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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."
Now I need to find a town with Cablevision service to move to...
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Traffic shaping! It's fine if they do or don't do it, but will companies PLEASE start being up-front about it? Put as much spin on the damn thing as you want, just at least mention it if you're doing it.
Stuff.
They still don't offer NFL Network so, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!
Either they're really going to regret promising that, or they're hiding some dirty little secret...
Don't get ready to move across the country for this service just yet. This is just the beginning. DOCSIS 3.0 is the new standard that supports bonding together traditional cable modem channels to support these kinds of speeds, and the equipment that supports it is currently in late development stages and is being tested by all of the major cable operators. You are going to see a lot more announcements like this one over the next few years, possibly in your area.
(As always...) there you go, fixed that for you.
Please don't use "umm" or "err" or "erm".
The last Cablevision subscriber I saw was a friend who had a Windows machine plugged in directly into the small cable modem, with a world-routable IP address. The machine was idle and the modem was blinking constantly during the whole time I was there, without any one logged it. Needless to say, my friend complained his machine was "starting to get slow". Translation: the machine was pwnd.
I shudder at the thought of having botnets take hold of vulneratble machines sitting on 100 Mbit/s pipes.
Fantasy: http://ferrisfantasy.blogspot.com/
We've already had this discussion. A company improving their service or product offerings by impetus of competition is a fiction. If the government doesn't force them, subsidize it or directly provide it, it won't happen. Period, the end.
You may now commence sticking your fingers in your ears and going "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA" until Congress or some other branch of government takes credit for this.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Time Warner has no influence over Cablevision, other than being "buddy buddy" with them.
Each has their own monopoly over their given geographic area. In fact, the big boys (and CV is DEFINATELY one of them, not a "little guy" by ANY means!) have their own effective cartel with CableLabs.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
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?
I suspect this offer from Cablevision won't last long, and $99 is ridiculously overpriced for something that ought to be nearly free like air and water.
Water isn't free. You pay for clean water via your taxes and/or water bill. Or you buy it bottled.
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
On the other hand, we don't have to live in Romania, which to me is a fantastic trade-off for less convenient pirating abilities.
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?
Your infrastructure went from nearly nothing to nearly state of the art. Your infrastructure was developed in the U.S. When you have to upgrade because what you have doesn't work that is one thing. The infrastructure in the U.S. is gradually upgraded so, you have to pay for the existing before you can upgrade. This infrastructure is costly to keep up with. A moving target is much more costly than a fixed one.
At some point the broadband in the U.S. will pass you up but, it will be in the future when yours is aging.
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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.
A hundred bucks a month for internet service is insane. For that kind of money a customer service rep should come over every other week and give me a blow job.
A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection.
Water isn't free. You pay for clean water via your taxes and/or water bill. Or you buy it bottled.
Isn't it amazing how some people act like water falls free from the sky.
Then you want Baseball.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
"UP TO" means that they're advertising that speed, but their TOS will say that they don't guarantee that you'll actually get that. I have found with the various ISPs I've had that download is usually 75-90% what they advertise and upload is 40-60%, which is pretty galling, considering I would much more prefer a faster upload than download.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
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)
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.
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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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Now if they offered this in the SF Bay area and had static IPs I'd get it.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Who hasn't?
Water isn't free. You pay for clean water via your taxes and/or water bill. Or you buy it bottled.
Isn't it amazing how some people act like water falls free from the sky.
I know that was said as a joke, but in many communities around the country a normal property owner may not have rights to the surface water on their land (including rainfall).
No change for NYC (At lease where you'd want to live...)
You're still stuck with Time Warner for cable.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/images/charts/franchise_territories.jpg
considering I would much more prefer a faster upload than download.
I'm reporting you to the RIAA, you filthy scene pirate!
They will have a smaller pool to monitor. Who else would pay $100/month other than the P2P users? Cablevision is also the perfect company for RIAA because they already demonstrated that they are scared shitless of getting into trouble. They have an office actually sending warning letters to users who download copyrighted material via P2P.
The cable modem they're using has a gigabit port.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/video/ps8611/ps8675/ps8676/ps8678/product_data_sheet0900aecd8072a168.pdf
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
...and it's AK-HI-FL!
[I'm not shouting, but I am quoting someone who's shouting. Someone please tell the lameness filter.]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
We complain about it because people in other countries are getting far higher internet speeds for the money we currently pay for much lower internet speeds.
It's like complaining about the price of a Cadillac or Viper, and then finding out in Europe they can buy them for the price of a Honda.
A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection.
...I have a 100/100 Mbps connection with no limits at a monthly cost of $21/month. That includes up to 1 GB of complementary web hosting (albeit with a crappy url) and some other small goodies. Seeing costs the like of ~$100/month just makes me laugh, really, since us Swedes paid about $25 for 100/100 Mbps connections ten years ago.
I can't get cable or DSL where I am, I'm 1/3 of a mile from the nearest cable box and still can't get comcast to extend the line to our neighborhood!
How about settling on 3Mb/s to all of us instead of 100Mb/s to some and 56Kb/s to the rest of us?
How did the UK force BT to offer these services to everyone and the US can't be bothered?