ropeguru
Premium
join:2001-01-25
Bridgeport, WV
clubs: |  And the others....
Are still lagging behind, not listening, and giving us crap like Powerboost. Which my area STILL does not have.
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Vamp
5c077
Premium
join:2003-01-28
MD
 ·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | Caps... Impossible upstream..
It should be noted that these upstream (and downstream) speeds can't be heavily used, they are just not supported by the network. It would only take about 5-6 people to max out the entire node.
If it works, it works on a system that has a cap threshold (cap on heavy use) or that has very few heavy users (doubtful).
PS. I hope FIOS responds with 50/10  |
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Jafo232
You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.
Premium
join:2002-10-17
Boonville, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to ropeguru
Re: And the others....
This is great. I wish they would have started this last night when I was uploading 1.7 GB of wedding pics.
Yet another reason why when it comes to speed, CV owns the residential market.
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mbernste
Boosted
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-30
Piscataway, NJ
·Comcast
·Optimum Online
|  Competition is great
Cablevision is doing this in response to the competition they are facing with FiOS (especially on Long Island). All I can say is when the monopoly is broken, the consumer wins.
Now if they can only give us more free VOD like TW, Comcast, and VZ does, it would be great! |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| Dont look a gifted horse in the mouth
As the title says, I won't argue with anything more for FREE...
(i won't get into the fact that it's taking them 2+ weeks to setup my new apartment with cable....)
BUT, i would be JUST as happy if they could even provide a steady 5/2. If they told me "look, you have 30/5 now - you can either keep that, or get a constant 5/2 burstable to 10/2.5" i would do it. Either way, not bad for free! |
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subman87
Another day in the Brentwood
join:2000-11-24
Harrison, NY | reply to Vamp
Re: Caps... Impossible upstream..
50/10 would be nice.......... |
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MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY
clubs: 
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said by Vamp  :It should be noted that these upstream (and downstream) speeds can't be heavily used while i agree with you regarding upstream, downstream is unrestricted.
there are no reports of users getting any caps or warning for downloading too much.
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ExecPro
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Long Beach, NY | Speeds
I don't know about everyone else's experiences, but since they started offering 'faster speeds' my speeds have actually declined. Anyone else experiencing this? |
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Bobcat
Premium
join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | What users want
I don't want faster speeds, I want lower prices! Which is why I dropped Cablevision's overpriced $45 service for Verizon's $30 DSL. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Headline Question
Why is "Boosts" in single quotes? From what the summary states, OOL is actually increasing speeds... or is this some kind of trick? 
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Raptor
Not a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
London, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
 ·Bell Sympatico
| Getting left in the dust
These high density areas (generally, but not always) are leaving the average suburban areas in the dust. (I'm starting to feel like rural folks  ) While I understand it's better in terms of investment for a corp., it sucks for me!
But then again I don't even have a whiff of all these speeds north of the border in Ontario. And Optimax (16/1) for Bell and Elite (18/1) for Rogers doesn't count, since they're $100/mo uber plans (capped at 100GB I might add).
So apparently I need to move southeast to NY, or north to Quebec - which has 20/1 Videotron, although that's capped too.
Consider yourselves lucky those of you in line for Fios/and other smoking fast connections.
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phantom6294
join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
·Comcast
| reply to pnh102
Re: Headline Question
I'm no English Grammar expert... but I think double quotes are used when actually quoting something/someone. In this case, I think the headline is playing off the word Boost since CV calls the 30/5 service OOL Boost; thus the single quotes.
Just my theory... and we all know about theories. |
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HyPeRbAnD
join:2006-01-07
Stow, MA | Great now we see the start of higher upstream speed!
Well it's finally starting... |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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·Comcast
| reply to ropeguru
Re: And the others....
said by ropeguru :Are still lagging behind, not listening, and giving us crap like Powerboost. Which my area STILL does not have. Other cable companies in Verizon Fios areas will be doing what OOL is doing when the competition comes to their areas. When they start losing customers, the new speeds will come.
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sh0ckie
join:2002-07-10
Bronx, NY
| reply to MxxCon
Re: Caps... Impossible upstream..
While it's great to see CV respond to competition from VZ by raising its speed, it's useless if their backend can't handle the load. I'm not the only OOL user who has seen the quality of the service degrade in the past few months. Speeds are far more erratic than they used to be, even during off-peak hours. |
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AnnaS8
join:2005-05-26
Annapolis, MD
| reply to HyPeRbAnD
Re: Great now we see the start of higher upstream speed!
My understanding is that this can't really be done without really straining the network. CV must really be trying to pull this out of their arse. Until Docsis 3.0 is out they really can't hang with FIOS.
Besides I thought CV was already traffic shaping. A friend of mine says it takes him forever to upload even small files. He says it is fine for a few minutes then drops down to a crawl. |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
| reply to sh0ckie
Re: Caps... Impossible upstream..
Hopefully they have a really clean ingress free return path capable of reliably using 64QAM modulation in the upstream on 6 MHz channels. If that's the case, I have to say KUDOS to Cablevision for maintaining such a clean plant. If not, we'll expect to see those people with borderline levels get knocked off as they can't reliably transmit upstream. |
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HyPeRbAnD
join:2006-01-07
Stow, MA | reply to AnnaS8
Re: Great now we see the start of higher upstream speed!
DOCSIS 2 will support this. It uses 64QAM 6.4mhz wide carrier which will do 30Mbps vs DOCSIS1.1 16qam 3.2mhz (10Mbps). |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: And the others....
said by TKJunkMail :said by ropeguru :Are still lagging behind, not listening, and giving us crap like Powerboost. Which my area STILL does not have. Other cable companies in Verizon Fios areas will be doing what OOL is doing when the competition comes to their areas. When they start losing customers, the new speeds will come. Not if they are Time Warner/Road Runner who still has 384 up speeds (even in the parts of NYC that are not serviced by Cablevision [NYC is split between CV and TW] where they compete with Verizon FIOS). |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| how many fans out there?
Just how many of you pay $15 more for boost?
It seems there are diminishing returns (without further upgrades) for the upstream, no?
A real-world loss of 2.4mbit is not so hot for an extra $15 a month... but being that many out-region speed tests, your isp caps upstream by increasing percentages.. it would be doubtful that that upstream is any better than Verizon's 5mbit, and likely worse... I get 39xx-44xx upstream local, and about half (or less) on the outer bands of speed tests (400-700kbit to west coast from east coast)-- its doubtful cablevision beats that..
If so, PROVE IT! |
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