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Comcast 50Mbps Coming To Florida
Cable giant focuses on Florida to battle AT&T, Verizon

A Comcast insider tells me that Sarasota, Florida should begin seeing DOCSIS 3.0 gear and faster 50Mbps speeds starting next month. The company is in the process of installing DOCSIS 3.0 in the market now to help them do combat with FiOS. Initial installs should begin in June, and all of Sarasota should have the speedier gear installed by July. In FiOS markets, Comcast is skipping 16Mbps "Blast" upgrades, and bringing out the big guns.

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Comcast is paying a good deal of attention to Florida because in addition to FiOS, AT&T is planning a U-Verse launch in North Florida sometime in June. Given U-Verse maxes out at 10Mbps, the broader Southeast should see an increase in 16Mbps Blast availability to help counter AT&T's long-awaited push into BellSouth territory.

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Comcast has also created an internal bounty program for spotting U-Verse launches. "Big wigs have been bombarding us with emails telling us to be on lookout for Uverse yard signs," one employee tells me. "There is even a bounty of $100 to first verified address that can get Uverse."

Last month, Comcast launched their first pre-certification DOCSIS 3.0 market, offering $150, 50Mbps/5Mbps service in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Last week a Comcast executive stated that they've got three markets running on DOCSIS 3.0, but two of them are currently only engaged in testing.

Comcast customers annoyed that they'll "only" be seeing 16Mbps instead of 50Mbps can blame AT&T for going with FTTN & VDSL instead of FTTH. Still, you won't have to wait long for DOCSIS 3.0 if you're willing to spill the $150: Comcast has promised to deploy 50Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 service to their entire customer base by 2010.
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ptrowski
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Didn't they already announce this?

Is this just the same news?

Karl Bode
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Re: Didn't they already announce this?

Comcast South Florida wandered off the reservation, issuing a press release last March saying they'd be upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0, but it lacked market or timeline specifics.

ptrowski
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Re: Didn't they already announce this?

Thanks Carl, I remember they were saying it was going to happen. Thanks for the clarification!

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Pricing

I wonder if the price will remain the same? its $150 in minneapolis but we don't have FiOS we have Qwest and Qwest will never get those speeds.

So will it be cheaper for FL residents to get the 50 meg package seeing as they have to battle FiOS and UVerse.
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Re: Pricing

Agreed. Comcast can get away charging $150 in Minneapolis/St Paul due to Quest. But that price is going to be a bit out of step with the market in Florida, unless they're looking mostly for PR gains and not actual subscriber gains.

It's a step forward in any case, but with caps coming, Comcast's abuse risk is limited (especially compared to Verizon's 15Mbps upstream plans) so they should have room to be able to price aggressively with FIOS. I can't imagine most stockholders are happy with this, so we'll see.

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Approaching caps much faster! Now that's COMCASTIC!

Yawn. In reality, is anything "unlimited"?
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Re: Approaching caps much faster! Now that's COMCASTIC!

Who said unlimited?

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Comcast dropped the "unlimited" several years ago. OTOH, they have not dropped their triple-secret download/upload caps and capital punishment for offenders.

The *only* reason that Comcast will permit users to access the potential of docsis 3 is for their own content.

I wonder what Comcast is going to do with NetFlix $100 streaming video system if one has the temerity to actually use the NetFlix stream at it's potential?

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Upload speed?

I knew they were going to go with Florida..with that leaked announcement.

My only question..Will the upload remain the same at 5meg, being that there are now docsis 3 modems out (Arris modems now even)

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.

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said by ztmike:

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
If you* aren't willing/able to pay for it, what difference does it make?

* I mean you in the majority of users sense, not just you individually.

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said by ztmike:

I knew they were going to go with Florida..with that leaked announcement.

My only question..Will the upload remain the same at 5meg, being that there are now docsis 3 modems out (Arris modems now even)

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
tshirt - no with DOCSIS 3.0 there is much higher bandwidth. Comcast is still testing it. It is capable of providing at the least 300Mbps Down. I know the Upload speed is planned (probably after a year maybe of a launch) to be available to be changed to 50Mbps Up with Docsis 3.0, and maybe even higher as more testing is done. Same thing happened when Fios was released for the first time in my area. They have changed their Down and Up speed combonations about 5 times. 50Mbps down is alot.

