dadkins
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Hercules, CA
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| Perhaps in some areas...
... but in others there seems to be an abundance of available bandwidth.
Read up on PowerBoost, then do a search here(in Comcast HSI) for PermaBoost. 
Instead of getting the first few MB at wild speeds and then tapering back to rated service line speed, some of us are seeing wild downloads for entire multi-hundred(thousand?) MB downloads. 
The main problem seems to be finding sources to utilize these speeds.
Of course, YMMV.
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pokesph
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1 edit | said by dadkins  :... but in others there seems to be an abundance of available bandwidth. Read up on PowerBoost, then do a search here(in Comcast HSI) for PermaBoost. Instead of getting the first few MB at wild speeds and then tapering back to rated service line speed, some of us are seeing wild downloads for entire multi-hundred(thousand?) MB downloads. The main problem seems to be finding sources to utilize these speeds. Of course, YMMV. My Milage DOES Indeed Vary.. no *Boost here at all. Can't wait for DOCSIS 3 to arrive.
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The sweet spot in infrastructure upgrades for cable may be in FTTC. They already are using fiber extensively to sub developments and other housing groupings. They could use their existing rights of way to upgrade to the curb without huge investments. And then coax from the curb or pole to inside the house since that connection is already there. That combination along with Docsis-3 should keep them in the game for many years yet.
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| reply to pokesph
That sucks!
It's not all roses though... I only know of a couple places that can push the killer speeds. 
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sivran
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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| reply to dadkins
Bingo. They're both right! It just depends on where you look.
As for my area, we've been traded to TW/RR and I'm actually sad to see Comcast go. However, with all the cable ISPs that've come through here, I've always gotten my full provisioned speed. Never called a single one of em on slow throughput. No bandwidth crunch here! (yet. Should be upgraded to 7 or even 10 Mbps soon. We'll see how that goes.)
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Greer, SC
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said by dadkins :That sucks! It's not all roses though... I only know of a couple places that can push the killer speeds. Too true!
I was one of the first to get the 10M/1M speed increase with Charter cable at the beginning of Sept. 2006. it was absolutely killer too, everything they promised. By November I started to first see latency issues, speeds were still good for the most part but it would take a minute to access most web pages. By December we started to see speed degration to the point where I switched back to their 3M/256K service. High speed cable works well till it starts getting loaded, but with cable that is the nature of the beast.
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