Jul -- Computers and Technology: Comcast to offer 105mbps service next month

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:15:48 AM

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It sounded good until the $200/month part, and says nothing about whether there's a bandwidth limit

(there's a 50Mbps service with only 100GB/month around here, so ...)

Still, you can't get anything near that here even if you were willing to spend $200/month

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:17:08 AM

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Kinda revolves around Google's attempts at gigabit broadband service but I never heard a quote on how expensive it'd be. If Google thrusts that for 99 a month or so, uncapped, you can guarantee Comcast just lost the war.

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:31:05 AM

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This is remarkably aggrivating given certain other countries have comparable speeds with far lower prices.

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:39:12 AM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
This is remarkably aggrivating given certain other countries have comparable speeds with far lower prices.

100 megs at ~24 or so a month comparably in Sweden/Japan, I believe.

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:39:15 AM

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	Cox offers 10 mbps as their base, thats plenty for me. They just updated their digital cable menus, too. It looks nice. I don't even think anything but Cox is offered here, as far as cable companies go. ____________________

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:39:54 AM

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My 12 meg service is enough for me at 45 a month. 1.4MB/s max downloads? I don't really need much faster.

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:41:21 AM

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It's more the fact that we have to pay more for worse service than anywhere else, all while being told "It's the newest and fastest ever!".

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:42:34 AM

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Yea, but at the same time it doesn't take as much to get smaller countries up to speed than it does us.

But like we really put priority on technology in the grand scheme of things.

And we wonder why Japan's beating the crap out of us in that regard.

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:43:48 AM (last edited by Milly at 05-26-10 10:44 PM)

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Originally posted by Hiryuu
Originally posted by Xkeeper
This is remarkably aggrivating given certain other countries have comparable speeds with far lower prices.
100 megs at ~24 or so a month comparably in Sweden/Japan, I believe.

And that's 100Mbps for both download and upload, with unlimited bandwidth ...

Compare that to the 1Mbps upload available here

(but some countries are still worse)

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:52:33 AM

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	Wow, I didn't notice the up speed so low. Thats ridiculous, the only reason you would need that much bandwidth is for hosting and you would need that much for up, not just down. ____________________

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Posted on 05-27-10 01:53:04 AM

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The other difference is that we have no competition here via government-granted monopolies.

Every other decent country has many, many competing internet services.

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Posted on 05-27-10 02:09:55 AM

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America is a very stupid country as far as telecommunications go.

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Posted on 05-27-10 10:26:33 AM

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
America is a very stupid country as far as telecommunications go.

I can say it's not any better up north.

Basically take whatever you get in the US, and slap a crappy bandwidth cap on it

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Posted on 05-27-10 04:50:18 PM

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I'm simply wondering this:

Where did that extra 5 MBPS come from?! I'm thinking it's room for overhead, but still!

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Posted on 05-27-10 05:22:23 PM

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While I'm fine with my ~3Mbit connection, it would be nice if the really high bandwidth options other countries have were available here at a reasonable price. In this neighborhood the best you can get is with the cable company though, and they're rather pricey, and the service sucks. Most services in this area are unmaintained because it's close to the ghetto. We just got stable AT&T cellular service a couple years ago, and we still don't have fios available.

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Posted on 05-27-10 05:35:46 PM

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	Originally posted by Aerakin Originally posted by Metal_Man88 America is a very stupid country as far as telecommunications go. I can say it's not any better up north. Basically take whatever you get in the US, and slap a crappy bandwidth cap on it And having politicians that bend over every chance they get and ignore their own people doesn't help. ____________________ <@Bitmap> Be completely humble and gentle; <@Bitmap> And tell them to shut the fuck up

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Posted on 05-28-10 03:25:06 AM

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I had Comcast for a few years, and always thought it cost too much (except toward the beginning when I took adventage of a promotion for new customers). At least once, they said they'd lower my rates and then raised them

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Posted on 05-30-10 11:43:50 PM (last edited by FieryIce at 05-30-10 08:51 PM)

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I have Sprint and I'm paying 60 per month and all I get is around 100kb/s download speeds at most. :/ I'm near Philly and I generally get good signal (although sometimes it drops entirely to 1XRTT and crashes

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Posted on 05-31-10 01:06:34 AM

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My internet is better than most in the US, I think. Yay living in a city.

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