I loved having 20Mbps Down 5Mbps up with Fios before. But Verizon's Customer Service is never there, you have to wait 3 hrs before reaching a rep (I finished watching a movie on demand before rep answered), billing is only opened at certain times and their automated system likes to mis-route everyone just about everytime you call. You end up at DSL support which Verizon can't handle, you get a recording saying they are too busy to handle your call at this time, and to try your call again later. I will never switch back to Verizon again!
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said by BSD24:

It is capable of providing at the least 300Mbps Down. I know the Upload speed is planned (probably after a year maybe of a launch) to be available to be changed to 50Mbps Up with Docsis 3.0, and maybe even higher as more testing is done.
300 down is PER NODE. Its like Comcast releasing a 40 down plan on DOCSIS 1 or 2 equipment. Ain't happening.

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said by patcat88:

said by BSD24:

It is capable of providing at the least 300Mbps Down. I know the Upload speed is planned (probably after a year maybe of a launch) to be available to be changed to 50Mbps Up with Docsis 3.0, and maybe even higher as more testing is done.
300 down is PER NODE. Its like Comcast releasing a 40 down plan on DOCSIS 1 or 2 equipment. Ain't happening.
patcat88 - check your facts, if that were so then how would 100 people divide the 300 and still get a 50Mbps Connect and when Comcast promises eventually having a tier (probably for businesses and heavy residential users) for 150Mbps Down??? Never will there be 2 houses per node! Never will there be 6 houses per node. Currently there are areas with 200+ users per node. Try again.

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said by BSD24:

patcat88 - check your facts, if that were so then how would 100 people divide the 300 and still get a 50Mbps Connect
Oversubscription.

Right now with DOCSIS1.x/2.0 systems you have 100 users sharing a 38mbps downstream channel, even with users being able to consume up to 16mbps of that bandwidth (with Blast!).

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said by ztmike:

I knew they were going to go with Florida..with that leaked announcement.

My only question..Will the upload remain the same at 5meg, being that there are now docsis 3 modems out (Arris modems now even)

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
Me too. Because their std speed pkg with powerboost gives me all the speed I need for any reasonable size download and even the upload works well for transferring relative pics and videos to web sites.

The 50/5 pkg would be good for those working from home and constantly uploading large engineering drawings or PR videos, etc. A nice pkg for corporate warriors.

Of course, it is a little pricey for those who just want their P2P music & movie sharing(read stealing) apps to work quicker.
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Re: Upload speed?

said by FFH5:

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Of course, it is a little pricey for those who just want their P2P music & movie sharing(read stealing) apps to work quicker.
too true. at that price point INFRINGERS (read not thieves), may as well stay with a less costly, slower connection and spend the difference on legal, licensed downloads.

unless of course they don't like DRM; or the inconvenience; or installing another app; or paying too much; or having a very limited selection....

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said by FFH5:

said by ztmike:

I knew they were going to go with Florida..with that leaked announcement.

My only question..Will the upload remain the same at 5meg, being that there are now docsis 3 modems out (Arris modems now even)

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
Me too. Because their std speed pkg with powerboost gives me all the speed I need for any reasonable size download and even the upload works well for transferring relative pics and videos to web sites.

The 50/5 pkg would be good for those working from home and constantly uploading large engineering drawings or PR videos, etc. A nice pkg for corporate warriors.

Of course, it is a little pricey for those who just want their P2P music & movie sharing(read stealing) apps to work quicker.
We're all quite aware of your assertion that all P2P users are thieves. Given your constant anti-consumer/pro-business rhetoric, I would assume you work for or have stock holdings in telecom companies.

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said by Jim Kirk:

We're all quite aware of your assertion that all P2P users are thieves. Given your constant anti-consumer/pro-business rhetoric, I would assume you work for or have stock holdings in telecom companies.
I'm retired and never worked for a telecom or cable company. And I have investments in hundreds of companies world wide. 539 companies as of 8 A.M. today.
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I have no special interest in telecom companies other than the small piece they play in my total portfolio.
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Your investment list should be update- Home Depot's legal name is Homer TLC, Inc. their DBA is The Home Depot but only in the USA.

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said by hottboiinnc4:

Your investment list should be update- Home Depot's legal name is Homer TLC, Inc. their DBA is The Home Depot but only in the USA.
But that isn't how they are known on the NYSE.

And Homer TLC, Inc. is a subsidiary of parent companies Home Depot U S A , Inc , The Home Depot Inc
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said by Jim Kirk:

We're all quite aware of your assertion that all P2P users are thieves. Given your constant anti-consumer/pro-business rhetoric, I would assume you work for or have stock holdings in telecom companies.
Is it so hard to believe that he just has some ethics? I'm not strongly pro-business, but I still see that media and software pirates are still losers.

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said by FFH5:
said by ztmike:

I knew they were going to go with Florida..with that leaked announcement.

