[Speed] Side Discussion About Gigabit Pro & earlier Gigabit Deployments
Anyone know if Comcast has actually started installs? I live in the west palm beach, fl market announced for deployment this month. So far phone agents don't know anything of the service. I've been told by different agents, 2016, June and it'll be in the system tomorrow. None had even heard of the service before I inquired and they did a bit of research, so I went to out local sales office to inquire in person. There I had to show them the press release, to which they simply said its not yet available in the market. Seems like this was a pure fiber to the press release hail marry announcement to try to salvage the dead merger.
Side discussion in this thread, please. Keep it on topic. If you have questions or suggestions, please IM Sunny .
We need to consolidate all discussion about Gigabit Pro to one topic, all discussion which is not confirmed report of availability in a particular area. The report topics are now posted and stickied.
Johkal will post new stickied topic for those who wish to report actual install of DOCSIS 3.1 Gigabit service. Watch for it in the stickied section at top of the forum list.
Since they haven't even announced the price yet, I can't imagine it has started anywhere yet. That seems to be the trend, announce first and then get around to it a few months later.
Re: [Speed] Gigabit Pro - WA Availability Announcement
The announcement for Washington state said "available now" but I'm sure that you have to call in as it will need a site survey /check* to be sure you actually are in "close proximity" (1/3) of a fiber access point.
*Engineering probably has maps and lists of all the KNOWN qualified homes,so the survey may just be a DB check, but I can't see them commiting to any unlisted home without at least a driveby "Can we reach that?" to spot the oddball "Nope!" places. (paved private driveway with no RoW or conduit in place, etc.) depending on if you pay part of the actual install (instead of a flat $250-1000 fee for everyone) each offer might be a semi custom quote. Flat fees are usually easier to offer, but piss off the guy one or two poles away from a fiber split having to pay the same as someone at the outer edge of the available zone.
There's obviously been a great deal of discussion about this. However, to date there has been no mention of this product being field-tested or any areas having infrastructure in place to support it. This isn't a product where the company simply adds a few routers or servers and flips a switch to make it active; it will require a major overhaul of the headend and plant architecture, and largely abandons the current HFC architecture model.
We've all seen the timelines and target dates mentioned in the various press releases....but considering the lack of information that's out there, I suspect it will be at *least* 4-6 months before we hear of this product actually going live anywhere. And the widespread and large-scale deployment implied by their various press releases will take *years*.
Why, I was paying $115/month for Extreme 150, so an extra $34/month for 100 Mbps faster service doesn't seem that bad at all.
Or you could retain the exact same download speeds by downgrading to Blast and saving $35-45 depending on your promotion. That's the major problem I have with Extreme 150 pricing. It doesn't fit anywhere in the new California service tier structure.
Apr 21, 2015 Comcast today announced it will offer residential multi-gigabit broadband service in Florida to its more than 1.3 million customers in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm and Jacksonville areas. Gigabit Pro is a symmetrical, 2 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) service that will be delivered via a fiber-to-the-home solution. It will be offered broadly across Comcasts Florida service area beginning next month and will be the fastest residential Internet speed in the country. Florida is one of the first markets in the country to offer Gigabit Pro, following launches in Atlanta and California earlier this month.
Re: [Speed] Side Discussion About Gigabit Pro - Interface
Anyone have any idea what the interface box is going to look like, given there's currently no reasonably priced interface to get 2 GB of data into/out of most home machines? (10 Gb Ethernet is still quite pricy, and most 802.11ac routers would have a hard time delivering anything close to 2 Gb and most only have GigE Ethernet ports for data input.)
Most Gigabit Pro customers would then likely have the distinction of being client-side speed limited.
Anyone have any idea what the interface box is going to look like, given there's currently no reasonably priced interface to get 2 GB of data into/out of most home machines? (10 Gb Ethernet is still quite pricy, and most 802.11ac routers would have a hard time delivering anything close to 2 Gb and most only have GigE Ethernet ports for data input.)
Most Gigabit Pro customers would then likely have the distinction of being client-side speed limited.
Well, I think a simple configuration could be a few PCs connected to a gig switch with 10Gb uplinks. That would keep per-PC cost down.
It does look like an incomplete brainstorm (and the storm won) perhaps fstr is intended to convey blurred "faster fast" due to the speed, but a weak effort overall. I hope they go back to the comedic edge for their feel good ads. and a straight tear sheet for the product details.
wtf? "faster is getting fstr"? i guess less letters means fast, then.
what this means is when you download something it will appear faster when you are downloading it, however when you go to watch your video clip or audio clip you will have only received about 2/3rds of it. its stupid fast
While this article is on the MinnPost site, it also applies to all areas that will be launching Gigabit Pro service:
Should you care that Comcast is going to offer 2-gigabit Internet service in the the Twin Cities? By Brian Lambert, MinnPost - May 28, 2015 »www.minnpost.com/media/2 ··· n-cities
It does look like an incomplete brainstorm (and the storm won) perhaps fstr is intended to convey blurred "faster fast" due to the speed, but a weak effort overall. I hope they go back to the comedic edge for their feel good ads. and a straight tear sheet for the product details.
the problem is when you say "fstr", phonetically it sounds like "fester", implying an open wound of some kind, which isn't what you want.
I thought it was that Comcast was using a data compression/saving scheme, to turn ordinary 1 Gig links into 2Gbps Gigabit Pro ones, where they drop almost all the vowels when transporting text, like what's done with "Speedwriting."
I thought it was that Comcast was using a data compression/saving scheme, to turn ordinary 1 Gig links into 2Gbps Gigabit Pro ones, where they drop almost all the vowels when transporting text, like what's done with "Speedwriting."
Ha there you go! Or maybe, "fstr" is a subtle hint that their networks can't actually handle 2gbps connections, so if you sign up for this service you'll be expecting packet loss. ("Letter loss"?)
I called and spoke to Comcast's Customer Service after receiving the flyer but the only thing should could tell me is that it'll be released before May 2015 in the Atlanta area. Pricing has yet to be finalized and it will require that you live within 1/3 mile from their Fiber Plant. Other than that she really didn't have any additional details that wasn't already shared.
Im ready... I have my mikrotik ccr 1032 in the cart for 8 gigabit and 2 sfp+ ports. My new home is 600' with conduit to a brand new neighborhood with about 120 homes. The point is gimme gimme gimme some fiber.