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| [Speed] Comcast Future speed ANY IDEAS ? Hi there I was wondering if anyone over here have any insider or any general idea if Comcast is going to be shaking up speeds for 2012 or no and if yes what would they be around ? Will they get higher speed tier than extreme 105mbps this year or no ? |
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| I doubt it. I'm sure they will try to make 105 available in more markets, but beyond that I don't see them doing anything drastic. |
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| reply to greg925
So I guess they not going to try to match with Verizon fios 150/35 ? |
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| Maybe with upstream bonding they might up some tiers upload speeds, I don't know it's possible though |
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said by greg925:So I guess they not going to try to match with Verizon fios 150/35 ?
Not all that likely at this point, but it will get increasingly feasible as upstream bonding gets rolled out. |
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since Comcast is adding more upload channels, Does that mean that upload speed might be same as download speed in future ? |
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| reply to greg925
Maybe for the lower end tiers, but not for the higher speed tiers. DOCSIS is and probably always will be an asymmetrical system that favors the downstream bandwidth. A 64QAM upstream channel can't compete with a 256QAM downstream channel, especially when there's 8 downstreams bonded and only two 64QAM upstreams + 1 16QAM channel. |
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| reply to greg925
Ah, Okay Thank you ! for all that information  Hopefully we will see far better speeds in near future |
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 telcodad
join:2011-09-16
Lincroft, NJ
kudos:2 | reply to greg925
Don't know if Comcast has any plans to roll out a speed tier faster than Extreme 105/20 this year, but Videotron, a Canadian cable company, just announced a new 200/30 tier for the Québec City area, starting in May: Videotron launches 200 Mbps Internet access in Québec City Press Release - March 15, 2012 » corpo.videotron.com/site/press-r···ease/623"Montréal, March 15, 2012 – Videotron is lengthening its lead as the top Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Québec by announcing the launch of Internet access service with download speeds of up to 200 Mbps and upload speeds of 30 Mbps in the Québec City area in May 2012, in time for moving season. Videotron, Québec’s telecommunications leader, will therefore remain the fastest access provider in the market. Since 2009, Videotron has been the only ISP to offer service at speeds of more than 50 Mbps across its service area in Québec, which covers nearly 3 million households." : "Impressive achievements Videotron’s technological leadership is built on a host of technological advances and developments in areas including Internet service. In 2010, Videotron became the first ISP in Canada to introduce 120 Mbps Internet access, based on the DOCSIS 3.0 standard. Videotron has ample room to grow and develop technologically as it will be able to leverage the potential of its hybrid fibre coax network to continue offering its customers ever more advanced services. For example, speeds of 1000 Mbps, or one Gigabit per second, were achieved last year in a US lab on a network comparable to Videotron’s." |
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telcodad
join:2011-09-16
Lincroft, NJ
kudos:2 | Apparently, the announcement by Videotron was to one-up an earlier announcement by their Verizon-like competitor, Bell Canada, of its FiOS-like "Bell Fibe" FTTH service in Québec City, that "only" offers speeds of up to 175 Mbps down and up to 30 Mbps up:
Bell Canada lights up FTTH service in Quebec City
FierceTelecom - March 14, 2012
»www.fiercetelecom.com/story/bell···12-03-14 |
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 Dee
@comcast.net | reply to greg925
From what I've read, it is unlikely that they will up it unless there is a competitive reason to do so.
In Europe (and possibly Canada), the faster speeds are being driven by regulators rather than a market-based NEED. |
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