Comcast rolls out 105Mbps internet. Keeps bandwidth cap the same.

[techs]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/comcast_rolls_out_105mbps_internet_across_nation

Comcast Rolls Out 105Mbps Internet Across the Nation

If you're a Comcast subscriber, go ahead and bust out your old Sammy Hagar cassette and start belting out "I Can't Drive 55." All you need is enough green, and you won't have to drive through cyberspace at a piddly 55Mbps. Comcast has been busy laying cable and now offers its newest and highest-tier Internet speed, "Extreme 105," to more than 40 million homes from coast to coast. What can you do with 105Mbps Internet?

According to Comcast, you can download a 4GB high-definition movie in 5 minutes, a 1.5GB standard definition flick in 2 minutes, a 300MB standard definition TV show in 20 seconds, and 10-song, 40MB music album in just 3 seconds.

"This speed tier continues to expand our portfolio of Internet service offerings and takes them up to a whole new level," said Cathy Avgiris, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Data Services. "With it, we’re powering the digital home of the future, where entire families using multiple devices – laptops, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones – can all take advantage of high-bandwidth applications simultaneously ensuring they each have a great online experience."

To enroll in Comcast's Extreme 105 service, you'll have to fork over $105 per month for 12 months as part of the company's Triple Play bundle. The service comes with a wireless home networking gateway, and if you're not down with the Triple Play bundle, you can still order the Extreme 105 tier on a standalone basis, though only if you don't mind parting with $199/month -- yikes!

Pricing bugaboo aside, Comcast's 250GB data cap still applies, which we find a little bogus. After all, if you're forking over a high premium for blistering fast Internet access, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a looser fitting cap, or remove it altogether.



Interesting concept. Keep offering faster speeds but keep the same bandwidth cap.
Eventually you can download your entire months bandwidth in a day.

And, for 199.00 you still get a 250 gb cap?

Is Comcast on crack, or what?

 

[zerocool84]

People here say that if you want to get rid of a cap then you have to pay for it, well I guess $200 still isn't enough. It just shows how retarded these cable companies are.

 

[QuantumPion]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/comcast_rolls_out_105mbps_internet_across_nation

Comcast Rolls Out 105Mbps Internet Across the Nation

If you're a Comcast subscriber, go ahead and bust out your old Sammy Hagar cassette and start belting out "I Can't Drive 55." All you need is enough green, and you won't have to drive through cyberspace at a piddly 55Mbps. Comcast has been busy laying cable and now offers its newest and highest-tier Internet speed, "Extreme 105," to more than 40 million homes from coast to coast. What can you do with 105Mbps Internet?

According to Comcast, you can download a 4GB high-definition movie in 5 minutes, a 1.5GB standard definition flick in 2 minutes, a 300MB standard definition TV show in 20 seconds, and 10-song, 40MB music album in just 3 seconds.

"This speed tier continues to expand our portfolio of Internet service offerings and takes them up to a whole new level," said Cathy Avgiris, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Data Services. "With it, we’re powering the digital home of the future, where entire families using multiple devices – laptops, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones – can all take advantage of high-bandwidth applications simultaneously ensuring they each have a great online experience."

To enroll in Comcast's Extreme 105 service, you'll have to fork over $105 per month for 12 months as part of the company's Triple Play bundle. The service comes with a wireless home networking gateway, and if you're not down with the Triple Play bundle, you can still order the Extreme 105 tier on a standalone basis, though only if you don't mind parting with $199/month -- yikes!

Pricing bugaboo aside, Comcast's 250GB data cap still applies, which we find a little bogus. After all, if you're forking over a high premium for blistering fast Internet access, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a looser fitting cap, or remove it altogether.



Interesting concept. Keep offering faster speeds but keep the same bandwidth cap.
Eventually you can download your entire months bandwidth in a day.

And, for 199.00 you still get a 250 gb cap?

Is Comcast on crack, or what?

That's weird becase I'm pretty sure the comcast business internet connection, which has no bandwidth limit, is something like $150/month.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

"up to". the pony express was also up to 105 Mbps. what a colossally bad deal.

 

[vi edit]

How many content providers can even supply data at a fraction of that speed? Sure you can multitask downloads more effectively but it's misleading to think you could get that from a single source.

 

[Texashiker]

Comcast Rolls Out 105Mbps Internet Across the Nation

Across the nation? Its not at my house.

I can not even get dsl at my house, I am about a 1/4 mile past where the line stops. The cable company has a monopoly on high speed internet and provides crappy service because of it.

 

[shocksyde]

How many content providers can even supply data at a fraction of that speed? Sure you can multitask downloads more effectively but it's misleading to think you could get that from a single source.

