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 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Southwest anyone? What about New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah?
Huh? No Comcast there either? if so, hard to believe they'd spend millions on upgrading in places that still have Century Ole' telephone as the next competitior. Even AT&T's paltry 25 megabits is looking mighty weak these days. Soon that will be the entry level speed demanded by consumers. | |
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 |  Jim_in_VA
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA
kudos:3 | Re: Southwest anyone? 25 megs down is paltry? I'd take that in a heartbeat over what I have.
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|  CjaicemanPremium,MVM
join:2004-10-12
Parker, CO
kudos:2
·Comcast Business..
| What are you talking about? CO is one of the best markets for Comcast, we seem to get upgrades before a lot of the rest of the network does. Denver metro (including Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont etc), CO Springs, Pueblo, Dillion/Silverthorn, Vail/Eagle/Avon, Glenwood Springs ALL have D3 (Basically everywhere in CO they have service). Comcast is crushing Century link (Qwest) here.
I think you need to do more research before you spew incorrect information all over the place.
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| | | | Re: Southwest anyone? Such a waste with a 250GB cap. Seriously, fire up utorrent for 3 hours and your done with internet for the month? | |
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| | | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Southwest anyone? What use do you gain out of maxing your connection for three hours?
I've exceeded the cap, but not by *that* much. | |
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| | Santa Cruz, CA left in the dark Santa Cruz sits just minutes from Silicon Valley--and has a very large student population, the kind of users who are dying for these speeds-- and yet there is "currently no timeline" for DOCSIS3 upgrades. Strangely, some very small rural towns to the North ,some with only ~1,000 people, have been upgraded.
I don't get it Comcast! I want >16mbit speeds please!! | |
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| | | Re: Santa Cruz, CA left in the dark said by freshzive:Santa Cruz sits just minutes from Silicon Valley But Santa Cruz jealously guards its isolation from Silicon Valley. There is a single 4-lane highway connecting it to Silicon Valley over the coastal mountains, and attempts to add more road capacity or add commuter rail are fought by the Santa Cruz residents. This may be apocryphal, but I understand that the University of California at Santa Cruz offers classes in surfing. Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley are different worlds. | |
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| | | I live in one of those towns to the north and couldn't get DSL even if I wanted it. Yet, I get DOCSIS 3.0 with bonded down and up. I've gotta give Comcast credit where credit is due. They could have totally ignored my neighborhood with service altogether, much less DOCSIS 3, but didn't.
As for Santa Carla...it must be the local vampires... | |
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 ·AT&T Wireless Br..
| You know DSL never will see over 25+ you know dsl never will see over 25+ mbps due to the old aging copper lines even if there was new technology pushing 300Meg to 1gbps like they been testing you wont see it on OLD POTS line. DSL is going to be a old and dead technology and it will be replaced by Fixed wireless or LTE (capped over priced crap) or future rural FTTH that never will happen with out millions of dollars being spent. So the future will be Fixed Wireless by WISP's.
Far as cable its only going to be fixed to towns/villages or larger citys but never see it in rural parts of america. But it might maybe needs to be rewired to handle the higher speeds because that is what Time Warner Cable had to do in my Village of Coldwater because there was a old cable company called adelphia cable and it was running on old coax lines so basically TWC rewired the whole village to handle wideband. | |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Weird The plans are weird. Our area shows the 100 package, but not the 50 package. Go figure. And our default speeds haven't been boosted yet. | |
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| | It's here in Detroit Amazingly enough, even in this economic challenged neighborhood, D3 is here in Detroit. I guess that would rule cherry picking. Lol  | |
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| | The next phase please... Now that you are "done" with the hardware end of your infrastructure can you now role out a new user interface on ALL your boxes in ALL your areas now? | |
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| | | Re: Service in the gap what a bunch of crap! said by Mr Matt: At the supermarket they ask if you want paper or plastic.
Not here in the San Francisco Bay area. Many cities here have banned single-use paper or plastic bags. Either you bring your own re-usable bags, or toss your loose groceries in the car. Of course, now it is coming out that these re-usable bags very quickly become laden with all sorts of nasty bacteria. | |
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join:2000-12-11
Portage, IN | Re: Service in the gap what a bunch of crap! Whew! Glad I don't live there. What would I take my lunch to work in or dump the cat's litter box into? I guess in San Fran, I could probably just dump the waste in the street since cat waste is "natural" and "biodegradable" HA!
