbride View Post

Cool, according to this, my 25 /4 will be upgraded to 50 / 8.
Doubled,
And my bill will go down 2-3$.
I love Comcast. They've always been good to me.
Still, most downloads max out around 2.0MB/s, because that extra .5Mb/s is speed boost tongue.gif
So I imagine my new download speeds will be 4.5Mbs
Still, a noticable improvement!

Same, looking forward to it.
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7/22/12 at 11:10am
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Originally Posted by eternal7trance View Post

Guys just so you know, there is no bandwidth cap right now.

This is right. They're getting the system in place at the moment on their website, where you can see real time your data usage, but right now it is uncapped.

I find it funny you need to use data to get to the website to view your data usage.
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7/22/12 at 11:45am
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This is right. They're getting the system in place at the moment on their website, where you can see real time your data usage, but right now it is uncapped.
I find it funny you need to use data to get to the website to view your data usage.

Is this supposed to be a company wide thing or is it regional? I haven't heard anything from Comcast about this yet.
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