My only question..Will the upload remain the same at 5meg, being that there are now docsis 3 modems out (Arris modems now even)

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
Me too. Because their std speed pkg with powerboost gives me all the speed I need for any reasonable size download and even the upload works well for transferring relative pics and videos to web sites.

The 50/5 pkg would be good for those working from home and constantly uploading large engineering drawings or PR videos, etc. A nice pkg for corporate warriors.

Of course, it is a little pricey for those who just want their P2P music & movie sharing(read stealing) apps to work quicker.
So you think ALL people who use torrents "steal"? That's kinda bullheaded. Hell when I downloaded the Metal Gear Solid 4 demo off the Playstation Network for Playstation 3, Konami used p2p.

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said by ztmike:

I hope Chicago ain't to far behind..but at $150 month..you can count me out.
Chicago might just be not too far behind because Comcast is thirsty for money and just loves charging us higher than any other state. I can see them charging the Chicagoland $200 bundled with Digital Cable and Digital Voice. It'll probably cost about $150 for everyone else

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Re: Upload speed?

Glad I'm in an RCN only area... (I think...)

Thank the aldermen for dividing up Chicago into discrete "single cable company" only areas.

Mostly along the lakefront....
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Competition

So now we get to see the long-awaited DOCSIS3 vs. FiOS... be interesting to see what that means, whether Verizon will be forced to ratchet their speeds up a notch (come on, 100mbps is possible isn't it?) or drop prices (hahahahahahaha, like that's going to happen) to compete.
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^^^AGREED^^^ it'll be nice to see a real good competition race for customers. Although, I belive Verizon will win..
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Well, Comcast has a big advantage in deployment- they already have lines going to houses, it's a matter of upgrading the equipment at either end- VZ has to build everything from the ground up. I don't know how much FiOS is deployed in Verizon Florida's areas, but I doubt it's 100% yet.. and once you've gotten 50mbps from Comcast, when Verizon starts deploying in your area it's not as alluring...

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said by EPS4:

Well, Comcast has a big advantage in deployment- they already have lines going to houses, it's a matter of upgrading the equipment at either end- VZ has to build everything from the ground up. I don't know how much FiOS is deployed in Verizon Florida's areas, but I doubt it's 100% yet.. and once you've gotten 50mbps from Comcast, when Verizon starts deploying in your area it's not as alluring...
I agree. And Comcast already has Fiber to the Node technology. If they ever reached some sort of limit they could then just extend the Fiber lines all the way to the house, with out too much cost compared to having to run Fiber lines from start to finish (in Verizon's case with Fios). Also is why Verizon sold their Fios system in ME/VT. Comcast has a larger Fiber foot-print than Verizon will for a while.

I am still debating on whether Comcast should really switch from Hybrid-Fiber-Coax to FTTH. But it wouldn't be too hard for them to do it, although then again with prices of everything going up including gas they probably won't do it anytime soon.
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Re: Competition

Comcast's Fiber can't be used for FIOS technology AKA BPON/GPON. Not enough fiber strands. A fiber node only gets 1 or 2 strands, and that fiber node serves 100-400 houses. 1 BPON strand serves 32 houses. It doesn't compare. They would have to have Uverse Size cabinets in the field (like Utopia), and use IPTV. And PR wise that is guaranteed not to happen.

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Re: Competition

As they are different in some ways, Fiber is Fiber. Not sure what Comcast has for fiber in your area, but there is different Fiber line diameters. First it starts from the "Headend" those lines are extremely thick, as it should be. All Comcast has to do (varies obviously by areas - since some areas may be outdated from recent take-overs) is build up some of the Fiber lines, but still they have good fiber already in place that could handle it. What they need to do is run the Fiber deeper - more closely to the premises (home), which will make a much more reliable network and help the nodes not get bogged down. See an article-link below....

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said by BSD24:

As they are different in some ways, Fiber is Fiber. Not sure what Comcast has for fiber in your area, but there is different Fiber line diameters. First it starts from the "Headend" those lines are extremely thick, as it should be.
First off, your statement of "fiber is fiber" is completely inaccurate. There's fiber characterized for different modal qualities, such as single mode (aka long haul) and multi mode (aka short haul) fiber. The runs from the headend to the nodes are 9 micron core single mode fiber, which is incredibly thin. The thickness you are referring to is the armored cladding to prevent breakage. For multimode varieties the core sizes are 62.5micron (aka FDDI grade fiber) and 50micron, and those come in different modal bandwidths from 200Mhz - 2000Mhz. You need fiber characterized to carry the optical wavelengths you intend to transmit, with the correct amount of loss so that you don't have the extremes of signal loss or burning out your optical receivers.
said by BSD24:

All Comcast has to do (varies obviously by areas - since some areas may be outdated from recent take-overs) is build up some of the Fiber lines, but still they have good fiber already in place that could handle it.
They could, in theory, use fiber to feed optical hubs, but the signal would need to be regenerated. It wouldn't technically be a "passive" optical network like Verizon's GPON/BPON infrastructure.

