  amarryatVerizon FiOS
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Marshfield, MA | Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream Comcast needs new infrastructure or they'll never be able to offer fast upload. They'll have to invest the billions that Verizon invested a few years ago. | |
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 | | | Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream fios was a new build out. Comcast just took over older cable systems that where build some time ago. | |
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| | | | Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream Didn't that also happen to Vz, except they chose to reinvest in their infrastructure (at the time) instead of buying a TV network. Vz's facilities are twice the age and better maintained. Now its just about hoarding the mist money possible. | |
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| | | | | Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream and here i am in the west coast
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| | | That doesn't matter right now because the overwhelming majority of their users are not going to sustain these speeds. They are updating their networks similar to how businesses use just in time inventory.
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Princeton Junction, NJ | My wi-fi router can't seem to go above 20 mbps, so a Comcast speed increase won't make my network faster. When connected directly to ethernet, I get 35 mbps down 10 up. | |
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join:2005-05-02
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| Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream said by NickD:My wi-fi router can't seem to go above 20 mbps, so a Comcast speed increase won't make my network faster. When connected directly to ethernet, I get 35 mbps down 10 up.
You need to get an "N" wifi router. | |
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Saint Clair Shores, MI | Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream said by An :buy a Gb router...and you gotta remember wifi is half duplex so theres always loss.
For me, my bottle neck was my cables and my CC phone/modem. I dumped the phone service months ago and CC refused to give me a new modem. So, I just said, screw you, I'll go get my own SB6121 docis3 and swapped out my cables to 6e's. Already got a giga router and 802.11n router (Dlink DIR655 and matching AP). I'm paying 40 right now for 25/4 and I'm happy with the speeds. Bottle neck is gone. | |
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kudos:1 | This is what pains me from moving into an area that had FiOS to an area that only has Comcast available. My Slingbox can't keep up now with the meager upload that Comcast offers, at all but the most expensive business tiers.
I see 35/6 on speed tests with an ok latency, but even as the only person that uses this connection, the uploads just don't cut it. I can't imagine how this might impact a family or a group of users trying to share the same connection.
My Verizon HTC Rezound can get steady LTE upload speeds at a faster rate than my home connection.
My download speed is plenty fast enough already, but an increase in my upload speeds would be the most beneficial to me. | |
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| Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream Two points:
1. It doesn't matter what Comcast increases their speeds to, because they still have caps. Who cares if you have 50 down when you just hit the cap faster?
2. Why do you need more than 6 up? There are two people living in my house on a Comcast 12/2 business connection, and we don't have any problems with upload speed at all. Even "high-definition" providers like Netflix only stream so-called "HD" streams at 2Mbps. | |
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| | | | | Re: Comcast will not be able to keep up on the upstream said by quintin3265:2. Why do you need more than 6 up? There are two people living in my house on a Comcast 12/2 business connection, and we don't have any problems with upload speed at all. Even "high-definition" providers like Netflix only stream so-called "HD" streams at 2Mbps.
Google what a Slingbox is. It's nothing like Netflix. | |
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| | | | | said by quintin3265:Even "high-definition" providers like Netflix only stream so-called "HD" streams at 2Mbps. That's not true. I've got Netflix on my AppleTV and have watched it pull around 8-11Mbps when streaming HD content. This was verified with my FIOS routers bandwidth page. IIRC it was while streaming the TV show Flashpoint at 1080.
So yes with an adequate connection Netflix will stream tons of data and I'm tankful I'm on FIOS. | |
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| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | said by quintin3265:Two points:
1. It doesn't matter what Comcast increases their speeds to, because they still have caps. Who cares if you have 50 down when you just hit the cap faster?
2. Why do you need more than 6 up? There are two people living in my house on a Comcast 12/2 business connection, and we don't have any problems with upload speed at all. Even "high-definition" providers like Netflix only stream so-called "HD" streams at 2Mbps.
#1 ) Grow up. This topic has been beaten to death already for years! ..and it talking about hitting caps that much faster isn't going to change. Maybe people want to just get what they already DO, done FASTER.. Just because your car goes faster doesn't mean you're going to drive any further.. it just means you have more power and the ability to go faster. So drop the years old crap already.
2) Listening to your #2 pretty much says you don't know what you're talking about.. I get streams at about 10mb.. not sure what your problem is.
If you don't want the extra speed then tell them not to upgrade you at no charge. | |
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| | CV, join the party.. hey, if Comcast can boost 50mbit tier to 100, why not cablevision? Optimum boost @ 100+mbits would be great, of course that means docsis 3 bonded upstream channels for higher upload too.. 100/8 would be too asymmetric. 25 or more on the upstream! | |
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| Re: CV, join the party.. Well, technically the price will be more for that speed.. Comcast price is $65 for the 50 which will boost to 105... the OOL Extreme 101 is $99+ w/ a $300 installation fee which is not justifiable w/ Verizon breaking new speed barriers.
