Comcast Goes Extreme With 105 Mbps Service

[retirepresident]

Comcast is losing huge large subscribers base. Last year Comcast lose over 2 mil subscribers. That what happen when GOOD OLD CORP gets GREED. China offer up 100mbps and down 50mbps for 50 per month 5-10 year ago. USA Corp just loves to SCREW AMERICAN customers but its are fault.

 

[geminireaper]

Verizon Already launched the 150/50 service and thats dedicated so you dont have to worry about what your neigbhors are doing with their connection. Also no bandwidth cap.

 

[vir_cotto]

[citation][nom]zkevwlu[/nom]You want outrages prices? I direct you to the package listing of the dominant ISP here in Canada.http://tinyurl.com/m5mznw$20 can't even get you a 512 kbps connection. Maybe I should move to Europe when I graduate...[/citation]

Those are terrible prices, I guess I have to be grateful!

I pay $30 a month for 10Mbps down and 2Mbps up.

 

[Benihana]

Screw that. I'll hit that cap ridiculously quickly. I'll stick with my 6 MBit capless connection, thank you.

 

[Marcus52]

[citation][nom]wasabiman123[/nom]Does verizon fios have a dl cap?[/citation]

FiOS has no cap, and Verizon doesn't throttle their service either, something Comcast is notorious for doing. Sure, they will be glad to sell you faster service capability - but they don't guarantee you'll get it of course, and reserve the right to restrict it as much as they want. And, they do.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]Yah! Now we can pay more to hit our download cap in 48 hours instead of 15 days!Comcast seriously has to be one of the absolute worst companies of our generation.[/citation]
Not really. As far as internet goes Comcast is not bad at all. CenturyTel has to be the worst, extremely slow and expensive DSL, blocked ports, awful uptime. Everywhere I've had CenturyTel it's been like this.

 

[Guest]

To the people in the US complaining about 250gb cap... you guys should have been in Canada when they tried to implement Usage Based Billing which would give everyone a 25 gig cap and charge insane fees in the dollar range per gigabyte after that!

 

[mpyusko]

I have 20/1 via TW. They tried rolling out a cap here in our market but it was fought heavily by both consumers and eventually politicians. It was going to be like a 60 - 80GB cap with $1/GB overage. They withdrew pending "consumer education." Because I use 80GB/mo they classify me as a "heavy user". I stream Netflix, Hulu, and d/l a linux distro or 2 from time to time. Heck, if I install Windows, that's 3GB of updates before your even started. I pay for the service. And honestly, I rarely ever peg the line. I can have 6 simultaneous downloads from 6 different servers and still have room to spare. Most FTP sites won't serve more than 2Mbps and most shared hosting sites are ~200kbps. DoS protection most likely. I'm happy with my 20. I just wish it was 2-5 up instead of only 1. (TW's standard tier in this market is 10M/768k).

 

[Guest]

I've got 4 computers with 50 gig hard drive backup images that I back up every week. I can only upload 5 images a month? That's not right.

 

[eddieroolz]

At least you guys get 250GB cap for $105. We in BC get 100GB for $80.