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said by SpaethCo:

said by BSD24:

As they are different in some ways, Fiber is Fiber. Not sure what Comcast has for fiber in your area, but there is different Fiber line diameters. First it starts from the "Headend" those lines are extremely thick, as it should be.
First off, your statement of "fiber is fiber" is completely inaccurate. There's fiber characterized for different modal qualities, such as single mode (aka long haul) and multi mode (aka short haul) fiber. The runs from the headend to the nodes are 9 micron core single mode fiber, which is incredibly thin. The thickness you are referring to is the armored cladding to prevent breakage. For multimode varieties the core sizes are 62.5micron (aka FDDI grade fiber) and 50micron, and those come in different modal bandwidths from 200Mhz - 2000Mhz. You need fiber characterized to carry the optical wavelengths you intend to transmit, with the correct amount of loss so that you don't have the extremes of signal loss or burning out your optical receivers.
said by BSD24:

All Comcast has to do (varies obviously by areas - since some areas may be outdated from recent take-overs) is build up some of the Fiber lines, but still they have good fiber already in place that could handle it.
They could, in theory, use fiber to feed optical hubs, but the signal would need to be regenerated. It wouldn't technically be a "passive" optical network like Verizon's GPON/BPON infrastructure.
Cisco and other companies are working with Comcast and other providers to bring fiber deeper. Besides the fact I didn't want to get too deep in this conversation about fiber lines, I simply stated the obvious.

Should I also mention that some Comcast customers already have FTTH/FTTP... Off the same network servicing HFC customers.... It was a development area taken over by Comcast, they gutted the previous service provider (satellite and dsl) lines and equipment, and built up a completely fiber to the premise network. Althought there were some problems with some bugs in the brand new system it is now functional. People in the nearby area of this development (still on nodes with HFC) had issues whenever there were issues at the Development area, since its one network and closed circuit so to say.

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said by EPS4:

So now we get to see the long-awaited DOCSIS3 vs. FiOS... be interesting to see what that means, whether Verizon will be forced to ratchet their speeds up a notch (come on, 100mbps is possible isn't it?) or drop prices (hahahahahahaha, like that's going to happen) to compete.
I don't understand why anyone believes any of these higher tiers are going to get cheaper, other than short term promos.
in 5-10 years once fios and DOCSIS 3 are fully deployed, you MIGHT see occasional price wars, but the standard rates will be higher than ever.
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said by tshirt:

I don't understand why anyone believes any of these higher tiers are going to get cheaper, other than short term promos.
in 5-10 years once fios and DOCSIS 3 are fully deployed, you MIGHT see occasional price wars, but the standard rates will be higher than ever.
Both Comcast and Verizon know that a price war is bad for both of them. A race to the bottom in price is as smart as pulling the pin on a grenade, dropping it, and running as fast as possible away from it, if you trip (financial problems due to low ARPU), you die. Verizon would die first in a price war, since they need as much income as possible to build out FIOS and pay back any financing on it. Comcast is 100% sunk costs, Comcast already deployed everything and payed off installation costs years ago, so they can play the price game.
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The lower speed bundles are where the promotions will be at. Expect all out pricing war on those entry level packages once Uverse hit some areas. The upper speeds you can pretty much forget about any type of price battle.
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AT&T is now going to painfully realize how short sighted they were in deploying U-verse.

Look for U-verse to get a dramatic "Upgrade" in the future.

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Actually, Florida makes a great test state (because of the overlap of FIOS and AT&T's UVerse competing with Comcast) as right now FIOS is going head-to-head with Comcast literally on Comcast's home turf: the Greater Philadelphia-to-DC MegaCluster (basically everything from northern New Jersey to greater Richmond except eastern Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore counties). Comcast had no choice but to roll out Blast! in this area because FIOS is stealing not just HSI customers, but even cable TV customers that already had VZ for phone and were loath to leave (Comcast is losing HSI customers because VZ has the 15/15 package they are marketing like crazy; worse, new HSI customers would much rather deal with VZ, especially if they have VZ for phone). The reputation of cable companies in general (not just Comcast) is pretty awful in most of the MegaCluster, and VZ is picking up customers just by not being a cable company.
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Why the high prices?