Having 100mbit speeds for $45 - $65 would be a big shift in the cost per (download) megabit! | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
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kudos:4 | said by tmc8080:hey, if Comcast can boost 50mbit tier to 100, why not cablevision? Optimum boost @ 100+mbits would be great, of course that means docsis 3 bonded upstream channels for higher upload too.. 100/8 would be too asymmetric. 25 or more on the upstream!
Cablevision doing 15mbps WITHOUT upstream bonding! | |
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| | Double speed I've seen Comcast TV commercials in NJ that state two tiers will soon have double the speed at no additional cost. | |
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| | | Re: Double speed They plan to start charging by gigabyte, so if you actually make use of the the bandwidth it will be at a huge extra cost | |
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| | | | Re: Double speed I'm ok with that. | |
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| | | | said by Wilsdom:They plan to start charging by gigabyte, so if you actually make use of the the bandwidth it will be at a huge extra cost
No there not!
Not until you go over the 300GB Cap anyway.
And that cap maybe even higher once they finalize everything. | |
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Who is going to deliver you 300GB of content in "just a few hours?" | |
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Should I continue ?
My Company had vpn concentrators on gig links , id appreciate the ability to work from home when I need to do big software installs. Instead of having to go into the office all the time, ohh wait the 300 gig limit still limits me to a couple big installs from home on friday and saturday nights.
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2 edits | said by jeff17:I've seen Comcast TV commercials in NJ that state two tiers will soon have double the speed at no additional cost.
I just heard the same thing but on the radio  | |
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kudos:4 | Ahhhhhh More token downstream boosts that'll go largely unused.
how about more upload[which always can be used!] | |
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| | Its 100% True speed upgrades are coming very soon! I was just listening to local radio station 94WIP Sports Radio here in Philly and they just had a brand new Comcast commercial talking about the new speed upgrade coming very soon!
Blast becomes 50
Extreme becomes 105 | |
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Circle Pines, MN | Does this effect Buisiness Class? Any word if these changes would also affect Premium and Deluxe Business class subscribers also?
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join:2010-10-16
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1 edit | In an area where FiOS ain't available Springfield, MA is in the Northeast but we cannot get FiOS. AT&T U-Verse is available about a 15 minute drive from our house just south of the border in Enfield, CT. Too bad Verizon couldn't sell their Western Massachusetts assets to AT&T so they could expand their U-Verse into the Springfield area.
Hopefully we'll get the better speeds as Comcast has D3 in our area and we've had it since late 2008 as we were one of the first areas to get D3. | |
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| Re: In an area where FiOS ain't available Glad I moved from chicopee to chicagoland. But your choices are not bad. U can have Comcast or charter (which serves chicopee). I don't know if vz DSL is in Springfield area but it is in chicopee. There is no fios there though last time I checked.
I used to live for about a year in Dubuque, IA for job related reasons and my only viable choice at that time was mediacom. Its more mediocre and pricey than Comcast. Constant outages and slowdowns. Cable rental boxes are joke. My other choice was century link but I stuck with media com due to contract. Eventually I broke contract with them free of etf due to incorrect prices was given during my phone orders, that's when I got involved bbb and sa. After I did that somehow they services have improved and no longer had to deal with slowdowns at peak times. Dbq area still has no 4g from vz or att except for us cellular. But 3g from att has always been rock solid. | |
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| | IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
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| Re: In an area where FiOS ain't available I used to live in Cedar Rapids, IA and we had an overbuilder in town which was McLeod USA (which is now I'mOn communications) and that kept Mediacom prices in check. My cable bill went up a good $10-$20 dollars just by moving to Springfield, MA and when we first moved to Springfield, we had the old dual cable system (with A/B cable lines) and you could not get HSI or digital cable. By the end of the year, AT&T Broadband (which owned the Cedar Rapids system before selling it to Mediacom) sold the Springfield system to Comcast and they rebuilt the cable system so we now have Digital Cable/HSI/VoIP available along with D3. | |
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| | | Yes. The Northeast is viewed as Vermont, all of Mass and all of CT as well as Carmel, NY. Springfield is actually a new product market that tests new products | |
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| | | I got a friend in Stafford Springs CT. You know of any areas around there or Springfield MA or Enfield CT that are Comcast serviced? | |
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| | IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
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| Re: In an area where FiOS ain't available Springfield, West Springfield, Westfield (Comcast headend is in Westfield), Agawam, Holyoke, and Longmeadow are served by Comcast. Chicopee, Ludlow, Wilbraham and East Longmeadow are served by Charter. I am glad I have Comcast as I have heard many complaints about Charter both on DSLR and local forums.
As for Enfield, CT they are served by Cox. | |
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join:2008-04-05
Westfield, MA | I was told At my local best buy that's what I was told when I was checking out new cable modems and got swarmed by the workers. Those speed's are dead on from what I was told, so who knows I'll believe it when I do some speed test's | |
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| IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
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| Re: I was told Make sure you buy a D3 modem. I have a Motorola 6120 but you'll have to get the 6121 because the 6120 is discontinued. I frequently shop at the Best Buy at Holyoke Mall and they're always sold out of the 6121 modems. They always have a boatload of 5101 modems in stock but I have a gut feeling that Comcast is soon going to declare all D2 modems to be end of life soon (which means they'll no longer support them). My 6120 works good for me though although I have thoughts of getting the 6121 but the folks in the Comcast HSI forum on this site said that the 6120 and the 6121 are basically the same thing except for a few minor tweaks. | |
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| camaro92Question everythingPremium
join:2008-04-05
Westfield, MA | Yup same location I did, I have a Arris WBM760A and they also say it is compatible, thanks for the advice though. | |
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| | Business Tiers If the rumor is true, will I see an increase from 22/5 to 50/5 on my business class tier? | |
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Here is the radio commercial!
