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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. 50Mbit up/down in Utah by nilbog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't know why Slashdot didn't publish my submission about a Utah ISP offering 50Mbit Up/Down connections. It's faster than both comcast and FiOS, they undersell their bandwidth so I regularly peak over 50Mbit on uploads and downloads, and it only costs me $50/mo. But I guess it's news that Comcast is offering sub-par service for 3 times as much.

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