And also glad I am in a solid DOCSIS 3 area here outside Chicago, where we can still have our groceries in bags, take hot showers, and it's not a faux pas to launder our clothing, thank goodness. Enjoy all the comforts of the third world, left coast suckers! | |
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| | It's here in Memphis, TN I recently upgraded to the 50 Meg service and I LOVE it. The downloads are amazing. It's especially nice that with a speed that high I no longer deal with the issue of speed burst. How I used to be so disappointed when a file would download super fast at first and then slow down half-way through. With the new speeds you get the full throttle from start to finish. I LOVE IT!! | |
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·Comcast
| Fishy... It seems odd they would call it complete with millions of subs left cold. My city isn't remotely urban but the full beans docsis 3.0 up to 105Mbps down is available. Santa Cruz should have been one of the first considering it's vicinity to the tech hub. I wonder if local government played a role in delaying any permits so Comcast gave up on them. Makes me wonder if those markets will get the new X1 service. | |
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| fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | Re: Fishy... This is not directed at you personally, but the point made by you and many...
.. the argument that an area should be upgraded, or not, just because it's "near silicon valley" is not a valid one and needs to be put to rest.
Upgrades and investment is based on potential return as a primary factor. What exactly does being near a "tech hub" have to do with the need for speeds? One example, valid one, that can be said is that they go to work, work all day, and when they come home they could care less to be on the internet at 100mb speeds where 12 works just fine.
Another somewhat related example.. The Twin Cities.. a very strong economy, lots of business here, a clean and well maintained metro with a good 3.3 million people. We have quite a few world headquarters here and the income levels are pretty good as well. Lots of tech here too.. but on the TV side of things, for example, we're not a metro area with a population that ranks high on the list as big TV viewers.. so in the sense of investing millions into major infrastructure upgrades on the TV front, while on the numbers alone, would not be a priority to get upgraded, at least first. Just an example is all.
.. it just really isn't a primary reason for an area to be upgraded alone. | |
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| | They're getting better Now if they could just increase the size of that cap on residential packages (or remove it completely!)... we can start loving Comcast again instead of hating. | |
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| | | Re: They're getting better It's a soft cap. | |
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·Atlantic Broadband
| Comcast Misses Western MD The Frostburg, MD/Keyser, WV headend is still waiting for phone service, still waiting for HDTV, still waiting for the Comcast digital lineup only having what's left from Adelphia, still waiting for DOCSIS 3.0.
To some degree, Comcast has cherrypicked and instead of moving smaller markets forward, they're moving speeds up more and removing the remaining analog channels for more HD.
But Garrett County got the upgrades, can get 100 HD channels and 100 Mbps internet. And is much more rural than the aforementioned headend. | |
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| | | Re: Comcast Misses Western MD You would have to understand how it is all laid out to understand why things are like they are.
Many cable companies have these small towns/areas that must be served because of what ever franchise agreement. So these properties were bought, but are not part of the larger Comcast system. There is no backbone fiber connecting a site like you are connected to. It is standalone as far as TV signals go. There is no Comcast dark fiber to the area.
The more rural area you say that got the upgrade is along Comcast's fiber path and was easily upgraded as soon as fiber was extended.
It is probably not economically feasible now, and probably not ever, for the system you are on to be connected to the rest of Comcast.
It's not a matter of cherrypicking. It's a matter of how close fiber is and how many millions it would cost to get fiber there as opposed to them just paying existing satellite contracts and leases.
Just because Comcast aquired it doesn't make it magically a piece of Comcast. | |
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 TsumePremium
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
·Comcast
| Johnson City / Gray, TN Still nothing here. We just now started getting the mailers about them switching channels to digital and a list of all the new HD channels we'll be getting, so MAYBE DOCSIS3 will follow.
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|  CPUYODA
join:2003-01-25
Johnson City, TN | Re: Johnson City / Gray, TN Ditto... | |
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| | Upstream Channel Bonding When will we see upstream channel bonding in the Portland, OR market? 25 Mbps down is nice and all, but still 3 Mbps up? | |
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| | | Re: Comcast is the fastest Internet in my area MA government is putting 80 million into fiber that might never reach homes. | |
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| | No upsteam bonding for a LOT of areas... My 30Mb+ d/l bandwidth is amazing but only 5Mb up via single channel docsis2 is pretty lame imo..esp for all us triple play customers. | |
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| | Docsis 3.0 Finally arrives to Santa Fe New Mexico Santa Fe New Mexico Finally we have D3 four channel bonding atleast hopefully be able to upgrade to 50 or 100 meg in a few days 
Seeems like we were last one the list yet again lol but finally got it
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| sk1939
join:2010-10-23
france
kudos:6 Reviews:
·T-Mobile US
·Verizon FiOS
| Re: Docsis 3.0 Finally arrives to Santa Fe New Mexico
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Service in the gap what a bunch of crap!
Karl you are correct. Here in Eustis, Florida, just North of Orlando, don't hold your breath for DOCSIS 3.0 or you will turn blue. We did get a price increase of $5.00 per month for internet access over two years. As of January 1, 2011 there was an increase of $1.00 from $43.00 to $44.00 and a increase of $4.00 as of January 1, 2012 the total increase was $43.00 to $47.00 or just over 16%.