You may need to turn up the volume a little | |
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| |  NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
join:2004-06-24
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| Re: Business Tiers said by sherman06810:If the rumor is true, will I see an increase from 22/5 to 50/5 on my business class tier?
said by gate1975mlm:It is true!
Here is the radio commercial!
You may need to turn up the volume a little
FYI, Your radio commercial is an Xfinity commercial, and Xfinity residential service != Comcast Business Class service.
Comcast Business Class service speed tier changes are glacial compared to Xfinity residential speed tier changes, and since business class customers also have very restrictive contracts, any speed tier changes for individual customers is sometimes postponed until contract renewal time.
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join:2001-08-30
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| How about upload speeds? Blast is currently 25/4 (30/6 if you count Powerboost). According to the Comcast shop web site (at least for my area, I have channel bonding) Extreme 50 is 50/15 and 105 is 105/20.
Does this mean Blast will now be 50/15?
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join:2001-08-30
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kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Re: How about upload speeds? said by ben7337 :I'd also like to know. I'm getting 25/4 now with power boost, but in reality sustained speeds are 14/2, which seems like an odd number to me. I think I'm on performance instead of blast. Does anyone know if performance is getting an upgrade? Or if i upgrade to the 30/? of blast speeds in my area will those speeds be going up? I'm doing a lot of stuff with our comcast bill and cablecard and other stuff this week so planning to call them, but would much rather get some solid info rather than talk to a customer service rep who hasn't been trained on anything.
I'm pretty sure 14/2 is Performance not Blast. Blast is a sustained 25/4 speed with boosts much higher. You can check your config file for "speedtierextreme2" in the name to see if you have Blast.
Performance is not getting a speed boost. Only the Blast and above tiers are getting a boost (or a price cut for those on 105 Mbps currently).
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Also I thought blast was only 30mbps down with powerboost? Not much higher? Or is the speed change moving blast to 50mbps with powerboost and 25 sustained? Maybe my market isn't getting this speed boost, the radio commercial does say it is only in certain markets. | |
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| | Caps Thanks for the upgrade, however we'll just reach our caps faster ... | |
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| | DSLR Next DSLR and Karl will be next for posting illegal recordings of radio stations. Great job there Karl! | |
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4 edits | Re: DSLR Next said by 25139889:DSLR and Karl will be next for posting illegal recordings of radio stations. Great job there Karl!
illegal recordings?
Are you saying the recording I uploaded is illegal?
I really find it hard to believe that having a radio playing in the backround and having it picked up by my microphone is very illegal.
But if this is true I am sorry and will just remove it.
I'll tell you I am really getting sick and tired of all this so called illegal crap! 
I thought I did a nice thing for you guys and now it sounds like I may have done something illegal
When will it stop? lol | |
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| | | | Re: DSLR Next Don't worry about ohio; he has some demons that he's struggling with. | |
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038xx | said by gate1975mlm:illegal recordings? [...] When will it stop? What Oedipus said. And thanks for the confirmation. Now all I have to do is figure out if seacoast New Hampshire is located in the Northeast. | |
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Boynton Beach, FL | The sad part is, the way our IP law has gotten crazy it probably is - but no worries, they'll definitely go after Karl before they come after you... | |
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Johnson City, TN | When will we get DOCSIS3? So now a good portion of Comcast can get 105mbps, over 13x the maximum speed of 8mbps available in Johnson City. Almost all of Comcast can get significantly faster speeds than our region.
Are we ever going to see upgrades out here?
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| | West Coast Love? So when is this rolling out to the west? And when will it matter to business class?
I've emailed my Rep and I'll post answers if I get any. | |
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| | Beat the cap Depending on how you use your internet, if like most who worry about the cap it's about netflix and things like that, comcast has a deal where any video watched through Xboxes doesn't count toward the cap, so you can watch all the netflix through 105 speed you want and be cap free. | |
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| | | Re: Beat the cap After researching more I guess its just the xfinity tv app that is cap free via xbox, but still better than nothing. | |
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| | comcast speeds they were just here the other day and the worker said in 2 weeks we will be getting a speed boost so we shall see | |
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| | | Re: comcast speeds Which state are you in? I imagine they'd just do it for all of New England in one shot who knows. | |
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| | heard this on TV i live in NJ and heard this on a TV ad. 07/06/2012. | |
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said by Jerkface:i live in NJ and heard this on a TV ad. 07/06/2012.
Same. Searching and a tip from a friend led me here. Fingers crossed that it happens soon! | |
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