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Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds

Posted by kdawson on from the time-for-fios-leapfrog dept.

An anonymous reader notes that Comcast is offering a new 50-Mbps / 6-Mbps package for residential customers for $150, starting in Minneapolis-St. Paul and extending nationwide by mid-2010. The new service will use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard, which is nearing ratification. We've recently discussed Comcast's BitTorrent throttling and promise to quit it, and their low-quality 'HD' programming. How attractive will $150 for 50 Mbps be compared to Verizon's FiOS offerings?

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  1. Re:WoW by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    You also forgot, it's also probably not 50mbps.

    They sell the "8meg" tier here but the pipe to the headend cant handle the 8meg so if you do any speed tests OUTSIDE their reccomended you never get more than 4.4-5.

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  2. Re:How attractive compared to FIOs? by BoberFett · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wish I could get FIOS in Minneapolis, but I doubt it's going to happen any time soon. I cancelled Comcast for being such a crappy ISP a couple years ago and went with 1.5M/768K DSL. It's slower, but the service is far better.

    At any rate, I'm not going back to Comcast even if they offer me 150/50. They're a horrible company to deal with.