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Comcast Announces 50Mbps/10Mbps Premium Service for $140/Month
Posted 10/23/08 at 10:38:57 AM | by Paul Lilly
Comcast is in the news again, but this time it has nothing to do with throttling connections or those ever-unpopular bandwidth limits. Instead, the ISP has announced it is rolling out DOCSIS 3.0 'wideband' internet service, giving (er, selling) subscribers up to 50Mbps downstream and 10Mpbs upstream.
At those speeds, Comcast puts itself nearly on par with Verizon's FiOS service, who's top-tier package offers the same downstream but twice the upstream at 20Mbps. But a key difference lies in compatibility. DOCSIS 3.0 means that cable operators don't have to install new lines and instead can use existing infrastructure.
The Extreme 50 service, as Comcast is calling it, will run $140 per month for residential subscribers and $190 per month for businesses. According to Comcast, Extreme 50 customers will be able to download a high-definition movie in about 16 minutes. Initial availability is limited to subscribers in parts of New England, Philadelphia, and New Jersey, with a planned expansion to more than 10 million homes and business by the end of the year.
Would you be willing to pay $140 per month for 50Mpbs/10Mbps? Hit the jump and let us know.
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Comments Print Email HELL NO! Too expensive, they
Submitted by Pyrophorics on Mon, 2008-10-27 09:17
HELL NO! Too expensive, they dont have the proper equipment to handle the bandwidth they offer now so they have to cap ... and the cap is still effective at the higher speed.
Price way too high.......
Submitted by ghot on Sat, 2008-10-25 01:31
Price is way too high, I get 20/20 FIOS for 64.99/month. And, as some have said.....
They can't supply that speed with current infrastructure, and they still have the 250Gb/month cap.
Submitted by rhbright on Thu, 2008-10-23 21:11
Hell, I'd give several left-side body parts for that kind of speed!
I might
Submitted by afroloop on Thu, 2008-10-23 12:49
I might consider it, it sounds nice. My company also lets me expense my Net connection so there's that.
Submitted by damicatz on Thu, 2008-10-23 12:45
The infrastructure can't support those speeds even with DOCSIS 3..
You want to know why cable companies have issues with capacity? It's because they keep moving up the speed caps and allowing people more speed without upgrading their infrastructure. And then when problems start to occur as a result, they blame heavy downloaders and institute caps.
Stop overselling your bandwidth in a failed attempt to compete.
How many of you have
Submitted by horzo on Thu, 2008-10-23 12:38
How many of you have actually reached the 250GB/mo. limit? I'm a pretty heavy user (including plenty of P2P) and I've never heard a peep from Comcast. Anyway...$140/month? Makes sense if you've got multiple high-bandwidth streams going at once, but I suspect most sites wouldn't allow you to even approach a 50Mb download rate. The upstream rate is kinda cool. I would need a static IP or two included with the package before I'd even consider it.
Submitted by zodi on Thu, 2008-10-23 11:12
Probably have the same limit, and are finding new ways to secretly throttle your connection for P2P or any other "bandwidth hogging behaviour"
YEah whatever comcrap. The
Submitted by gatorXXX on Thu, 2008-10-23 10:22
YEah whatever comcrap. The limit is still 250GB and with faster speeds, only means you'll reach the limit 3 times as fast! So NO, I will not pay them another dime.
Submitted by ghot on Thu, 2008-10-23 09:41
No way! FIOS is cheaper and has no bandwidth caps so far. The Verizon supplied router, DOES however have only a 160 slot NAT table. But thats not really an issue as you can change the router out, or skip it altogether.
We don't all have the choice
Submitted by cigar3tte on Thu, 2008-10-23 12:24
We don't all have the choice to switch to FIOS. This new Comcast offer should be more available based on the article, since no new infrastructure is needed.
Why is the 160 slot NAT
Submitted by jcollins on Thu, 2008-10-23 10:48
Why is the 160 slot NAT table a problem? I'm thinking 160 slots = 160 IP's for devices in your home, so I must be missing something.
Submitted by mls067 on Thu, 2008-10-23 17:06
couldn't you subnet those IP's if you really needed to also?
Submitted by billysundays on Thu, 2008-10-23 09:34
No, I wouldn't. The bandwidth cap is still 250GB per month. BTW, has anyone in the MaxPC staff noticed that the paragraphs in posted comments aren't breaking? Appreciate the new listing of allowed HTML tags though.
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