| 12Mbps/2Mbps for $42.95 best for most users .... ...even those who do a lot of video streaming. The ones who could benefit from the higher Docsis 3 tiers will be people who are working from home and constantly uploading engineering drawings or other very large files frequently to their place of work or to vendors they are under contract to.
Another group would be those who need to backup critical data online daily and need the higher upload speeds to accomplish that in some limited timeframe.
But unless you have a true BUSINESS service with a SLA with Comcast( and these plans aren't that, even the D3 speed plans), then you would probably run up against the 250GB cap even at the lower tiered offerings. So ultimately, I don't know many who would benefit from the higher tiers at the declared cap level of 250GB/month.
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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Albany, CA | the caps prompted me to downgrade my comcast speed to their lowest tier (comcast's unreliability prompted me to leave).
based on what i was doing as a comcast customer, i'd imagine the same saavy folks who wold be willing to fork out the cash for the higher tiers are the same folks who object to caps (the power user). imo comcast shot themselves in the foot by implementing caps before they rolled out the faster teirs. they should have done it thr other way around. |
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@comcast.net | but the cap is really high 250gb. you would have to watch stream movies 8 hour a day everyday of the month to reach the cap. |
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but the cap is really high 250gb. you would have to watch stream movies 8 hour a day everyday of the month to reach the cap.
I agree, if that is what your major activity is. But if you are a user backing up gigabytes of files nightly to an online server or are an engineer working from home, then none of these plans are appropriate. You really need a business SLA agreement, whether that is from Comcast or from a telco if Comcast won't or can't provide a business service to your residence.
And Comcast has 2 levels of business customers.
One is just people working from home(heavy but not huge bandwidth needs) or maybe a restaurant or Real Estate office looking to provide internet access with a higher grade of customer support. And here is some info on that:
»www.comcast.com/corporate/busine···net.html
The second is for real big data needs and for this type of service there are SLAs, dedicated customer support and account managers, and access that is typically NOT a coax connection off of a typical residential node. Access is often FTTP and is ethernet based as well. See here for the REAL business services that Comcast offers:
»www.comcast.com/corporate/busine···ult.html
Especially, the following 2 offerings:
»www.comcast.com/Corporate/Busine···net.html
»www.comcast.com/corporate/busine···ine.html
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badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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Albany, CA | reply to jt4
I agree 250gb is fine....for a single user. For a household, not so much. |
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wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to fAcEtIOUs
I still do not find anywhere that this first example is constructed to fit a home worker. They do not discuss bandwidth levels at all. This is catered to a small business.
What specifically in the business SLA defines heavy, but not huge bandwidth usage?
If Comcast does not provide business service to a home, is that not a sign that this is NOT, in fact, designed for a home worker at all, but for a small business?
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