Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 17, 2005 @04:00AM from the the-battle-continues-on-and-on-and-on-and-on dept.

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.

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Re:invisible bandwidth caps by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 04:20 · Score: -1, Redundant

there are no bandwidth caps, you DSL troll.
DSL sucks.

I could be on my Windows box downloading, on my Linux box grabbing security updates, and on Xbox Live! playing Counter-Strike then my DSL would be maxed out.