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   #9. Posted at 09:26 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
alex666
Aren't even these improved speeds still pretty pathetic compared to what's available in other countries?
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#9, #9 yes they are. got 50Mbps down, and 4mbps for the upload (u...  :  codin  (#22)  «
#9, Yes, they are, the US is very far behind when it comes to ne...  :  d2brothe  (#32)  «
#32, Not really, USA has the best internet infrastructure in t...  :  Krogoth  (#33)  «
#33, Eh.... You're not making any sense. The entire interne...  :  FubbHead  (#40)  «
#32, On what basis? I hear people throw claims around like this...  :  ludi  (#34)  «
#34, Nearly every other country doesn't have to pay for inc...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#35)  «
#35, Bzzzt. By comparison, if there was an argument rega...  :  ludi  (#38)  «
#38, In the US, two people pay for a cell phone to ce...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#41)  «
#41, Speaking as someone who still has a landline,...  :  ludi  (#42)  «

   #39. Posted at 06:33 PM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
evermore
Oooh. 100KBps upload to Comcast's FTP server in NH. Too bad they didn't do that a few years back when it might have been useful to me.
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   #2. Posted at 05:49 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
d2brothe
Ha...at 160 Mbps I wonder how fast you could burn through a 250 GB quota :P.
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#2, I don't know, but I know I've knocked down 1TB+ in a month i...  :  Forge  (#3)  «
#3, I think my Comcast is plain old regular, whatever that is...  :  Ragnar Dan  (#4)  «
#4, Gold package. It's expensive but I beat the money's wo...  :  Forge  (#11)  «
#11, So for those of us with morals, it'd be a waste?  :  Usacomp2k3  (#15)  «
#15, /end ignorant post.  :  Price0331  (#19)  «
#11, Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I don't really download ...  :  Ragnar Dan  (#16)  «
#2, Good luck finding a server that has that much bandwidth. ;)  :  Krogoth  (#12)  «
#12, torrents dont require server bandw mate, just tons of see...  :  codin  (#23)  «
#23, Again, that depends entirely on torrent itself. You wil...  :  Krogoth  (#24)  «
#24, I think if comcast tries to limit me ever, in an ac...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#36)  «
#36, Comcast blinks at you. That wouldn't be a blip o...  :  indeego  (#37)  «
#2, Less than 3.5 hours. Assuming you had a data source that cou...  :  Entroper  (#17)  «

   #20. Posted at 01:48 AM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
Sniper
"That said, we also learned last week that Comcast is evaluating a 250GB monthly bandwidth use quota for heavy users. "

Time Warner is doing the same thing, except with a 40gb per month quota.

All the ISPs are "testing" this out. Before long, we'll all have ISPs with set quotas.

This must be prevented from happening.
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#20, It is the nature of economics of bandwidth. Mainstream broadb...  :  Krogoth  (#25)  «
#25, We've already paid for it through taxes, it was called th...  :  MadManOriginal  (#28)  «
#28, Again, the politics are a lot more complicated. It is ...  :  Krogoth  (#30)  «
#30, Still doesn't answer why they don't just terminate ...  :  MadManOriginal  (#31)  «

   #29. Posted at 08:52 AM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
timbits
this upstream increase hasn't hit northwest washington yet. I'm eagerly awaiting them getting around to it sometime around 2011.
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   #10. Posted at 09:44 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
That's nice, but the caps aren't. I still say screw Comcast if they decide to roll out the caps nationwide. What I don't get is how are they both upgrading the service and deciding to implement caps? Upgraded service implies the infrastructure can handle it, since the supposed basis for the caps was that bandwidth hogs hurt other user's speeds. I think this is just a feely-good marketing ploy because upload still matters a lot less for the majority of users, the possibility of caps for all users is more telling.
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#10, Meh, I still think they're doing what they've been doing all...  :  Prospero424  (#14)  «
#14, Oh, I agree and have said the same things before. The ISP...  :  MadManOriginal  (#27)  «

   #21. Posted at 02:20 AM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
Sniper
Also, it's pretty obvious they're increasing speeds so that users hit their monthly caps FASTER.
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#21, That is faulty logic there. It is practically the same as bl...  :  Krogoth  (#26)  «

   #18. Posted at 12:42 AM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
zqw
The free upstream boost happened in early April in Minneapolis, I guess this is the national change.
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   #13. Posted at 10:22 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
Prospero424
Well, with this, Comcast just saved themselves a customer. I had recently gotten fed up with their morbidly anemic (relatively) upload speeds and their customer-unfriendly business practices.

But I saw this today and I realized that I still had all of my upstream transfers capped at a total of 40KBps, shut off the throttles, and sure enough I was getting 120KBps!

Very nice to occasionally get something for nothing...
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   #5. Posted at 08:03 PM on Jun 12th 2008, Edited at 08:04 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
Nelliesboo
I have been able to hold 1.5 - 2.2KB/s down since Jan.
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#5, 1.5-2.2KB/s? That's terrible. Do you mean Mbps?  :  sreams  (#6)  «
#6, yea  :  Nelliesboo  (#7)  «
#7, I've had 16/2 and regularly download over 2mb/s for ab...  :  nstuff  (#8)  «

   #1. Posted at 05:10 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
FWIW, I've got the 2MBps upstream already, and have had it for a few weeks at least. I noticed when I grabbed a torrent (don't do that often) and realized I was DLing at 300KB/s. I then noticed that upstream was pegged between 250-300KB/s.

Usenet is still a good solid 2MB/s down sustained, and I care about that more.
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