Verizon Doubts Cablevision's 101 Mbps Internet

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Yeah good luck having more than one person on a whole node with the 101 mbps. You go to sign up for it and they are like sorry your neighbor already has it. your out of luck. Thats why FioS will always be better. They already have a 50/20 package and are testing 100/30 in select areas. Best part is that its your own bandwidth..you dont have to share with your neighbors
 

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what do you expect to hear from verizon pr man, that their competition has an amazing service that everyone should buy. personally i don't know if they have anything more than hype, but i'll wait for consumers to tell us how it goes and not a pr man from verizon. who knows maybe they have something, for years verizon and other pushed dsl when cable turned out to be a better deal, i got better performance at a lower cost than my friends with dsl, sure fios is nice, but their is theory and then reality, lets wait and see maybe they got something more than smoke and mirrors.
 

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Parlor tricks are something every company uses... even Verizon. It makes Verizon look ridiculous and hypocritical to say Cablevision is playing games with rhetoric.
 

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The idea of 101mbit cable internet access is interesting, but the thought of several of these connections in a small area (like an apartment complex) makes me wonder how much of the 101mbit you're actually going to see. You start talking about several gigabits worth of traffic on a single node, it just seems like you're asking for problems imo. It's not really the "your neighbor has it so you're screwed" idea that should matter because that's really insignificant. It's the 40 people in a 400 unit apartment complex, down the street from the university, that's full of students, that are consuming 4+ gigabits by themselves that makes me wonder (in addition to the huge number of people in that same complex that would be sporting cheapie 10mbit or whatever cable). I seriously doubt the cable company is going to bother putting in several nodes or a super high capacity node at a single apartment complex to cover the massive bandwith use.
 

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Verizon's long-standing criticism of cable has been the "you share the bandwidth with your neighbors" argument. While technically true, I have yet to see any time in the past, well, its 8 years now with cable that my connection has run anything less than peak. Now it may be that I'm in a suburban area with a bunch of people who just check the email and do some light surfing, I'm not sure what my neighbors do. On the other hand it may be that cable is better equipped to handle the traffic than Verizon gives them credit for. After all, Verizon has DSL where the speed depends on how close you are to some location that has, in essence, their node. What's really worse, sharing a node capable of much higher speeds than your connection or having your bandwidth decay as a function of distance from a single location? Kind of a draw I think.

As I said before though, the 101Mbps connection is *inherently* flawed. Think about it. What do most people connect with? From what I can tell, laptops sell the most and these come with 802.11G, a 54Mbps connection. How the heck are you going to get the 101Mbps connection to the Internet if you're only getting 54Mbps within your house? Even worse, I have yet to see traffic over WiFi reach more than ~50%, or about 25-30Mbps.

Let's suppose for a moment that you do use this on a desktop with a wired connection to a router. Your router, unless homebuilt with GbE ports, is going to run with 100Mbps cards. And these rarely are capable of handling more than 85-90% throughput, limiting you to 85-90Mbps even in this scenario.

So, its with this in mind that I propose the only way to utilize a 101Mbps connection is with a homebuild router (Linux is particularly well suited to this, ClarkConnect for example is what I use), with two or more Gigabit ports, and a Gigabit switch. But this is *only* if the modems Cablevision has include Gigabit ports themselves. If not, you'll never ever see more than 90Mbps out of this, which is inherently flawed and should be criticized. They could just as easily market it as a 1Gbps connection, as long as it has a 100BaseT port on the modem, you'll never see more than 90Mbps.

Finally, consider the price. At $100/mo, this is essentially twice as expensive as any other standard cable service. I have Comcast, and get a 16Mbps connection. For this price, I would expect that the nodes have half as many clients as Comcast. This would at a minimum ensure 32Mbps operation, assuming that Cablevision's nodes are as capable as Comcast's.

BTW... cable nodes feed into fiber. The actual medium doesn't make a difference, what Verizon was trying to argue against is the topology of cable, which as I said to start with is the same old argument they've had for years. Thus far, I have yet to see my neighbors impact my speeds at any time in the last 8 years so I have serious personal doubts about the validity of such an argument. I would, however, grab FiOS in a heartbeat due to the faster speeds and lack of a data cap (not that I use more than 250GB/mo, simply that I do not support restricted accounts).
 

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I have cable & live on a dead end road & do see slow downs at peak time around 7 to 10 PM. I'd love to get the new 101 package, but who knows if it will be available or not?
 

