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Re: availabale, but pricy It looks like DOCSIS 3.0 has been available through Comcast in my area for a while now. However, I'm not getting the 50/20 service that they cap out on. I'm getting 30/7 as the standard residential service here. I can't justify the cost increase to go from 30/7 up to the "Extreme 50" 50/20 package. Note, however, that I didn't have to pay anything over the standard rate to get the 30/7 package. It's well under 100/mo. with cable tv bundled. (Yeah, welcome to Xfinity I'm playing with it now to see how it looks.)
With the standard Comcast Residential cable for my area I'm getting consistent ~28.9 Mbps down and ~2.9 Mbps up with pings at 24 ms (3ms jitter) to the local datacenter (about 25 miles away) I got an upload of just over 6 Mbps once a few months ago but I haven't topped 3 since then. Packetloss is nonexistent for me unless there is some major catastrophe happening. These speeds jive with the "Ultra" package they advertise as only available in the DOCSIS 3.0 areas. Apparently I got it standard.
As far as pings go, every testing location in the continental US is giving me pings under 50 ms (if I stay within my half of the continental US) and under 3ms jitter. If I stretch out to the opposite half of the continental US Jitter and up/down speeds remain the same but the pings increase to just a hair under 90ms at maximum. |
