said by nasadude :

sorry dude, no new "products" (like increased b/w?) for a while:

"Frankly, we have plenty of capacity right now, and we will have plenty of capacity, in our opinion, for the next six to 12 months, given the available products," Roberts said.

sure sounds like "no speed upgrades" to me.

said by nasadude :

sorry dude, no new "products" (like increased b/w?) for a while:

"Frankly, we have plenty of capacity right now, and we will have plenty of capacity, in our opinion, for the next six to 12 months, given the available products," Roberts said.

sure sounds like "no speed upgrades" to me.

said by syslock :

They are already testing some cities here in MI at 100% digital. No more analog TV.

said by DreamWraith :

if they switch to full digital only broadcasts, i would imagine they would provide the *basic* boxes free of charge.

something like this:

»broadband.motorola.com/consumers···ault.asp

said by syslock :

From what I have read in the local media, 60% of Comcast's bandwidth on the coax is the Analog TV sig. Once they dump analog and make everyone get a box for TV, they will have plenty of whatever to mess with. They are already testing some cities here in MI at 100% digital. No more analog TV.

said by yeah right :

all i know is in my area its a 750 plant and there pusing it far beyond that point. all our amps are only at 750 and there running them around 780-790 siganls drop hard and they consistantly add hd channels trying to keep up with dish, but in doing so we have many compression issues that no one seams to know how to fix. micro blocking and tiling that still has color in them with smugdes then the picture changes and its gone form not enough BANDWIDTH in that 256 qam channel cause theres to many channels in it and there rate shaping, and thats only in our digi line up. must be talking about 860 systems or he has no i idea whats really going on with his company.

said by yeah right :

all i know is in my area its a 750 plant and there pusing it far beyond that point. all our amps are only at 750 and there running them around 780-790 siganls drop hard and they consistantly add hd channels trying to keep up with dish, but in doing so we have many compression issues that no one seams to know how to fix. micro blocking and tiling that still has color in them with smugdes then the picture changes and its gone form not enough BANDWIDTH in that 256 qam channel cause theres to many channels in it and there rate shaping, and thats only in our digi line up. must be talking about 860 systems or he has no i idea whats really going on with his company.

said by JoeyDee :

Great. Typical forward thinking American corporation. "We'll be good for a few months or a year"

said by dv122 :

I dumped Comcrap because there full of s***. COMCAST is the worst broadband service i've ever had

said by imrf :

Yet, ironically, you posted from a Comcast account. :uhh:

.... i have both Comcrap hsi & A T&T yahoo dsl

said by rob2006 :

i stick with bellsouth i am paying for 3.0 mbps and getting 7 mbps down and 676 kbps up, and i have no limit or cap like cable.