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Joex I see your point however i have friend who are tier 3 support for cable and yes there is inherently a flaw when it comes to nodes and total shared bandwidth. He says his company tries not to overload the node by keeping the nodes well below the recommended number of users..ie if a node can handle 32 connections safely..they put no more than 25 on it. I pay for road runner turbo with speeds *up too* 16m however depending on the time of day I get anywhre between 10-16m. I live in an apartment so depending if my neighbors are using it really does play true. Now you try to compound this by allow people to get the 101mbps connection. So now we are talking the bandwidth capabilities of 4-6 users and watch how fast those nodes fill up. Its nice on paper but only on paper. Also like the verizon rep mentioned....your still limited by slow web server connection speeds, latency and number of jumps. Even with great downloads cable has inherently crappy upload. Verizon has a 50/20 now and is working on 100/30. 101mbps is currently pushing the limits of docis 3.0. Currently we have not yet found a limit to fiber. I wish fios was in my area because then I can say buh bye to TWC
 

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Comcast = Throttled in 2 different ways.
1. They have "Power-Boost" which is factored in as what you are paying for. They "boost" (give you what you are paying for) for the first few seconds of packets coming in. You get way you pay for...for a few seconds. Web pages load faster then they would without it, but only as fast as you are actually paying for... Just not all the time. Ever notice a larger download jumping to 10-20% right away and then slowing down considerably? You got what you are paying for for 10-20%... So most users don't even notice since they are just "searching the web."

So, the "PowerBoost Service" throttles your connection to what you pay for, for a few seconds. Which is also why speed tests show the speed you are paying for even though downloads or streamed content show otherwise...

2. Comcast has a "down throttling" system also. I will just post from an article here...
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Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes.

Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to – along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers – gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible.

Tripping either of Comcast's high bandwidth usage rate triggers results in throttling for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilisation rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes.

The Comcast two-tier traffic throttling system enforces different quality-of-service levels. Internet packets to and from a specific subscriber are assigned 'Priority Best Effort' (PBE) queueing by default, and the traffic rate is throttled by switching packets to lower priority 'Best Effort' (BE) queueing.

Comcast uses a bus analogy to explain how its two-tier traffic throttling system works:

"If there is no congestion, packets from a user in a BE state should have little trouble getting on the bus when they arrive at the bus stop. If, on the other hand, there is congestion in a particular instance, the bus may become filled by packets in a PBE state before any BE packets can get on. In that situation, the BE packets would have to wait for the next bus that is not filled by PBE packets."
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So, basicly you get what you pay for for 15 seconds or so by throttling your connections priority up for a "boost". (even though the boosted service is what they charge you for)
Then if you use 70% or more of what you pay for, for 15 minutess or more...you get screwed.
ALSO, after all that you are limited to 250gig a month and i think its something like a dollar a gig after that. Granted its much better then what other cable companies are proposing, its sad. If you play online games, download movies or cd's legally (itunes, rhapsody..etc), stream content such as netflix or even if you download large files such as open source content...you get screwed.

These are the "magic tricks" the PR guy from Verizon is referring to. Also, prob. how cablevision will make it "work." It seems like you are getting what you pay for, but you are not. Should be illegal.
 

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We have had 100Mbps Down/100 Mbps Up via the Utopia fiber network here in parts of SLC, Utah for quite some time now for about the same price. They have business lines that offer speeds in excess of 100/100 Mbps and 10Gigabit point to point service.

So this company has to add the 1 at the end of its service to boast the fast speeds they offer. Depending on where you live there are companies that are slowly upgrading their infrastructure and getting speeds that compare to other countries.
http://www.utopianet.org
 

