Comcast to raise download to 3Mbps

[tedinde]

Talked to a friend of mine in Philly, he told me he pays $55 per month for comcast internet. I pay $41.95

What's everyone else paying on here?? If i may ask?? Kinda funny they charge different prices!!!!

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: tedinde
Talked to a friend of mine in Philly, he told me he pays $55 per month for comcast internet. I pay $41.95

What's everyone else paying on here?? If i may ask?? Kinda funny they charge different prices!!!!

$10 more a month if you are not a cable subscriber...

I pay about $42...bought my own modem so I don't have to lease one from them...

 

[nickmarine]

Wow!,

This should be great for porn, I mean homework
I mean porn, who am I kidding

Nick

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: Hachuu
Any news for the Santa Clara/San Jose, CA area?

No speed increase in Half Moon Bay yet.

 

[merlink]

3MB upgrade *confirmed* in Indianapolis, Indiana:

2004-01-06 09:56:08 EST: 2999 / 207
Your download speed : 2999435 bps, or 2999 kbps.
A 366.1 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 207125 bps, or 207 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

All downloads are pretty consistently around 360k/s.

-Merlin

 

[Entity]

Seattle seems to still be at 1.5/256.

 

[UTmtnbiker]

Anybody in Salt Lake City seen the increase to 3Mbps? I've been checking on and off for about a month and I'm still stuck at 1.8Mbps.

I know it can't be my modem as I've powered it up/down a couple of times and I used to hit 3.0Mbps+ when I used the same modem in the good 'ol days of @Home.

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: MJGunn
Damn, they upped my cap about 2 weeks ago (this was in central NJ), but, as others have complained about, for the last few days, my internet has been slow as s***. How long did this last for you guys?

Central NJ here. Got the upgrade couple of weeks ago and speeds are fine.

 

[KRaZeE]

Harrisburg, PA here. Looks like the upgrade has gone through. No reboot of my modem, but NewsBin Pro is spankin along at 2.7M steady. Hi ho a.b.v.x

 

[dakata24]

Originally posted by: tedinde
Talked to a friend of mine in Philly, he told me he pays $55 per month for comcast internet. I pay $41.95

What's everyone else paying on here?? If i may ask?? Kinda funny they charge different prices!!!!

$29.99/mo without cable tv for a year. did the 6 months @ 19.95 and was offered that price when i was going to cancel.

 

[DefDC]

For the last 2 months my speeds have been as slow as dirt during peak times here in South Bend, IN. I'm lucky if I rate <200kps... My upload is usually faster than my download! They keep telling me that they "are working on it". That doesn't give me much faith considering that availablilty was only "2 weeks away" for a year and a half...

 

[weepul]

when will berkeley upgrade?!?!?! bay area was due weeks ago. other parts of bay area seems to have been upgraded... but what happened to berkeley?!?!

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[mithrandir2001]

We've obviously been upgraded in the Philly area...just got 3232kbps on the ol' DSLReports speedtest. I have seen d/l's from Microsoft exceeding 600Kb/sec. Of course, this is about the speed we had when service was delivered by @Home. (Remember them?)

 

[Joker81]

i get about 1.7Mb/s in seattle just a hair over 200KB/s. i reset my modem every day hoping for the cap increase.

 

[MJGunn]

Relax, they send you an e-mail when it happens

 

[weepul]

grrrrr, i just checked. they lowered the # of free promotion months of $20 to 3 or 4. grrrrr.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Epsil0n00]

Originally posted by: Packy

Portland, OR 01/20/04

Whoop!

I am also in Portland... I just tested the connection and it is at 1.7Down / 256 Up
I rebooted modem and... no change.

Guess I was just getting anxious. I'll have to try it again on the 20th.

Epsil0n

 

[Tiembo]

Originally posted by: MJGunn
Relax, they send you an e-mail when it happens

Never got an email here, just power cycled every few days to see if anything's changed.

 

[morkinva]

I'm not gonna read this whole thread, but did anyone notice the increased webspace? I used to have 25MB total, now I seem to have 25MB per username

 

[Tiembo]

Originally posted by: morkinva
I'm not gonna read this whole thread, but did anyone notice the increased webspace? I used to have 25MB total, now I seem to have 25MB per username

I thought it used to be 10MB per username, up to 6 usernames?

25MB per is pretty cool though.

 

[happybob]

anyone in the nashville area noticing a bandwidth increase yet? i just checked mine, and nothing, still same 1.4 - 1.5Mbps. sucks...

 

[TheCoop]

Originally posted by: happybob
anyone in the nashville area noticing a bandwidth increase yet? i just checked mine, and nothing, still same 1.4 - 1.5Mbps. sucks...

did you unplug the modem and wait for five minutes and then repower it back up? That is the only way it will get reset.

 

[happybob]

yeah i did, but no difference. does it matter what kind of cable modem you have? mine is a motorola sb4100, so an older model. does that matter?

TheCoop, are you in nashville?

 

[vshah]

for speed tests...i just download some big file like the dx sdk from microsoft...i'm on the east cost and easily have gotten 4 mb/s from them

 

[cyfan2001]

Ditto that. I've had similar trouble for months. Some advice.

1) They can see how strong the signal is to your cable modem. This should indicate right off if there is a problem.
2) They will want you to reboot the cable modem to "clear the cache". This is a red herring...bunch of crap.
3) Buy a signal booster. It may not solve the problem but it reduced the problem for me. My TV comes in better now too.
4) ASK FOR A REFUND for that day. Apparently they will give you a credit if you ask. Although magically their billing department is open about 2 hours a day.
5) Call them everytime there's a problem and make them come fix it. They were out to my neighborhood 3 times before they got it right. They know there are problems...but if you don't complain, they don't care.


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Originally posted by: Salvador

still no updated speeds in the chicago area, however talked to a comcast rep...

You know.. My internet speed is fast enough. Sure, a speed increase would be nice, but...

What really pisses me off is that I have experienced a ton of problems with my internet in the past month or so. Either really slow speeds or service outages which sometimes require me to unplug my modem and reboot everything. This happened again this morning. I was without internet until a few hours ago. Comcast=Suck as far as I'm concerned.

Sal