  IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| Rental modems only Most of the modems I see at Best Buy only support channel bonding on four channels. I am pretty sure you'll need 8 downstream channels to achieve this speed. Or maybe DOCSIS 4.0 is in the pipes.
I am sure Comcast is not going to allow customer owned modems on this tier.
I just upgraded my grandma's modem on Time Warner in Maine to DOCSIS 3.0 and the one they gave me (an Ubee EMTA/wireless gateway) is 8x4 channel bonding. TWC will not accept customer owned modems unless they are 8x4 as the Moto 6120/6121 is not on their approved modem list. | |
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 | | | Re: Rental modems only 305/65 mb and PR go together! LOL
There will be VERY few almost NO takers of this service tier, because it will be too expensive. I think this puffed stuffed shirt brass tack PR crap is ludicrous. | |
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| | | | Re: Rental modems only If this speed is offered in Jacksonville FL, I'll be one of the people on it. I'm on 105/20 now in a house with 6 computers, 2 tablets, and several connected consoles so I utilize my bandwidth to the full extent. The more the better. | |
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| Re: Rental modems only said by davidhoffman:There are new 16x4 and 24x4 modems in work. The chips to do that were announced a few weeks ago at the Cable Show. There is supposed to be the capability to go to 32x4 using a modification of those chips. Further in the future is 8 channel upstream bonding. »ipkonfig.com/intel-shows-1gbits-···and-chip. The speed Comcast is proposing to do will be accommodated by new modems.
My guess is that the current modem chips are NOT flashable to handle 32/8 channel bonding. Most, if not all docsis 3 modems have gigabit ethernet WAN. Perhaps they should put these chips on a swappable retrofit board so that the other modem hardware can be reused the way they did with some analog modems and computer equipment in the past. | |
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| Oh noes - the Ubee? (Seriously - they used to be AMBIT before the name-change to reflect their most prevalent product - the UBEE family of cable modems and EMTAs; they had so many problems that even here on DSLR comments about getting *stung* still abound. When I put my Moto SB-5120 on the shelf and went to the local Comcast office, I had two choices for a lease-only D3 cable modem - one of several Ubees or the ARRIS WBM-760A. (All were in fact, quite literally, fresh off the UPS truck - UPS had delivered them while I was in line. These were not used cable modems.) Ubee's rep is horrible - ARRIS's rep is excellent. And both ARRIS products we have (the ARRIS 422G EMTA on addition to the WBM-760A D3 cable modem) are excellent.) Don't get stung, my friend - in the future, avoid Ubee. | |
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| | Does comcast een have enough free channels? Does comcast even have enough free channels? Thats 8 bonded channels . Not included any they use for lower packages. | |
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| | wow..really!? Wow really Comcast?? I have your 20/4 package that I'm paying nearly $70 for and I can't even get an upgrade to this, hell my area isn't even pushed to DOSCIS 3.0 yet!!! I pay way too much for way too little here which needs to stop. | |
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| | what a rip off comcast price for 105mbps is allready about the price for 300mbps on verizon and its funny how they add 5mbps just to be faster all i got is 4megs and would be happy with 30mbps | |
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| | | hmmmmmm... Really? They add 5Mbps to the 300Mbps just to one up Verizon? Is that 5Mbps really going to make a noticeable difference? What can 305Mbps handle that 300Mbps cant (especially these days)? It would be funny if Verizon switched up and offered 500Mbps instead of 300Mbps..
Anyway Im perfectly fine with my 30Mbps... 50Mbps and you wont hear a peep from me for the next several years.. | |
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| | | | Re: hmmmmmm... As others have pointed out, what website serves content that fast?
It's like loading boxes on a conveyer belt. While the conveyer belt
may be able to move 305 boxes an hour, the person loading them
can probably do 25 an hour. You'll still only get 25 boxes an hour.
I'm on a 6mb connection (Coast Communications) and I don't
download large files. I can stream video, but I rarely do.
Bottom line is, I'd be paying for speed I'd never use. | |
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
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| Re: hmmmmmm... said by DeeplyShroud :As others have pointed out, what website serves content that fast?
It's like loading boxes on a conveyer belt. While the conveyer belt
may be able to move 305 boxes an hour, the person loading them
can probably do 25 an hour. You'll still only get 25 boxes an hour.
I'm on a 6mb connection (Coast Communications) and I don't
download large files. I can stream video, but I rarely do.
Bottom line is, I'd be paying for speed I'd never use.
You need to look at it from the perspective of multiple users. That is who the faster speeds tiers are pushed pushed at by Verizon. A family of 5 or 6 that has every online. You get enough bandwidth so each person has more than enough to do what they want. | |
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kg4yuv
join:2010-07-08
Crandall, GA | Hmm.. Meanwhile, EPB Fiber Optics has had symmetrical 1 Gbps service for nearly 2 years.
Go Muni Fiber. | |
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| | 305 Mbps For when 300 Mbps just isn't good enough...  | |
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| | | Re: 305 Mbps So, my car goes 130 mph - do I drive it that fast? The average home computer user will never use the speeds that either company touts. (at least not yet) There is a reason why Verizon is breaking up their union and why Verizon Wireless partnered with Comcast and other cable providers. Verizon Wireless is non-union and forward thinking there lies the strength in the company. Keep an eye on both. | |
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