Comcast to Roll Out 50Mb/s Service
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DOCSIS 3.0 has been a standard that, for many, was pie-in-the-sky. Now Comcast announces the service will soon be available in the land of Minnesota. To be specific, the service will begin in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with promised speed of 50 Mb/s.
The promised speed comes at quite a price, however, as it will be priced at $150 per month for non-commercial users, and $200 per month for business. That’s some heavy outlay for something that will, surely be questioned as to its efficacy, because the 150Mb/s pipe will not extend to every location one might want to contact. For consumers, this will only make sense if several computers are accessing the internet concurrently, all expecting to max out each individual computer’s download speed.
Comcast will be opening up the speed on all of their accounts, although the increments are small, and mostly in the up direction.
It will be interesting to see how well this will materialize, and how much more Comcast is willing to ratchet up the speed, as DOCSIS is theoretically capable of 160Mb/s. One thing is for sure, it has run out of excuses to throttle P2P traffic on the basis of total speed available to its customer base. Perhaps the whole throttling scenario was simply an advertising pointer to the new services.
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[tags] Comcast, DOCSIS 3.0, Twin Cities speed, cable modem, ISP, Verizon FiOS [/tags]


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April 3rd, 2008
at 8:04am
[...] Read the rest of this great post here [...]
Blahshead
April 3rd, 2008
at 7:47pm
All I know is that if I lived in Minneapolis, I would use satellite, but NEVER comcast, yuch!
Cris DeRaud
April 4th, 2008
at 9:28am
Your heading in the Pirillo’s Picks says “Comcast is rolling out 50MB/s service” while the article says 50Mb/s.
I think we have the classic megabyte/megabit confusion going on here.
the oracle
April 4th, 2008
at 10:53am
Cris DeRaud - my post had the correct letter (b), so the RSS aggregator might be the problem. Or it could be the dreaded human error.
Most will, I’m sure know that the large B is incorrect, and, at this time, impossible.