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[citation][nom]joex444[/nom]Verizon's long-standing criticism of cable has been the "you share the bandwidth with your neighbors" argument. While technically true, I have yet to see any time in the past, well, its 8 years now with cable that my connection has run anything less than peak. Now it may be that I'm in a suburban area with a bunch of people who just check the email and do some light surfing, I'm not sure what my neighbors do. On the other hand it may be that cable is better equipped to handle the traffic than Verizon gives them credit for. After all, Verizon has DSL where the speed depends on how close you are to some location that has, in essence, their node. What's really worse, sharing a node capable of much higher speeds than your connection or having your bandwidth decay as a function of distance from a single location? Kind of a draw I think.As I said before though, the 101Mbps connection is *inherently* flawed. Think about it. What do most people connect with? From what I can tell, laptops sell the most and these come with 802.11G, a 54Mbps connection. How the heck are you going to get the 101Mbps connection to the Internet if you're only getting 54Mbps within your house? Even worse, I have yet to see traffic over WiFi reach more than ~50%, or about 25-30Mbps. Let's suppose for a moment that you do use this on a desktop with a wired connection to a router. Your router, unless homebuilt with GbE ports, is going to run with 100Mbps cards. And these rarely are capable of handling more than 85-90% throughput, limiting you to 85-90Mbps even in this scenario.So, its with this in mind that I propose the only way to utilize a 101Mbps connection is with a homebuild router (Linux is particularly well suited to this, ClarkConnect for example is what I use), with two or more Gigabit ports, and a Gigabit switch. But this is *only* if the modems Cablevision has include Gigabit ports themselves. If not, you'll never ever see more than 90Mbps out of this, which is inherently flawed and should be criticized. They could just as easily market it as a 1Gbps connection, as long as it has a 100BaseT port on the modem, you'll never see more than 90Mbps.Finally, consider the price. At $100/mo, this is essentially twice as expensive as any other standard cable service. I have Comcast, and get a 16Mbps connection. For this price, I would expect that the nodes have half as many clients as Comcast. This would at a minimum ensure 32Mbps operation, assuming that Cablevision's nodes are as capable as Comcast's.BTW... cable nodes feed into fiber. The actual medium doesn't make a difference, what Verizon was trying to argue against is the topology of cable, which as I said to start with is the same old argument they've had for years. Thus far, I have yet to see my neighbors impact my speeds at any time in the last 8 years so I have serious personal doubts about the validity of such an argument. I would, however, grab FiOS in a heartbeat due to the faster speeds and lack of a data cap (not that I use more than 250GB/mo, simply that I do not support restricted accounts).[/citation]

Move to NYC where at 5pm, on weekday, Time Warner Cable and their precious "speedboost" slows to a crawl with extremely high latency for four hours or so. You sir are simply lucky that you live in a sparsely populated suburb with few heavy users. Even in the Rochester area I get only about half the advertised speed I pay for.
 

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The main problem with the 101Mb internet service is who is going to send you things at top speed? No one. Even with multiple file transfers you would need several different sources sending at incredibly fast speeds to even come close to using all the bandwidth. With my 8Mb Comcast service, I can download all day from the newsgroups at top speed. In fact, in the last 3 years, I have never once seen the newsgroups go any slower than my max speed on Comcast.
 

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[citation][nom]mikecol69[/nom]101Mbps equals a lttle over 10MBps 8 bits to a byte so wifi or a 100MBps Lan connection or router is fine.[/citation]

You moron, all networking speeds are in Mb not MB, 802.11G will get 22-30Mb at the most, 100Mb NIC's will get 90Mb or so at the most. Learn before teachings.

My Cisco 1130AG gets just a hair under 28Mb if I've got my laptop close to it and it's one of the best AP's you can get. And don't believe speed tests over wireless, you need to actually test a stream of data to get a good idea, burst speeds don't count. Iperf for those interested.
 

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When I lived in Portland and Seattle it was always slow week days after school and on weekend evenings. In that region there were 2 cable companies Comcast and some regional player but Comcast bought them out and then doubled and tripled the rates. What they didn't do during that time was improve the cable plant. When there were 2 players in the Pacific Northwest both companies were building up the infrastructure and improving service constantly. Now with just one player they do nothing but raise prices. We either break up the monopolies or nationalize the cable plants if we expect to get anything comparable to the networks in Europe, Asia, or even urban Africa.
 

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[citation][nom]joex444[/nom]Verizon's long-standing criticism of cable has been the "you share the bandwidth with your neighbors" argument. While technically true, I have yet to see any time in the past, well, its 8 years now with cable that my connection has run anything less than peak. Now it may be that I'm in a suburban area with a bunch of people who just check the email and do some light surfing, I'm not sure what my neighbors do. On the other hand it may be that cable is better equipped to handle the traffic than Verizon gives them credit for. After all, Verizon has DSL where the speed depends on how close you are to some location that has, in essence, their node. What's really worse, sharing a node capable of much higher speeds than your connection or having your bandwidth decay as a function of distance from a single location? Kind of a draw I think.As I said before though, the 101Mbps connection is *inherently* flawed. Think about it. What do most people connect with? From what I can tell, laptops sell the most and these come with 802.11G, a 54Mbps connection. How the heck are you going to get the 101Mbps connection to the Internet if you're only getting 54Mbps within your house? Even worse, I have yet to see traffic over WiFi reach more than ~50%, or about 25-30Mbps. Let's suppose for a moment that you do use this on a desktop with a wired connection to a router. Your router, unless homebuilt with GbE ports, is going to run with 100Mbps cards. And these rarely are capable of handling more than 85-90% throughput, limiting you to 85-90Mbps even in this scenario.So, its with this in mind that I propose the only way to utilize a 101Mbps connection is with a homebuild router (Linux is particularly well suited to this, ClarkConnect for example is what I use), with two or more Gigabit ports, and a Gigabit switch. But this is *only* if the modems Cablevision has include Gigabit ports themselves. If not, you'll never ever see more than 90Mbps out of this, which is inherently flawed and should be criticized. They could just as easily market it as a 1Gbps connection, as long as it has a 100BaseT port on the modem, you'll never see more than 90Mbps.Finally, consider the price. At $100/mo, this is essentially twice as expensive as any other standard cable service. I have Comcast, and get a 16Mbps connection. For this price, I would expect that the nodes have half as many clients as Comcast. This would at a minimum ensure 32Mbps operation, assuming that Cablevision's nodes are as capable as Comcast's.BTW... cable nodes feed into fiber. The actual medium doesn't make a difference, what Verizon was trying to argue against is the topology of cable, which as I said to start with is the same old argument they've had for years. Thus far, I have yet to see my neighbors impact my speeds at any time in the last 8 years so I have serious personal doubts about the validity of such an argument. I would, however, grab FiOS in a heartbeat due to the faster speeds and lack of a data cap (not that I use more than 250GB/mo, simply that I do not support restricted accounts).[/citation]


