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Re: Any info on Maryland? Were there any reports posted in this forum confirming DOCSIS 3 availability in your county? If so, please provide a link. I add links to posts confirming availability. I have no other way of knowing what to add there.
Did you read the first post in this thread? Is there some way I can make that post more clear that we are asking members to provide evidence of DOCSIS 3 availability in their area. I can then link to the reports to recap them from that first post.
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1 edit | Where can I find out if DOCSIS 3 is available in my area? I read the first post and it is a bit overwhelming. I wasn't sure where to go to "ask" if DOCSIS 3 is available somewhere.
I found this thread (»[Speed] Ultra and Extreme tiers available in Frederick, MD yet?) and which is old and is my county. Someone replied in that thread and said to come over to this thread. So here I am.
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| Re: Any info on Maryland? When you log into your Comcast account, are the DOCSIS 3 tiers available for order? Can you call and order a DOCSIS 3 tier at your address? Have you asked at your local Comcast office if D3 tiers are available for order?
If you check your modem signal page and see multiple downstream channels, that is indication the local network has either been upgraded or is in the process of being upgraded. Even if this is happening or has happened, that doesn't mean Comcast is ready to install a D3 tier yet. You would have to contact them to see if D3 tiers can be ordered. If you see only one downstream channel, it's fairly certain D3 isn't available for you.
What tier are you paying for and what does shaperprobe tell you about your speed? Those two bits of information might help someone give you a good guess.
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Re: Where can I find out if DOCSIS 3 is available in my area? From the Comcast site: About DOCSIS 3
You could try this
I don't know if that still works, though.
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DOCSIS 3 Available in Frederick, MD Thanks! My bill says I have Performance with power boost. Comcast is offering me everything up to Extreme 105 when I enter my address. A speed test shows some great speeds (in my opinion).
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DOCSIS 3.0 Available in Branford/East Haven, CT I am now on Docsis 3.0 in the Branford/East Haven, CT region. |
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DOSCIS 3 Rollout Complete? Comcast 'Completes' Docsis 3.0 Rollout
January 5, 2012 | Jeff Baumgartner
Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) has wrapped up its initial deployment of Docsis 3.0, the platform cable operators are tapping into to deliver speed bursts of 100Mbit/s or more while also forming the foundation of an IP video platform.
The rollout is "completed," Comcast CFO and Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis told the audience at Citigroup investor's conference on Thursday in San Francisco. It's unclear if he meant that 100 percent of the MSO's footprint is now truly D3-ready, or if there are still some small pockets that haven't made the leap to wideband.
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) estimated last fall that U.S. cable operators would have D3 deployed to 77 percent of the nation's households by the end of 2011. Comcast alone passes 52.38 million homes and businesses. (See The State of Docsis 3.0.)
Comcast has rolled out D3 at a steady pace ever since it debuted wideband services in April 2008 in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., and its highest-end cable modem speed tiers currently tops out at 105Mbit/s downstream. Comcast has not revealed how many of its 17.81 million high-speed Internet customers subscribe to a D3 tier. Comcast also sells wideband data services to business customers. (See Comcast Enters the Wideband Era .)
While big speeds have grabbed most of the Docsis 3.0 headlines in recent years as MSOs grapple with fiber-to-the-home competition, the technology is also expected to help underpin cable's move to IP video. CableLabs , for example, has been working on ways to optimize D3 for video, including improvements in the way that IP multicast works in the wideband environment so one video stream can be received by multiple destinations -- akin to the way switched digital video (SDV) handles linear video streams in the QAM video world today. (See Docsis 3.0 Tackles Linear IP Video.)
It looks like most of Comcast's markets should have access to spectrum that can be applied toward Docsis 3.0 channel-bonding or toward capacity for more HDTV channels and video-on-demand streams. Angelakis said the deployment of Project Cavalry, Comcast's big analog reclamation initiative, is "pretty much complete." (See Comcast's $1B Bandwidth Plan .)
Comcast has already deployed millions of standard-definition Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA) devices to spur that project along, and evidence is mounting that Comcast is getting close to deploying a new class of DTA that can support hi-def video signals. (See Comcast HD-DTAs Reach the FCC.)
— Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Light Reading Cable
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kudos:1 | Interesting, I know they have done most of our county (Mendocino) here in NorCal, but from what I understand the work hasn't finished yet (ie.I have D3 in Redwood Valley, but they still have my Blast! Tier provisioned at 17/2, and I can't get any of the new Extreme Tiers yet).
"It's unclear if he meant that 100 percent of the MSO's footprint is now truly D3-ready, or if there are still some small pockets that haven't made the leap to wideband." That about sums it up. |
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There was a link to that article on BBR Thursday Links section yesterday and Karl Bode just published a front page article here ---> »Comcast Says DOCSIS 3.0 Upgrades Complete
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1 edit | DOCSIS 3 Available in Colchester, VT Four bonded downstream channels here in Burlington, VT. Still one upstream. |
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| Re: DOSCIS 3 Rollout Complete? That would indicate your area is at least working on upgrading the physical network, but doesn't tell us if DOCSIS tiers are available.
What do you see here ---> What products are available in your area?
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Performance @ 20/4
Blast @ 30/6
Shows Extreme 105 is available, but it's said that for the last six months, my downstream light turned blue just a couple days ago, at the same time they removed everything but the basic analog channels. |
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Re: Is the DOCSIS 3 rollout complete in your area? Post here. Still no docsis 3.0 in Santa Cruz, Ca.................Thanks Comcast................No evidence of it changing anytime soon. Even though they offer 105, but there is no channel bonding I bought the D3 modem over a year ago in hopes they would upgrade. |
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kudos:9 | said by Minicoop831: Even though they offer 105, but there is no channel bonding I bought the D3 modem over a year ago in hopes they would upgrade.
Hmmm.. FWIW, that speed would be impossible to deliver without multiple bonded forward carriers. |
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| I know it's funny huh, I have reset the modem multiple times. Last week the cable and internet went out I was hoping that they were upgrading but no I was wrong. I guess we will never see it |
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Santa Cruz, CA | I'm in the same boat - seems the Santa Cruz area is one of the last in the nation to get D3. Strange being how close we are to Silicon Valley and having a pretty educated high-tech population... Too bad there isn't any real competition - I'm sure that would help! |
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kudos:1 | said by dvlogic:I'm in the same boat - seems the Santa Cruz area is one of the last in the nation to get D3. Strange being how close we are to Silicon Valley and having a pretty educated high-tech population... Too bad there isn't any real competition - I'm sure that would help!
If we have D3 up here in Mendocino County, I can't see why they wouldn't have it in Santa Cruz, the only thing I can see getting in the way is the super NIMBY's you guys have in that area, I think only Berzerkley and Sebastapol are ahead in that game. You guys have more competition than we do here, and a lot more money, so that's definitely not it. |
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Still waiting here in Ocala Florida. I recieved a letter about five months ago stating that I needed to upgrade my MODEM to a DOCIS 3.0. Which I did but still only have DOCSIS 2.0.
We also only have a handfull of HD station and the migration to all digital is not yet compleated.
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