Comcast is now delivering super high-speed Internet services to households in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. — up to 50 Mbps, significantly faster than typical low-end broadband, which comes in at 1.5 Mbps or less. The new speeds come courtesy of the company’s next-generation Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications 3.0 technology, which Comcast talked up at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. The 50 Mbps refers to download speeds.
Comcast has just released more deceit and propaganda by claiming to provide 50Mbps download speeds. During the last 9 months that I endured having them as my ISP, I paid for 6Mbps (6000Kbps) but was often only able to achieve between 50Kbps (dialup speed) and 250Kbps. On a good day, I could achieve between 3Mbps and 4Mbps. In additional, when calling about a problem, (OFTEN), menu selections were provided to allow the caller to specify whether the connection was slow on unavailable. Perhaps the marketing folks believe that all of their customers are STUPID because a reminder that IP phone service is available is always presented. Such service cannot function with a slow or unavailable connection.
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Comcast Goes Full Throttle With Experimental Wideband Rollout
Posted by: Chris Maxcer April 3, 2008 03:47 PMComcast is now delivering super high-speed Internet services to households in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. — up to 50 Mbps, significantly faster than typical low-end broadband, which comes in at 1.5 Mbps or less. The new speeds come courtesy of the company’s next-generation Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications 3.0 technology, which Comcast talked up at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. The 50 Mbps refers to download speeds.