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join:2006-08-24
Schenectady, NY | To the node? Or to your house? No doubt DOCSIS will provide a great improvement, but aren't the houses per node way too high to seriously compete with FTTH? | |
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@charter.com
| Re: To the node? said by JackBauer  :... but aren't the houses per node way too high to seriously compete with FTTH? Nope | |
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join:2004-03-19
Here | They'll have to do a lot of node splits I imagine to rol out DOCSIS 3.0 | |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Re: To the node? So the plan is to give people these speeds so they can hit their "Bandwidth Hog" Cap in 1 day and then get banned from the service for life?
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join:2006-03-01
Perris, CA | Re: To the node? So the plan is to give people these speeds so they can hit their "Bandwidth Hog" Cap in 1 day and then get banned from the service for life?
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220, 221, Whatever It Takes.
Premium
join:2000-11-08
Mechanicsburg, PA | Re: To the node? how else would they free up all the bandwidth for the newer non bandwidth hogs?
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join:2002-02-26
South Jordan, UT | Woot! Excatly what I was thinking! | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now said by LiamJunket :Those kinds of speeds(100 mbps and up) to customers will be technically feasible in a year or two from US cable companies. But to make them widely available, infrastructure would have to be vastly updated, with numerous node splits in every neighborhood across the companies footprint. And that involves spending a great deal of money. Don't expect these speeds in most areas for up to 10yrs away. Who knows maybe in 10 years people will need 100 Mbps. To be honest( and I'm a more speed the better guy ) who really needs 100 Mbps? Unless you're trying to download a bunch of blu-ray dvds. To stream something in 1080p would only take 16-20 Mbps. How many sites are going to do that? | |
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Obliteration
Premium
join:2005-09-18
Somewhere
| Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now said by BF69 :said by LiamJunket :Those kinds of speeds(100 mbps and up) to customers will be technically feasible in a year or two from US cable companies. But to make them widely available, infrastructure would have to be vastly updated, with numerous node splits in every neighborhood across the companies footprint. And that involves spending a great deal of money. Don't expect these speeds in most areas for up to 10yrs away. Who knows maybe in 10 years people will need 100 Mbps. To be honest( and I'm a more speed the better guy ) who really needs 100 Mbps? Unless you're trying to download a bunch of blu-ray dvds. To stream something in 1080p would only take 16-20 Mbps. How many sites are going to do that? No, nobody really needs the 100Mbps at the moment but we currently could use speeds around 20Mbps down and more upload. | |
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a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Corona, NY | Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now U must upload a heck of a lot of porn, man. | |
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join:2007-04-06
Denver, CO | said by BF69 :
who really needs 100 Mbps?
said by William Henry Gates III :
640K ought to be enough for anybody
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join:2001-03-27
Lawrence, KS | Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now My thoughts exactly. Everybody who was using a 56k modem (if that) 10 years ago, raise your hand... | |
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Elcabong
Cuba SI, Castro NO
join:2000-03-09
Philadelphia, PA | Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now (raises hand) | |
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join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
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| Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now 100mbps widely dispersed to the population would allow you to do all the things on the internet that you just can't do now. Multiple HD streams to multiple PC's in single households, Centralized data storage, and application loading, truly integrated communications networks so you can answer your cell phone on your TV, and unlock your front door from your car. Single points of contact, so if you want to call someone the network finds them and routes the call correctly. Appliances that can reorder supplies, or update your grocery lists while your shopping as your kids eat your food. Wouldn't it be great if everytime someone rang your doorbell or opened your door you could have a live feed sent to your TV or cell phone to see who is entering or exiting your house? Utility control so thermostats automatically adjust based on your location, and lights turn on and off when needed. How much closer towards energy independence could we be if the majority of people didn't have their furnace's/ACs blasting away when they're at work, or out to eat, or out at all?
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·Cox HSI
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| Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now I agree. I didn't say that, someone else did. For me the old WW1 Airman phrase "Speed is Life" sums up my opinion. More speed = more opportunities and options.
