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Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps
nandemoari alerts us to news over at DSLReports that Cablevision will be offering subscribers 101-Mbps download service, a new US record. That's fast enough to download an HD movie in less than 10 minutes. The package, known as "Ultra," will launch on May 11 and will cost $99.95 a month. Upload speed is 15 Mbps and there are no monthly limits. Cablevision is also doubling the speed of its Wi-Fi service, which is available free to subscribers using hotspots across the Northeast. "...the company will be launching a new 'Ultra' tier on May 11. The new tier features speeds of 101Mbps downstream and 15Mbps upstream for $99.95 a month. That's an unprecedented amount of speed at an unprecedented price, suggesting that Cablevision just took the gloves off in their fight against Verizon FiOS. ... Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees."
I know Verizon is exempt from any and all cases of domestic spying (which has kept me away from fIoS)
Does anybody know Cablevision's deal with Congress?
OK, so they double-bond cable modems, giving you twice the usual speed to your desktop. Then you get on the same clogged, shared network as the rest of your neighborhood, and hope they have enough bandwidth upstream to handle the potential doubling of clients (from double-bonding). In a dense residential area (urban apartment buildings for example), I have never seen a cable company actually be able to back up their claims of speed, upload or download.
To me, this sounds as bogus as the dual-bond 56K modems where you had to buy two phone-lines just for data, and then you would want one for voice, and heck maybe even a fourth for FAX.
What's next, a seven-bladed razor?
Now all we need is for Cablevision to drop the price by one order of magnitude. Then we can be competitive with South Korea!
Oh, and for all of you in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, I hate you. I hate you from the depths of the Charter service area, in the midwest. Bastards.
Cablevision also appears to have installed an ISP caching system they market as "expresslink":
http://www.optimum.com/online/expresslink.jsp
So far, I have not noticed any ill effects of this, but it doesn't appear to be something you can opt-out of. So, even though you have a 100 mbps pipe, you may not be pulling content directly from the originating web site.
Something to keep in mind when deciding to become a Cablevision customer.
-ted
High-Speed Nitro ($249.00)
Yes, but are they rolling full IPv6 support, too? I couldn't care less about 100mbit speeds if I'm so NATted that most applications where I could make use of it don't work
I did read about an irrigation authority that was suing a farmer because he installed too efficient of a rain water catching system on his land. They said that the rain water should be flowing to the irrigation system or the water table and the farmer should then get his allocation from the authority. This was in central Washington IIRC. In central WA, all politics are water.
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
I routinely get above my rated line speed from my ISP for down/up. Sadly since I am at the threshold for their DSL service it's 1024/512, but still, that I routinely pull 1060, I'll not bitch about it. They also have stunning customer support, no caps that I need worry about at my speed, and no overage charges even if you do exceed a cap.
Per the CSR:
At your speed you will never hit the cap, even 24/7. If you move to where you can get 10/5 then you could hit the cap. If you did, the first time you would get a note on your bill informing you that the next time you exceed the cap you will be throttled to 5/2.5, then 2/1, then 1/.512 where you will stay till the next cycle. This throttling is in 1 gig blocks.
Basically this means if you exceed the cap of ~100 GB, then your connection will slow down. If you notice it and pause your torrents then the rest of your month should be fine for everything else. If you don't notice they'll slow you down till you do notice, but at no time are you cut below 1 meg down, and they don't charge overages. It's the most sane plan I've seen yet. Also off the record he requested I use uTorrent or another program with internal throttling and gave me times they would like to see reduced bandwidth consumption, which indecently would keep you from mathematically hitting the caps unless you really did fully saturate your downloads for the entire month. And as a coup he noted a website internal to the company that you could pull deb/ubuntu distros and packages from without bandwidth counting.
The big assed downside? Cost. My 1024/512 costs $45.00/month 10/5 costs $99/month if you live close enough to get it. Still, at least they are sane with their TOU and enforcement policies.
-nB
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GP is most likely talking about a community that has all of its infrastructure (schools, commercial centers, utilities, police/fire, etc.) designed and constructed at roughly the same time, instead of the more traditional organic growth model that characterizes most areas.
One example of a planned community that I used to live near is Ashburn Village, in Virginia.
Now I need to find a town [...] to move to...
Anywhere in Japan.