Comcast promises 160 Mbit broadband
Cable companies aren’t known as nimble innovators, but Comcast Corp. is out to change that perception this year with ultra-high-speed Internet service, more high-definition content and gadgets that link video, phone and broadband services. “We’re about innovation and having the best network,” Chief Executive Brian Roberts told The Associated Press in a preview of his speech at the Consumer Electronics show on Tuesday. Roberts is expected to demonstrate a technology that delivers up to 160 megabits of data per second: It will allow him to download a high-definition copy of “Batman Begins” in four minutes.
The technology, DOCSIS 3.0, will start rolling out this year. “If it’s as successful as we hope, in 2009 and beyond we will have it available in millions of homes,” he said. Cable systems largely enable download speeds up to 10 Mbps — compared with up to 50 Mbps from Verizon’s fiber-optic service FiOS. Roberts said Comcast plans to offer more than 1,000 high-definition videos this year, including up to 300 movies on demand that may be free or included in a subscription or a pay-per-view service. It seems all very nice, but these promises often results in nothing. Meanwhile, Comcast really needs to work on their technical support.
Source: CNN
Comments(38)
never actuallly seen a comcast place, is it in FLA?
yeah right.. whats the point of fast speeds and then
throttle/restrict broadband speeds for some applications..
No it’s not nice. 1000 Movies. I watch that per year. All I am waiting for is TCM VOD 150,000+ movies, and movies I want to watch, not new crap… that I can get so easy anyway.
it’ll be probably be like my local ISP.
promises 20mb. but you only get that for 1 hour a day from a fast webhost, the rest of the time you’re sharing with 1000s of other people, and then in the evenings they throttle you down further.
dont count on getting 160mb!
Verizon Fios FTW
while were on the subject, is there any way to boost my wireless signal? i never have over 20mbs on my laptop but my desktop sits at 100mps all the time.
AFAIK there was a news posted here last year that Comcast is throttling down/preventing bitorrent downloads by sending false “downloaded complete” packets to the client.
@rawr
u might be experincing a porting issue google “port forwarding”. you will need to match the port number to ur laptop,modem,bittorrent,P2P apps,and w-router. simple if its a netgear
it might also be that ur bandwidth is being used on the desktop more. will occur if u r using both the laptop and desktop at the same time.
@7/ROFL:
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/08/220246
It’s back as a repost on slashdot
Theres one in Shippensburg PA. I used to live right down the road from it. And as far as comcast there is a site that you can buy hacked modems from that allow you to dowanload using all if not more of your bandwidth and they cant detect it. I know someone who has one and they download at like 19mb/s.
downloading 30 GB using a 160 mbits will take 25 minutes, not 4 !
no one said anything about downloading 30GB.
they said a HD film. about 5GB
Ya, if you use the proper codec you can stuff a whole HD-quality movie to a regular DVD
“We’re about innovation and having the best network”
You’re also about throttling and spying on your customer’s.
@ 4
If the ISp promises you 20 Mb/s the whole 24/7 and you have it on paper you can get legal actions agains them.
When My ISP Chello started to make problems i told them that thye don’t make up that what i have in the Rules
i got always 1 IP when there was that i have an dynamic. i had many of internet cable modem crashes, i tolde them once twice.. but third i tolde them whats the pain in the ass and gues what… now i’m getting my 5 MB/s every time of the day. And when thers something wrong like broken connections and so the call with apolagizes. Thats how you set up your ISP
huh
@6
100 mbps is your network card bandwith not your real internet bandwith. in your laptop your wireless connection is 54 mbps…..
http://i2.tinypic.com/7wglloo.png
And 1Mbps up.
With comcast my up speed was throttled at 32K. We had a 1meg up contract. I could barely keep my ratio at 1. We switched to WOW with a half meg up contract which gives me 3 times as much up BW. Comcast is a bad ISP if you actually plan on using your connection. ”
Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell.”
And 6K/s up ?+ The ultimate ratio killer What’s the upstream speed ?
oh yeah, They may also charge .002 Dollars instead of .002 cents for every K that you go over the limit.
I don’t trust all that old copper carrying my bandwith no more, especially if its comcast throttling me, and capping my upsspeed. Just stick with Verizon’s FiOs Plan i have 15mb/2mb and i am never throttled I’m at about 700GB of traffic per month mostly P2P’ing,not to mention they provide free usenet access. and they have their plans with better upspeed, Fiber is the FUTURE!
5mb/2mb
15mb/2mb
15mn/5mb
20mb/20mb
50mb/20mb
those are the FiOs plans, and with the 20mb/20mb plan @ $64 a month it makes comcast look like crap. Im pretty Sure Verizon can/will increase the speed as consumers demand it i just wished i lived in one of those bigger cities so i can get the 50/20 plan.
He will download Batman Begins in 4 mins?
Haha. Maybe if it is coming down a pipe from the next room.
Whats the point of having Comcast 160Mbit if P2P programs and protocols are throttled and blocked?
What your gonna use FTP? I bet Comcast hinder that soon aswell..