However I believe that even if they grant the speeds they will use the TOS as a tool to bludgeon people from being able to do anything too useful. (Such as host your own business.)
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join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Re: Possible in a year or 2; not likely until 10 yrs from now Yeah, I was just reply to the end of the thread because it makes it easier to read..
It was actually in response to BF69. | |
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| JSRoman
Premium
join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
| said by LiamJunket :Those kinds of speeds(100 mbps and up) to customers will be technically feasible in a year or two from US cable companies. But to make them widely available, infrastructure would have to be vastly updated, with numerous node splits in every neighborhood across the companies footprint. And that involves spending a great deal of money. Don't expect these speeds in most areas for up to 10yrs away. 1- Node splits are already happening.
2- 5.7 billion being spent this year on capital infrastructure hence Comcast stock taking a hit lately
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fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
Premium
join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA
| TOS violations? That's rather neat that such huge amounts of data can be downloaded so quickly. What they fail to report, however, is that customers actually downloading that will have their service terminated for downloading too much.  | |
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Agent_haito
join:2002-09-20
Winston Salem, NC | Re: TOS violations? hmm, maybe they will raise their caps in proportion to the stream increases..one can only hope. | |
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join:2003-12-17
Danville, NH
| Re: TOS violations? said by Agent_haito :hmm, maybe they will raise their caps in proportion to the stream increases..one can only hope. C'mon now...Comcrap has stated that they don't use caps  | |
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Gilitar
join:2000-11-20
Mobile, AL | AT&T better bring it By watching the headlines day in day out, it seems that AT&T is getting left in the dust.
Sure you may have eaten your babies, but what's next? | |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO | Re: AT&T better bring it Don't ATT always get left in the dust? they are always to slow to bring out new stuff. | |
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join:2004-03-19
Here | Because the Bells don't constantly issue press releases. | |
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24
1 edit | What's next? Enjoy being the nations biggest ISP. Sure they're the last company to ever innovate, but nobody outside of these boards ever notices.
Edit: Links: D'OH! | |
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yaw
join:2004-05-19
Morgantown, WV | as if it matters... 150Mb download will mean 1Mb upload
They just don't get it. I don't want faster download speeds. I'm happy with the 5Mb down I get right now. | |
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crippy
Premium
join:2005-05-17
some place
·Comcast
| upstream ?????? i dont think any1 really can use that much speed.. if you go to see not too many servers from where people download stuff would be having such speeds either.. although a boost in upstream by comcast would really be great.. something like 5mbps upstream.. | |
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NetDroid2
join:2004-08-16
Excelsior, MN | Thats great and all but.... how much is going to be shared with the rest of your node?
Anyone know what the eventual speed of a DOCSIS 3.0 node is going to be?
I would assume some extremely large number like Gb or Tb. | |
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BigVe
join:2005-07-15
Gulliver, MI | The bottom line.... What is all the speed gonna do when they cap you at 200GB/Mo. | |
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
Premium
join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL | > 2 mb or bust They need to do better than 2 mb UP if they want my biz. | |
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soccerguy
join:2004-06-28
Seattle, WA | Whoops Now you can exceed your undisclosed monthly cap in record time! Woo hoo. | |
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join:2006-12-21
Norfolk, VA | Re: Whoops cox has 5/2 and 15/2 plans in my area, had 2mb upload for like ever here | |
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Trevorm7
join:2005-01-17
Clearwater, FL | Not good enough 4 channels will only allow 160mbps/120mbps, split up to 32 houses that would be 5/3.75. With GPON you get 2.488Gbps/1.244Gbps, split up to 32 houses that would be 77.75/38.875. | |
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NoOneButMe
join:2001-08-24
TX | HUH Cant Even Get 2MB here on there 8MB line With PB that says it all i get 2mb and 2mb down but im paying for 8mb down lol | |
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ihatelimewire
@comcastbusiness.net | raising upstream raising the upstream makes peer to peer sharing (i.e. pirating) that much easier. not to mention the 'troubled' people who hack things will just be able to do it that much faster.
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