Comcast's 2 Gbps Gigabit Pro Internet Service Will Cost $299 Monthly

[thundervore]

Im guessing this is only for big businesses. The mom and pop shops, and normal customers wont have the money to buy a router to handle this kind of speed.

What we need is 10GBE passive switches in our homes.

 

[MarkW]

$299 a month... for 2GB... Comcast is dreaming. That is an outrageous price. Absolutely insane!

 

[turkey3_scratch]

There are times when the servers themselves will not send data that fast to the client.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I find Comcast's 2GB for $300 aimed more towards a large business with a large network infrastructure and about 200 workers online constantly.

 

[jaber2]

$299 to many is too much, to a few its worth getting, maybe they would offer 1gbs for 1/2, would you buy 1gbs for $150?

 

[csava]

In Romania there is a internet plan with 1 Gbps with only 14$. Why to pay 299$ for double speed? This is nonsense.

 

[stevenrix]

2 Gbps and most likely you will be limited to a few gigz of data in one month.
We need different ISPs that offer differences services in the same area to stimulate competition and affordable prices, we don't need an overpriced service that only a few people will be able to afford. And we need an internet with unblocked ports with same download and upload speeds. Isn't it too much to ask?

 

[blazorthon]

2 Gbps and most likely you will be limited to a few gigz of data in one month.
We need different ISPs that offer differences services in the same area to stimulate competition and affordable prices, we don't need an overpriced service that only a few people will be able to afford. And we need an internet with unblocked ports with same download and upload speeds. Isn't it too much to ask?

If it has a cap, it'll probably be at least 250GB since that's common for their broadband. It might even be higher, if there is a cap at all. I'm not disagreeing with the rest of what you said, just saying you could be a little more reasonable about the data. This isn't some mobile wireless connection.

 

[tical2399]

Comcast gives me more than i pay for usually. Pay for 105 down and 20 up and I get 117 down and 25 up. I wish Google fiber would come to Miami so I could get it or force Comcast to match.

 

[hst101rox]

What's the advertised upload speed? 20Mbps?

 

[stevenrix]

2 Gbps and most likely you will be limited to a few gigz of data in one month.
We need different ISPs that offer differences services in the same area to stimulate competition and affordable prices, we don't need an overpriced service that only a few people will be able to afford. And we need an internet with unblocked ports with same download and upload speeds. Isn't it too much to ask?

If it has a cap, it'll probably be at least 250GB since that's common for their broadband. It might even be higher, if there is a cap at all. I'm not disagreeing with the rest of what you said, just saying you could be a little more reasonable about the data. This isn't some mobile wireless connection.

Dang it, for some reasons i was not able to post my previous comment so i am going to rewrite it.
ATT and Comcast a few years ago were capping up to 250 gigz of data per month. TWC is the only one that still does not cap data but we dont know for how long.
Comcast used to ban its customers when they were reaching over 250 gigz, ATT used to make them pay a fee. I am not aware if this has been changed in their policy/TOS but it's very easy to reach 250 gigz of data in a month. I'm pretty sure Comcast will keep capping monthly data.
I got different ISPs, COX, ATT, Comcast, TWC, they all have their pros and cons ^_^

 

[soldier44]

Getting 105 mbs now for $108 a month plenty of speed for torrents.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Comcast gives me more than i pay for usually. Pay for 105 down and 20 up and I get 117 down and 25 up. I wish Google fiber would come to Miami so I could get it or force Comcast to match.

Except the question is whether they even would match. So many people are even clueless about their Internet plan. Sure, we on Tomshardware, the tech-savvy, would make the wise decision, but consider your non-tech-savvy families who just pay their monthly bill and couldn't give a crap or even know about other ISPs.

 

[tical2399]

What's the advertised upload speed? 20Mbps?

You asking me? Mine is 105 down and 20 up advertised.

 

[tical2399]

Getting 105 mbs now for $108 a month plenty of speed for torrents.

Where do you live? They charge me $112 here in Miami for the 105 plan.

 

[gorfmaster1]

Honestly, anything over 500 mb is overkill for consumer use, especially if there is a data limit, if you had the equipment that could take full advantage of 2Gbs, you are probably a business and they would charge you WAAAAAY more

 

[blazorthon]

Honestly, anything over 500 mb is overkill for consumer use, especially if there is a data limit, if you had the equipment that could take full advantage of 2Gbs, you are probably a business and they would charge you WAAAAAY more

I'll admit that I didn't think of the simplest solution to being able to use this that was posted above by another comment. You can have two 1Gb Ethernet ports joined together for a 2Gb connection and this function is very common on mid-ranged to higher end consumer motherboards.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Yea, data caps are pretty terrible. Honestly, I'd rather have unlimited data usage on a 10 Mbps plan, than have 100 Mbps on a 300 GB each month plan.

 

[digitaldoc]

$299 to many is too much, to a few its worth getting, maybe they would offer 1gbs for 1/2, would you buy 1gbs for $150?

Still too much. I would consider 500 Mbps for $75 though. I currently pay $50 for 25 Mbps which seems way overpriced.