Eventualy they end up messing with HTTP and your 160gb/s connection is as fast as a K56 modem again…
Net neutrality ftw… I heard their going to force ads directly to heir customers soon, imagine that.. you go to a ad free site, and ads still pops up but now their from your ISP instead…
F Comcast!
FINALLY. 10mbps is fast, but not fast enough. Redemption, maybe?
*sigh*
Over here, Comcast is an illegal monopoly, yet the US government won’t do anything about it for some reason. Verizon, Qwest, no company is allowed to use Comcast’s lines.
i think i saw something about the FCC getting involved with the BT throttling. hopefully they get pimp smacked…
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gyYIyHWl3sEg1ZktvVRLdlmQ5hpwD8U1UOFO0
anyways, i’m calling BS on this one. local ISP choices for me are comcast and verizon DSL… i have verizon, my gf has comcast 10Mbit. how fast is 10Mbit to comcast?
comcast: 10Mbit = 3Mbit(max) 2.4(average day) 3 is best we’ve ever gotten in the middle of the night from a close test server
verizon: 3Mbit = 3.7Mbit (pretty consistantly too)
verizon funks with the NAT so no one can call in, but still it’s cheaper and faster.
Just don’t waste your time and money with Comcast. Their promises and customer services to you are worth as much as a soiled diaper.
brighthouse ftw :]
Id go with Fios if it was available in my area, but it isnt…
I think this whole situation blows, cause I was originally with Insight, which isnt too bad (getting 1.2 MBps at any given time of the day). Now Im going to be stuck with Comcast cause Insight wanted more money and more costumers…
FiOS tech here…Comcast is scared! If you can get it..not only will you have a dedicated fiber to your home, but constant speeds as well. VZ FiOS is not only faster, but cheaper as well…the rate you are stated…will stay the rate.
Get it if you can…I live in Qwest territory unfortunately, so I have no other choice for fast speed…yep I pay for freakin Comcast…bastards!
Comcast is not telling the complete truth. They claim to calculate your through put download 4 200 meg files and add the total speed together. They will not provide one pipe that has a high bandwidth. They add 4 small pipes together to get what speed they try to sell. As soon as FIOs or anyother option is available I will stop using comcass. Besides screwing with contributing to the Open Source community is bad. When they interfere with my Fedora torrent seeds. I wonder if you could use comcast may have been impersonating my traffic at the time the crime was committed defense when we go to court thanks to the RIAA.
the high speed is for them, not you. It’s for when they are selling you something, not when you are downloading. You can bet your ass the average user will not see any increases in bandwidth. They want THAT room for additional sales.
Sweeet. Uber fast speeds ja! And this time you won’t buttravage me, right cumcast?
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday. A coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against certain types of data. Two groups also asked the FCC to fine the nation’s No. 2 Internet provider $195,000 for every affected subscriber. “Sure, we’re going to investigate and make sure that no consumer is going to be blocked,” Martin told an audience at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
In an investigation last year, The Associated Press found that Comcast in some cases hindered file sharing by subscribers who used BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing program. The findings, first reported Oct. 19, confirmed claims by users who also noticed interference with other file-sharing applications. Comcast denies that it blocks file sharing, but acknowledged after the AP story that it was “delaying” some of the traffic between computers that share files. The company said the intervention was necessary to improve the surfing experience for the majority of its subscribers. Peer-to-peer file sharing is a common way to illegally exchange copyright files, but companies are also rushing to utilize it for legal distribution of video and game content. If ISPs hinder or control that traffic, it makes them important gatekeepers of Internet content.
I dont know what you noobs are complaining about. I have Time Warner and they just installed fibre optic in every house in my city that has cable. My speeds went from 1.6mbps to well over 8.9mbps overnight. Right now I am hitting 18 to 22mbps EVERY DAY ALL DAY! It has never dropped below 18mbps and the closest place where the servers are located is well over 6 blocks away, not in the next room. My nephew lives in Indiana and has Comcast and right now he is hitting a steady 75mbps ALL DAY EVERY DAY and the closest place where the servers are located for him is over 20 miles away!
Dial up is dead and buried…cable is going that way fast…DSL and ADSL are quickly heading in that direction. By 2009 the internet you are now on (Internet 1) will be turned over to the FCC for use as we all will be on I2 (internet 2) that will have no lower speeds then 20mbps and top speeds of 300mbps. Most Colleges and Universities are now on I3 (internet 3) that allow connections that hit speeds as fast as 1 to 2 GIGABYTES PER SECOND and the US Government and Military are on I4 (internet 4) and they have a 5 to 10GBPS connection. In fact there is a bill in Congress right now that will REQUIRE ALL IP’s to provide no less then 10mbps connections at all times or lose their licenses, and it comes up for a vote in may 08 with over 275 sponsers in the House and 62 sponsers in the Senate (another 52 House members and it will be Veto Proof)
So before you noobs start whining that this will never happen…close your mouths and do some research and you will find out not only can it happen, but it is already in the works and unless you understand that, you will be left behind very quickly.