Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL

bigtallmofo writes "In a move sure to be applauded by DDoS botnet owners everywhere, news.com.com is reporting that Comcast is raising the speed of its cable Internet offerings. The standard rate will change from 3 Mbps downstream and 256 Kbps upstream to 4 Mbps downstream and 384 Kbps upstream. Customers that currently pay extra for faster service will see a 50% speed increase over what they have today to 6 Mbps downstream and 768 Kbps upstream." Combine this move with the VoIP announcement and the rumblings about more Baby Bell mergers -- we should see an...interesting landscape soon.

Comments

Holy cow

[BlkSprk]

Thank god I chose Comcast and scoffed at my folks for getting DSL. ::dials comcast and orders the extra service:: Porn is now even faster.

But wait...

[nightgrave]

I still can't even get DSL yet... I'd sell my soul to them if they'd just bring cable out here...

Dear Comcast,

[Anonymous Coward]

I apologize for moving away on you. Now that I live in Eastern CT I'm stuck with a crappy cable company, ECC. Would you please gobble up this pathetic company into your growing empire. And while you're at it would you please allow people to run servers at home with that 384 up bandwidth. I'd much rather host my own website than be forced to just share torrents all day. Oh and I promise not to extract any HD content from the new Motorola 6412

Thank you,
A former and soon hopefully future Comcast disciple.

Re:Hidden cap

[moonbender]

If anything, you should get a letter for downloading VCD Telesyncs. Eugh.

Re:Ok thats nice for all "comcast pro" people.

[cwj123]

You've obviously never made a completely ridiculous decree before.

Re:neeeeerrrrrrrds!!!!!

[kaustik]

That really should have stayed in Vegas. I feel like less of a person having just glanced at the thumbs...