 

[Geef]

Comcast will probably do something like say you get a 2Gbit connection but your monthly max download is ... 300Mbit or some other way low number. Then they will be like "Hey we will upgrade your service to unlimited max download for only $$$$$$ a month"...

 

[heffeque]

My connection in Spain is 200/200 Mbps (soon to be updated to 350/350 Mbps) for 45 €/month. My connection will probably be faster than this 2000/??? Mbps connection from Comcast, taking into consideration how miserably slow my grandma's "supposedly 20 Mbps" Comcast connection is.

 

[alidan]

As a network eng. I'm curious regarding the physical layer - outside of my industry, and a couple of motherboards I've seen on Toms / Anand, I've not seen a 10GE port - A N Y W H E R E.

Really not. And they are expensive too.

So how are they going to deliver this? I was looking on telecomramblings.com some time ago, and they didn't specify the physical layer either.

So assuming people are unlikely to own 10G Ethernet ports, I'd say it has to be some form of link aggregation, say Etherchannel. But even if you deliver 2xGigE ports for this, with overheard you'd not actually get a full 2.10^9 b/s, you'd need a third port in aggregation to get that... Just the same as you won't get a full 1GB/s of payload from a 1GB Ethernet port.

Watching with interest.

And by the way, I get 170M down, and 13M up (measured), and pay for 150/12.

one of my old modems had a usb connection as an option for computers, granted this was when ethernet wasnt integrated into motherboards yet. now if my math is right, 2gbit would be closer ro 200mb up and down... if they would add a small layer of lag to it, it could be done through usb3 rather than a 10gbit port.

In Romania there is a internet plan with 1 Gbps with only 14$. Why to pay 299$ for double speed? This is nonsense.

take into account that in america, getting more than 1mbit up and down is a luxury in most cases, and only recently has speeds higher than 10mbit been defined as high speed.

i got 75 mbit down and 5mbit up... my up speed is just about right but my down speed is usually around the 40mbit range. this i pay 90~$ for.

 

[hst101rox]

What's the advertised upload speed? 20Mbps?

You asking me? Mine is 105 down and 20 up advertised.

No, the upload rate for the 2Gbps internet service. Kind of a joke because they are probably just stating maximum download rate.

 

[digitaldoc]

As a network eng. I'm curious regarding the physical layer - outside of my industry, and a couple of motherboards I've seen on Toms / Anand, I've not seen a 10GE port - A N Y W H E R E.

Really not. And they are expensive too.

So how are they going to deliver this? I was looking on telecomramblings.com some time ago, and they didn't specify the physical layer either.

So assuming people are unlikely to own 10G Ethernet ports, I'd say it has to be some form of link aggregation, say Etherchannel. But even if you deliver 2xGigE ports for this, with overheard you'd not actually get a full 2.10^9 b/s, you'd need a third port in aggregation to get that... Just the same as you won't get a full 1GB/s of payload from a 1GB Ethernet port.

Watching with interest.

And by the way, I get 170M down, and 13M up (measured), and pay for 150/12.

one of my old modems had a usb connection as an option for computers, granted this was when ethernet wasnt integrated into motherboards yet. now if my math is right, 2gbit would be closer ro 200mb up and down... if they would add a small layer of lag to it, it could be done through usb3 rather than a 10gbit port.

In Romania there is a internet plan with 1 Gbps with only 14$. Why to pay 299$ for double speed? This is nonsense.

take into account that in america, getting more than 1mbit up and down is a luxury in most cases, and only recently has speeds higher than 10mbit been defined as high speed.

i got 75 mbit down and 5mbit up... my up speed is just about right but my down speed is usually around the 40mbit range. this i pay 90~$ for.

In the US currently, broadband was recently redefined to a minimum of 25/3.

 

[CaedenV]

As a network eng. I'm curious regarding the physical layer - outside of my industry, and a couple of motherboards I've seen on Toms / Anand, I've not seen a 10GE port - A N Y W H E R E.

Really not. And they are expensive too.

So how are they going to deliver this? I was looking on telecomramblings.com some time ago, and they didn't specify the physical layer either.

So assuming people are unlikely to own 10G Ethernet ports, I'd say it has to be some form of link aggregation, say Etherchannel. But even if you deliver 2xGigE ports for this, with overheard you'd not actually get a full 2.10^9 b/s, you'd need a third port in aggregation to get that... Just the same as you won't get a full 1GB/s of payload from a 1GB Ethernet port.

Watching with interest.

And by the way, I get 170M down, and 13M up (measured), and pay for 150/12.

Optical comes in 2, 4, and 8 Gbps flavors, so there are ways to hit 2Gbps throughput without EtherChannel... granted I have mostly seen this on local network fiber NICs rather than long-haul ones.

Also, there is a growing number of 10Gbps equipment on the market outside of backbone equipment. It is much like how Gigabit Ethernet was where you could not fine 1Gbps switches or routers until 3-5 years after it was a standard feature on motherboards. I think that the transition will happen a lot faster with 10Gbps, and we should start seeing cheap unmanaged 10Gbps consumer equipment hit the market in another year or two.

Oh, and by 'cheap' I mean a few hundred dollars instead of the thousands to hundreds of thousands that it costs today.