cooey
join:2009-04-08
Stratford, CT | [OOL] New Optimum Online Ultra Beta* as of 4/7/09 This is per an internal comm. working at cablevision.
Starting Tuesday, April 7th 2009 Cablevision will begin a beta trial of our new Ultra Internet product.
The old Ultra of 50/50 will still be available and unchanged. New Ultra beta will be using DOCSIS 3.0
Ultra speeds are 101 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload.
The price is $289.95 per month + you must have OOL.
Ultra modems are data only. If the customer has Ultra and OV they will have at least two modems possibly more depending on the number of OV lines they have.
Ultra is available to both business and residential customers.
Ultra customers have the same features as BOOST (15 e-mails, Hostway etc.) |
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 JeffreyWilpon please sell the MetsPremium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
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1 edit | said by cooey :
Ultra speeds are 101 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload.
The price is $289.95 per month + you must have OOL.
Is that price a typo? |
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JeffreyWilpon please sell the MetsPremium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
kudos:3 Reviews:
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| Well, then that product is not for me. May be for a business, but I can't see a residential user shelling out $300/month, even for those speeds.
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cooey
join:2009-04-08
Stratford, CT | reply to Jeffrey
Not a typo, $199.95 if I'm not mistaken for the original Ultra which is 50/50 Mbps and the new beta being 101/15 Mbps for $289.95. Being that it is beta and costing a lot for now I'm sure only businesses that would need that throughput or the real nuts that are eager to test for us can actually afford that monthly would go for it. If anyone was wondering about only being 15ul is due to beta, they are testing max DL throughput and they will most likely have a more balanced final DL/UL once implemented. |
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 dbmavenThere's no shortagePremium,Mod
join:1999-10-26
Sty in Sky
kudos:2 | Based on those speeds, it almost looks like bonding 3 Boost channels together.... |
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 blohner
join:2002-06-26
Cortlandt Manor, NY | reply to cooey
IMHO That price is not going to work. If you look at what FIOS 50/20 costs in OOL territory ($94.95 for me) I can't imagine anyone paying 3x as much for 101/15....
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 ShamayimI already have a Messiah.Premium
join:2002-09-23
1 edit | reply to cooey
I've never understood the idea of charging a test market for an experimental service, whether it be NARAD or this.
If customers work to troubleshoot a beta service for OOL, the company should be paying them.
Or, since it's really a symbiotic relationship, equalizing it out and charging them nothing at all.
Which symbiotic relationship, by the way, I would be most happy to enter into! 
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cooey
join:2009-04-08
Stratford, CT | said by Shamayim:I've never understood the idea of charging a test market for an experimental service, whether it be NARAD or this. If customers work to troubleshoot a beta service for OOL the company should be paying them! Or, since it's really a symbiotic relationship, equalizing it out and charging them nothing at all. Which symbiotic relationship, by the way, I would be most happy to enter into! Yeah I hear you there, that is how all beta should be, just like most if not all software beta. I guess they must feel confident enough in the stability that it should be charged at this point(the initial beta was already tested by an internal team probably for free- bleh). Though if you ask me I would love to test as well, though I do have company perks, Testing Ultra free of charge is not on that list  |
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Looks like a great option if you are a business.
I wonder if there is a SLA or any sort of guarantee of anything? I guess they'd tell you to go to Lightpath if you needed something like that. |
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 MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY | reply to cooey
did CV ever actually offer OOL Ultra beyond 3 test people? |
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4
2 edits | reply to cooey
Wow. Great speeds... If only I had the money.
What's the max upload on DOCSIS3?
Edit: You say the old Ultra is still available (50/50), I'm guessing that's NARAD only?
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Maybe they will be changing boost to something like 50/10 ? |
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 bcroninPremium
join:2004-03-27
Hyde Park, NY | As a day-1 (residential) Boost customer who can always use more speed, I have to say that this is disappointing. Hopefully CV has a DOCSIS 3.0-based residential service in the works for not THAT much more. VZ has recently appeared in my neighborhood running fiber (which frankly you could have knocked me over with a feather when I noticed, since I had not even considered it possible they'd show up here for several years to come). If I end up with a higher-than-Boost speed option for a reasonable premium from VZ, I may well be tempted to switch back (but really, I'd rather not, so c'mon, willya, get real with the pricing). |
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Hopefully they'll bump up the current Boost speeds at no extra charge. |
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JeffreyWilpon please sell the MetsPremium
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Long Island
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| said by Anaerobic:Hopefully they'll bump up the current Boost speeds at no extra charge. That would be nice. One of these days, I'm going to use the Optonline Direct forum here to see if I can get my account issue corrected; something in their system (website), and their live chat techs, and their phone techs makes it such that I cannot seem to order Boost. Extremely frustrating.
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 Morbid AngelBitten By The WolfPremium
join:2002-12-12
Bethpage, NY
1 edit | reply to cooey
Why would they make the uploads slower? That makes zero sense to me. Like blohner
said, the FIOS deal is much better. I would take a 50/20 for $95 vs 101/15. WIth my boost right now for the past 6 months I am unable to get over 15 on my download. The uploads is fine at 5.2. |
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Ack! $289.95 a month is too much. Considering I have two modems with boost already for about $115~ a month. I'd swallow going to a single modem for maybe no more than $199~ a month for a faster speed like 50/20. But even then $199 is too much for that speed. (50/50 maybe?) Maybe boost will get a speed bump and I'll just stick with that at those prices.
I can't wait to hear some official news. |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | reply to Morbid Angel
said by Morbid Angel:Why would they make the uploads slower? That makes zero sense to me. I believe thats because NARAD supported much faster uploads (couple hundred mbps?). I think DOCSIS3 is still limited to around DOCSIS2 upload speeds.
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to Anaerobic
said by Anaerobic:Hopefully they'll bump up the current Boost speeds at no extra charge. I'd be happy if they first gave me back the 5+ Upload speed I have before they did a node split on Dec3 and in the process throttled my upload speeds to 2.6Mbs. |
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