Comcast Promises Nationwide 2 Gbps Internet Service By End Of 2015, 1 Gbps In 2016

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The headline states 2gbs this year, then a downgrade to 1gbs next year. perhaps an editor can fix it...
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It's not a downgrade. It's two different service tiers. But it is weird that Comcast is doing 2 Gbps before it does 1 Gbps.
 
Way to go Comcast. The regulators start banging on the door, and rather than them spreading word about how Comcast has been withholding prebuild infrastructure to make scarcity and increase prices, they decide to roll it out as a product 'out of the good of their hearts'.

Comcast is such a joke, glad my section of TWC is not getting sold to those clowns... granted the clowns we are getting sold to may not be that much better.
 
For example when in Maine the local contract required Comcast to install cable if there were five houses within any one mile span. Even if they had to run the cable across five miles uninhabited land.
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Serious? Wow no wonder their prices are high in some regions. 😵
 
Yeah you'll get gigabit internet, with a 300gb data cap you'll blow through in the first 30 minutes of use, resulting in massive overage fees. Comcast sucks.
 
this is comcast. never forget. worst company of 2014. f&^% that company.

http://consumerist.com/2014/04/08/congratulations-to-comcast-your-2014-worst-company-in-america/
 
Comcast needs to run more copper to service more residents.. They have really poor coverage. probably 40% of any given city .

And getting them to service more residents is impossible unless your living in a densely populated suburban neighborhood.
 
If Comcast matched Google's pricing, you would have to pay $140 (for twice the speed).
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This comparison doesn't make any sense. If Comcast "matched" my ISP's pricing (~$70/1mb), they'd charge $140,000 a month.
 
Download speed is usually much faster than upload speed..so how are they offering 2Gbps up and down to residents of Atlanta? That's some quick torrent seeding.
 
The headline states 2gbs this year, then a downgrade to 1gbs next year. perhaps an editor can fix it...
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It's not a downgrade. It's two different service tiers. But it is weird that Comcast is doing 2 Gbps before it does 1 Gbps.
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Actually, it's not weird at all. The 2Gbps is pure fiber to premise (easy to do) vs 1Gbps DOCSIS 3.1 over EXISTING coax, which hasn't been trialed yet (as DOCSIS 3.1 is rather new). Therefore, being able to bump people to 1Gbps merely by upgrading their cable modem IS an "upgrade" vs having to run fiber into your house, naturally leading to a later date.

Article title is pure clickbait. Where does the "Nationwide" part come into this. They are talking a single city for 2Gbps, and then 1Gbps test city in 2016 to later expand to the rest of the country.

So what 2025 for the rest of us?

If they offered reasonable prices for the service they can deliver today I might be interested. I think 105Mbps in my area is $90 already. That would scale up to about $860 for 1Gbps.
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Pricing varies by region. My Comcast 100Mbps service is $45 ($65 after promo). I had 50Mbps at the same price and they offered a free speed bump when the service became available in my area. A mere 2 miles away, there's a neighborhood that has NO Comcast at all. YMMV.
 
The dog is being nice right now and promises sweets and candies to everyone since he is going to breed with TWC, and nobody dares stopping them. So yeah you are going to hear a lot of those things lately, and I will believe it when I see it.
Limited time offer: if you sign up right now, Comcast will only throttle your internet line when you reach 6 gigs of data.
I'm already on a 200 mbs line, I pay $61 a month, and I believe that is already expensive. At such a speed your drives won't be able to keep up for a while and they will warm up and the firmware of the drives will slow them down for overheating issues (it happens more on 2.5 inch drives, but even bigger format drive).
 


Look into SSD's my friend. :)
 
In case you didn't know, Comcast this fall expanded its trial run of capped broadband plans in several markets in the south, including major markets like Atlanta, Nashville and Charleston. The lowest data caps are set at 300GB per month, which the company believes should be enough for the vast majority of its users.Nov 22, 2014
Why is Comcast so bad: Home broadband data caps are ...
bgr.com/2014/11/22/why-is-comcast-so-bad-28/Boy Genius Report
 


But 300GB (as opposed to Gb) is more than enough for the MAJORITY of its users. Its true that less than 5% (comcast claims 2%) of its users use more than that amount of information, but its usually folks that should be using its business class anyhow. As far as DATA Caps for the 2Gb service. From Jason Livingood on twitter

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And before anyone asks, there is no data usage limit on the planned 2G symmetric service. 🙂

3:29 AM - 2 Apr 2015

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-to-Offer-2-Gbps-to-18-Million-Homes-By-Years-End-133201

Data caps will be a trend that goes the way of the Dodo as soon as the infrastructure if further secured, with the latest rounds of fiber layed by Level3 and other backbone providers it'll become easier to refute their necessity. But until that happens we can expect them to stick around for a bit longer. You can thank Canada for data caps, even though their max is typically 50-100Gb.
 


The reason why the download speeds are more than upload are for a few different reasons. If its a broadband its the way channel bonding for the Docsis specification works. You can typically get more downstream channels bonded than upstream. Other times its by design, so for instance in my area comcast had 50 down 10 up. Where as charter had 50 down 4 up. Its partially to do also with attempting to cut down on the amount of traffic coming from residence via upload (as opposed to going TO residence via download), as it does hose up the providers networks even more. You'd be surprised to see how many data goes through the providers. With docsis 3.1 we can expect a maximum theoretically speed of 10 Gb down and 1 Gb up. With fiber connections you can theoretically get, symmetrical, 120Gbs (depending on fiber optics used and the equipment at the residence and ISP). Its to do with physics and the backbone thats provided at the last mile.

I don't have all the technical information to really share, or even myself understand, however thats the jist that I've picked up on so far.
 
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