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Comcast to raise download to 3Mbps

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I'd settle for the old 1.5GB Comcast digital, my little town in Central Coastal CA doesn't have any to offer, so I am lucky I guess to get Verizon DSL at 768/128 (ex GTE).
 
Hmmm... Oregon is not listed. 🙁
I wonder if I should expect an upgrade any time soon?

Does anyone know where the original list is located? I'm hoping they will provide this upgrade to all their regions.

 
Originally posted by: ETan
I'm still on a $19.99 plan with Comcast... great download speed, must say (Pittsburgh).

What can I do to get a lower price than pay their regular $50 or so per month starting next month when my promotional period ends?
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Anyone has an idea as to how I can get Comcast to charge me less than $45? Or, is it pretty usual for them to "forget" to raise prices after promotional period?

 
Originally posted by: Mehdi

Hmmm... Oregon is not listed. 🙁
I wonder if I should expect an upgrade any time soon?

Does anyone know where the original list is located? I'm hoping they will provide this upgrade to all their regions.
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Portland, OR 01/20/04

Portland is under Mountain rather than West
 
Adelphia is wonderful, had powerlink for at least a year now, speeds around 400kB/sec all the time.

The upload is the crap end of the stick though, 128k/bit.
 
I'm located in west Texas city with around 90K people and we've had Cox 3Mbit down/256K up for 6+ months now. It's nice to see the rest of the country upgrading their network.

2003-12-10 02:38:26 EST: 3375 / 256
Your download speed : 3375215 bps, or 3375 kbps.
A 412 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 256016 bps, or 256 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/3375215;256016;c87b262af434a888f14cfcff96fdc537;2.0;dfw.speakeasy.net/1071041906

😉
 
Originally posted by: Yobbo
Gotta love college's OC12 or whatever the hell they use here (10megaBYTES/s) 🙂
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OC12 = 622Mbps

most likely you'll use a PC, which will have a NIC (10/100) - most likely 100Mbps, which you share with thousands of other students ... go figure!
 
Originally posted by: RDMustang1

My downlink is filled to capacity 24/7 and has been for the last 4 years and I've never received any complaints (although wasn't with comcast until about a year ago). I also love the unlimited usenet too (previous attbi customer - gradnfather clause)

EDIT: I am near the Dallas area and no speed increase yet.. Heard about this over 6 months ago and can't wait (if it ever comes here)...
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What's this grandfather clause and how does it work? I thought I was stuck with a crappy 1 GB per month from the the comcast giganews server, unless I pay more. I want my unlimited attbi usenet back!!!
 
SenorBiggles:

If you were an earlier ATTBI customer, try setting up your newsreader with "netnews.comcast.net" as the server.
 
We have been "DONE" here in Savannah, GA since 10/03 eh? BWHAHAHA ... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... Now if THAT isn't a LOAD OF BS.
They have a SMALL part of the downtown area done... the rest is waiting... middle 04 they said...
 
I'm in central CT and haven't noticed any difference (other than the upcoming price boost). The real crimp is the upload cap, which throttles back bit torrent transfers.

 
Question:
1) Can an existing Comcast cable internet customer still go thru Staples and get the $150 rebate and 3 months at $19.99?

If not: any suggestion on how to get CS to lower monthly rate?

Thanks.
 
It happened here in MD about 3 weeks ago, I love it! Now only if they could raise the upstream comcast would be perfect! 😀
 
Originally posted by: dquan97
In Sacramento, CA. Still at 1.5Mbits 🙁
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Yeh, me too... Still the same, Good ol' 1.5MBits :frown:

If they increase yours, please PM me or post here 😀
 
The schedule Comcast has out for the upgrade is not official. They are doing upgrades on a per node basis. Central Jerz was suppsed to be done by now, but they haven't gotten around to the node I'm on. Either way, the dl cap cable modem companies are putting is total BS. IMO, cable modem providers are trying to get as many ppl as they can while they know they can't handle all of the users. Even though comcast is raising the speed from 1.5 to 3, IMO its a competition thing with DSL so they can get more customers by saying they are faster then DSL...best bang for the buck.
 
Originally posted by: dailyfreestuff
ugh, wish we had comcast around the tahoe area, its charter here, and its quite slow for me..
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I'm in Wisconsin and our charter servive was recently upgraded to 3mbps.

(Please don't take this as a nod towards Charter. I think they suck compared to my last ISP--TimeWarner. On RR, I could actually use the newsgroups and they didn't block every port known to man. And their smtp server didn't mysterious stop working intermittently.)

TimeWarner just upgraded their service to 3mbps as well. I thought I read on DSLReports.com that SBC was doing it as well. It seems like providers are pretty much either raising to 3mbps or losing customers in droves.... Go capitalism! LOL! 😀
 
Originally posted by: RDMustang1


My downlink is filled to capacity 24/7 and has been for the last 4 years and I've never received any complaints (although wasn't with comcast until about a year ago). I also love the unlimited usenet too (previous attbi customer - gradnfather clause)

EDIT: I am near the Dallas area and no speed increase yet.. Heard about this over 6 months ago and can't wait (if it ever comes here)...
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Oh man, they must LOVE you! 😉
 
Phila Metro, PA 12/01/03 -


Yup...just about right 🙂.

Amazing, considering that Comcast's main market is Philadelphia and people have had the speeds for two months already.
 
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