1. Wireless N is commmon now at 150Mb/s
2. Lots of routers nowadays sport gige
3. gige is a standard onboard port now, and even the cheap ones are capable of pushing 100+mbit/s
4. The people who are interested in 100mbit service are also VERY interested in the no-bandwidth-cap thing. Not necessarily because they are going to hit that cap, but because they dont believe in caps, which is a strong motivator.

Enjoy your dialup services with your speed-boost and 4GB/year caps, as long as you support capped internet you're the thorn in freedom's side. I can saturate a 100mbit connection EASILY with completely legit usage.
 

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ill be switching if TW or VERIZON cap... regardless if I can get that speed or not. I hold companies responsible for their actions and if I don't agree they wont be getting a penny from me!
 

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The claim that you can't get 100mpbs on a lot of the internet is moot. The only reason that I want speeds like that is for torrents, and those are pulled from many sources totaling as much bandwidth as I can support.

As for the idea that 100mpbs will use 60% of an entire neighbourhood's pipe, what about 25mpbs users now? Most people I know have a 25mpbs connection, including 3 others in my apartment building.
 

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Speed Here is In TOP Tier of LAN. Above 100 Mb/s, so its above 1 mb/s, 10 mb/s 100 Mb/s, its in New 1 GB Lan. Good Start on enlarged Node. Even if one can use ALL 101 Mb/s, its due to Router & array situation in terminal end. Good for them.

Most would be part of UNIQUE Parsed Cloud, instant data when requested. Still giving average users plenty o' time to tinker & play, while machine sends out All nodes needs.


Signed:pHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D.
 

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At least you don't live in my rural area that is turning suburban...

The only cable provider, Charter, only has older lines in the area. We constantly get mailings of "get cable internet...," but the local office will always say that they don't offer in our area and never plan to. (Note: You can't even get basic cable tv in the area anymore because to many people have it.)

Everyone knows the bane of satellite based internet and MMO's... (MMO's require constant connections, not "fast, slow, fast, none, slow, ...")

Our only choice for "high-speed" internet is DSL, from Bellsouth (AT&T). Maximum "best connection speed" in the area?... 3mbps. (They offered 4.5 and 6 for a few months, but were sued because their hardware couldn't support it.) Further, due to the hardware (and the requirements of the US Government when AT&T pretty much reestablished their land phone monopoly in the area), they are just now getting around to upgrading so they can give more people 1.5 and 3mbps "high-speed." (No more connections available...no plans to upgrade prior to the company merger.)

If our telecommuniation companies (this includes cable companies) would actually upgrade their hardware in suburban areas (instead only focusing on major metropolitan areas), they could actually provide the country with "decent" connections, make an end-profit, and have more customers overall.

Instead, they play "number games" like many responses on this post suggest.

Capitalism at its finest...
 
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I worked with a telephone and internet company before,and they've always told us DSL is about 8mbits max. Coax cable is about 100mbits max.
DSL goes from the home straight to the nearest node where it has (depending from node to node) between 24 to perhaps a few 100 lines in cities x 100Mbits to the central.
From the central it jumps to a fiberoptic ring if you're in an evolved state. If not you'll stay on 1GBPS cable connection to the other central, which connects you to the other peer.

In other words, DSL is dedicated 8mbits for at least 24 houses per street, and at least 10 nodes per town = 480 connections @ 8 Mbits. Cable is 100Mbits shared line for everyone, until the nearest node, that has a +1GBit connection to the central = 100 connections @ 10 Mbits.

Cable is best in towns where no download junkies are (you being the first and only). DSL might be better for cities, but is also far more traceable.
 
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