P2P sharing is the only thing I can think of that could match those speeds.

 

[mmntech]

The caps are there because that speed of Internet access makes their other services redundant. Just add Netflix or Hulu and you could effectively get rid of your cable TV. Installing artificial barriers makes sure you have to keep paying that $60/mo on top of that for all your premium movie channels.

 

[gorcorps]

People here say that if you want to get rid of a cap then you have to pay for it, well I guess $200 still isn't enough. It just shows how retarded these cable companies are.

While I'm certainly on the side of bandwidth caps suck ass (which is why I originally went with U-verse but that didn't last long), it's hard to call what they're doing retarded. We love our internet and they know it. They'll make us pay whatever we're willing to including chunks of data past an arbitrary cap.

 

[darkxshade]

1$/Mbps down is pretty sweet if you don't use up caps... now why won't they just sell me oh 30Mbps down for $30 :whiste:

 

[vi edit]

P2P sharing is the only thing I can think of that could match those speeds.

Yeh, seeded connections were the only things I could think of. Which is a funny sort of irony.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

1$/Mbps down is pretty sweet if you don't use up caps... now why won't they just sell me oh 30Mbps down for $30 :whiste:

derp derp the entire cable industry is based on selling you things you don't use.

 

[spidey07]

Leading the nation in high speed internet. Don't you whiners always complain that they need to upgrade? How's this for massive upgrading! Comcastic indeed.

 

[AMDZen]

MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm Hmmmmmmm

 

[yinan]

FIOS does 150 already.

 

[frostedflakes]

Good for the people in areas where Comcast doesn't bother enforcing the 250GB/mo limit.

Are they going to be offering this in all their DOCSIS 3.0 markets or will availability be pretty limited?

"up to". the pony express was also up to 105 Mbps. what a colossally bad deal.

To be fair, that's how it works in Japan, S Korea, and all those other countries that offer connections people here drool over. With those kind of speeds, often the bottleneck is elsewhere (for example servers not even being able to send data to you at anywhere close to 100Mbps).

 

[Texashiker]

1$/Mbps down is pretty sweet if you don't use up caps... now why won't they just sell me oh 30Mbps down for $30 :whiste:

I would be willing to pay $30 for 3mbps download, that would be better then what I am paying now.

My current isp chargers $30 a month for 70% packet loss in the evening

 

[BrokenVisage]

It's fun for you, it's fun for me, come on everybody do Xfinity!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Good for the people in areas where Comcast doesn't bother enforcing the 250GB/mo limit.

Are they going to be offering this in all their DOCSIS 3.0 markets or will availability be pretty limited?


To be fair, that's how it works in Japan, S Korea, and all those other countries that offer connections people here drool over. With those kind of speeds, often the bottleneck is elsewhere (for example servers not even being able to send data to you at anywhere close to 100Mbps).

legit servers won't feed you that quickly, piracy is actively discouraged (but still used to bait customers), they're trying to kill netflix, youtube has always had issues with comcast, no hosting your own sites, and if they catch you using residential service for commercial applications they will come down on you hard, and a 250GB cap. why is this worth $200?

 

[rivan]

Awesome, so if you DO happen to be able to get content that fast, you could burn through your cap in what, 5 hours?

 

[frostedflakes]

legit servers won't feed you that quickly, piracy is actively discouraged (but still used to bait customers), they're trying to kill netflix, youtube has always had issues with comcast, no hosting your own sites, and if they catch you using residential service for commercial applications they will come down on you hard, and a 250GB cap. why is this worth $200?

Only $105 if you bundle, which a lot of people do. Just saying.

 

[blurredvision]

Having faster speed doesn't mean you'll automatically be downloading more, unless you're constantly downloading shit, at which point you were the reason for the institution of the cap in the first place.

 

[Joseph F]

Across the nation? Its not at my house.

I can not even get dsl at my house, I am about a 1/4 mile past where the line stops. The cable company has a monopoly on high speed internet and provides crappy service because of it.

You and I are in the same boat, my friend. Where I live there is Cable and DSL only one mile away from my house.

Awesome, so if you DO happen to be able to get content that fast, you could burn through your cap in what, 5 hours?

Yeah, but can you imagine: 250GB of pron in 5 hours!

 

[shortylickens]

Only $105 if you bundle, which a lot of people do. Just saying.

105 for internet you wont actually be using is still a shitty deal.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Only $105 if you bundle, which a lot of people do. Just saying.

at $105, it's still $50-60/mo on top of what customers already pay for, and it will add absolutely nothing.

this is what's known as a "value-add" when in fact it's really a "price-jack". added value for me (and the majority of customers) would be the existing service, without the websites, anti-virus and all the other crap bundled in, at a lower price.