I don't understand the justification of the high prices other than they feel they can get away with it. What resources are being used up faster internet speeds? Other than electrons and photons flying around, what else is there?
Higher hard drive capacity actually requires more "physical" space so there are resources used up to get that space. Does comcast have to pay someone also for the bandwidth they use.
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said by ossito16:

I don't understand the justification of the high prices other than they feel they can get away with it. What resources are being used up faster internet speeds? Other than electrons and photons flying around, what else is there?
There are backbone costs (1 gigabit card, 10 gigabit card, SONET cards....). But they are minimal since residential users don't use 100% of their supposed speed, and if they do, you get the termination letters. The different prices for different speeds is similar to CPUs. The reason you can overclock CPUs is because Intel sells CPUs at different price points to make more money. They could just sell 1 or 2 speeds, but more money is made by making really low speed CPUs and really high speed CPUs, and the high speed ones are much more profitable. Manufacturing costs are the same for each BTW.

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I don't understand the justification of the high prices other than they feel they can get away with it. What resources are being used up faster internet speeds? Other than electrons and photons flying around, what else is there?
A typical cable plant has 750MHz - 1000MHz of frequency spectrum to work with, and that is shared between video and data services.

Per the DOCSIS spec, upstream is restricted to the 5-42Mhz frequency range. Downstream capacity is added in 38mbps chunks consuming 6MHz of frequency each. Current DOCSIS 3.0 implementations are limited to 4 channel muxing, so max capacity downstream today is 152mbps.

The limits of the physical plant are what make the opportunity cost of the bandwidth high.

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Oh well

In other news, Charter sits on 16 meg otherwise known as 5 meg in areas that are not upgraded till the year 2016. When asked why they are not upgrading their network to match the times and overwhelming stress put on their network, Charter responded..."because that costs money" and "we're not making enough of NebuAD, not that we would use that money for anything other then shit deadwood managment in Charter but..."

Can't wait till Charter get's 50 meg. I'll be in a wheelchair by then but it will be cool anyways to max it out and get 19 megabit out of the 50 they advertise then.

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Speed vs Caps

What difference can super speed make as long as there are secret up/download caps?
Those who will benefit will just hit their "termination for excessive use/abuse" faster.
And for the rest, does getting something a minute or two faster really make that much of a difference?

Sorry, except for some limited business/institutions, I just see it in the same light as the 180mph position on my car speedometer... unless billing by download volume is their real unspoken priority.

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What's the point!

Its great to hear all this wonderful news about speed upgrades, but since comcast called me ater downloading over 500gb and giving me a warning that if it happens again then they will terminate my account for 12 months. With 50Mbps, I could go over the limit in less than a week.

Well look at the bright side, I could check my email faster(sarcasm)

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We will never see it....

In SWFLA....F'in Comcast!

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sf

Can't wait till it actually comes to South Florida

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Thank GOD!

This should help boost my and other comcast users all time low dissatisfaction with our service (LOL!) up a few notches.

Bring it on Comcast! We're all anxiously awaiting the upgrades.

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To compete with fios you have to compete

IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, not just downstream.
5mbps upload is a JOKE! why bother comcast
What they want to do is currently being done by cablevision's OOL BOOST on D2!

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ATT is 50 Mbit if just get HSIA

ATT is 50 Mbit if just get HSIA

mr2cqql
@74.222.37.x

mr2cqql

Anon

Re: ATT is 50 Mbit if just get HSIA

man, comcast sucks compare to what I use to have in hong kong Broadband Network. there basic plan is 25mbps/20mbps and so on max to 1 Gbit/s. I use to pay around $25usd for 100mbps/20mbps connection plan, and I think the 1gbit/s is around $150usd and I am talking about unlimited usage for up and down. but the other thing is the government is monitoring the network traffic for illegal activitives.
mr2kqql
join:2008-04-23
Chicago, IL

mr2kqql

Member

comcast sucks

man, comcast sucks compare to what I use to have in hong kong Broadband Network. there basic plan is 25mbps/20mbps and so on max to 1 Gbit/s. I use to pay around $25usd for 100mbps/20mbps connection plan, and I think the 1gbit/s is around $150usd and I am talking about unlimited usage for up and down. but the other thing is the government is monitoring the network traffic for illegal activitives.

Help_Wanted
@verizon.net

Help_Wanted

Anon

100 megabits minus penalty.

Comcast wanted to do 100 megabits but they moved up docsis 3.0 deployment ahead of schedule in Florida and must incur a penalty. Florida will only seat upto 50 Megabits down / and upto 5 megabits up.

- Sign of the times (expect more, get less)

:-P
brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Tampa, FL

brianiscool

Member

Whoo Hoo!

Come to Miami now I have my $130 reserved for this!