Comcast Prepping 100Mbps Cable Modems
This post was published 1 year 11 months 9 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Comcast has revealed its plans to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 that will allow connection speeds up to 160Mbps down and 120Mbps up.
Even though Comcast isn’t saying where it’ll fall, markets where there’s FiOS are probably going to continue having all of the fat pipe fortune—competition is good for people in those areas, bad for the rest of us. Now for the real bad news:
The upstream magic—where cable is so sorely gimped right now—is going to remain hobbly, at least at first. And it’s not ’cause Comcast is incompetent (for a change). As “a reflection of the status of upstream channel bonding technology” we won’t see upstream on steroids until deep into 2008 or even 2009. Consequently, while downstream’s getting a Rosie O’ Donnell plumping with initial offerings in the 20-50Mbps range—what Verizon’s offering now—upstream speeds still aren’t going to stack up, dulling the competitive edge DOCSIS 3.0 was supposed to bring against fiber.
I don’t know about you but I would LOVE a 160Mbps connection.
Geez, what’s that going to cost?
Mmmm I am in a FiOS area where they offer 20/5 for $55 a month. Heres to hoping that comcast gets the memo and ups us to that. They are just barely holding onto a string.
I dont know about you, but I would love a 20Mbps connection! 160 would be nuts, but for some reason you cannot get that in San Francisco, but you can get it in Waco, Texas…
Anything over 1MB downloading/uploading speed is good enough for me :) unfortunely i’m doomed to 256kbps right now.
I want better upload speeds. Sick and tired of getting near 50KB/s and the internet comes crashing down.
What good is a huge pipe with Comcast? All that means is that I’ll hit their download cap a lot sooner.
FiOS is just beautiful. :)