Comcast wideband

[Jonathan90]

dam that modem is fast

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmXQfPkfJqw

we will have this is another 10 years maybe?

they are having it soon i think

It's nothing special, comcast users wont be seeing that speed.

You can already get that speed over here anyway, just costs a fair bit of money.

[punky]

Given Concast's (sic) traffic management (i.e. shaping) policies, you'll never see that speed, given that they sabotage your connection with reset packets. Even when you do, they'll arbitarily disconnect you due to overusage.

[Jonathan90]

Hmm yes they used to but not no more course they will see that speed in a few years look at korea and swden everyone has 100 mbits lol and u know what funny lol chatting to a sweden guy ingame and i asked do you get 100mbits all the time he says no it averages about 95 mbits lol and heres us less than 1 mb in some areas and he was complaining .

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

Hmm yes they used to but not no more course they will see that speed in a few years look at korea and swden everyone has 100 mbits lol and u know what funny lol chatting to a sweden guy ingame and i asked do you get 100mbits all the time he says no it averages about 95 mbits lol and heres us less than 1 mb in some areas and he was complaining .

some do - not all.

Link

Sweden
Average advertised speed of 21Mbps but according to speedtest.net, people are actually achieving an average of 7.4Mbps. In Sweden there is a VDSL network live. Fibre has been available for quite a long time with a significant number of people served by it. Speeds vary depending on which network, but can go up to 100Mbps, However there is a big polarisation between those that get it and those still relying on DSL products.

South Korea
South Korea's figure is 43Mbps. In South Korea there has also been a very strong fibre rollout, which has been enabled, at least in part, by state contributions. Often regarded as something of a gold standard when it comes to super-fast broadband, an amazing 90% of homes have a broadband connection of between 50 and 100Mbps. They also pay the lowest rates in the world. There are pilot services offering connections starting at 1,000Mbps. The big driver for fast broadband here is gaming and 43% of the population has a personal profile in the virtual world Cyworld, which recorded £5m worth of trade per month last year. Those dawdling on slow UK connections can take heart from results from speedtest.net which show that some citizens are only achieving speeds of 3.6Mbps. This is because the extremely fast networks are concentrated in the towns and cities.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

Hmm yes they used to but not no more course they will see that speed in a few years look at korea and swden everyone has 100 mbits lol and u know what funny lol chatting to a sweden guy ingame and i asked do you get 100mbits all the time he says no it averages about 95 mbits lol and heres us less than 1 mb in some areas and he was complaining .

Actually, they still are... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...comcast_again/

And if you get the speed, this might happen link
"Comcast is considering monthly download caps for all those people on its cable-based internet service.
According to a report from Broadband Reports, America's second largest ISP is mulling a plan that would cap user downloads at 250GB a month. Under the plan, users would not be penalized if they crossed that 250GB threshold once during a 12-month period, but if they did it again, they'd be charged $15 for every 10GB beyond the magic number."

[punky]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

And if you get the speed, this might happen link
"Comcast is considering monthly download caps for all those people on its cable-based internet service.
According to a report from Broadband Reports, America's second largest ISP is mulling a plan that would cap user downloads at 250GB a month. Under the plan, users would not be penalized if they crossed that 250GB threshold once during a 12-month period, but if they did it again, they'd be charged $15 for every 10GB beyond the magic number."

Its worse than that. Concast have a habit of arbitrarily disconnect heavy users, without defining any limit. So downloading 1mb too much and thy'll cancel your service without notice, and ban you for a year. Given residences in the US tend to be more spread out than the UK, it makes ADSL even more unlikely.

Source: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/0040220

[Jonathan90]

Fair Enough Stuart i was reading can't remember wear now look for it alter that they didin't the publicity something to do with standards so they stopped doing it


but still who wouldn't like to have that speed lol

4gb in 3 minutes

lmao imagine if in the video he got capped lol

[the-cable-guy]

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

Hmm yes they used to but not no more course they will see that speed in a few years look at korea and swden everyone has 100 mbits lol and u know what funny lol chatting to a sweden guy ingame and i asked do you get 100mbits all the time he says no it averages about 95 mbits lol and heres us less than 1 mb in some areas and he was complaining .

ppl in Japan have a well fat pipe, you can probably feel their connections on Mars lol

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Originally Posted by Jonathan90

4gb in 3 minutes

it no good for torrents with one seeder tho, unless you both have a fat pipe.

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

Fair Enough Stuart i was reading can't remember wear now look for it alter that they didin't the publicity something to do with standards so they stopped doing it


but still who wouldn't like to have that speed lol

4gb in 3 minutes

lmao imagine if in the video he got capped lol

I can do 4gb in 6 minutes, fast enough for me.

[Jonathan90]

you have 75mbit pipe?

and the private tracker i'm on will easily max enyone connection they have ovh gbit lines to seed from scene only tracker

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

you have 75mbit pipe?

and the private tracker i'm on will easily max enyone connection they have ovh gbit lines to seed from scene only tracker

25mbit symetrical with speedburst upto 100mbit (symetrical) £50/month.

[the-cable-guy]

Originally Posted by TraxData

I can do 4gb in 6 minutes, fast enough for me.

i sense abit of bragging going on there

Originally Posted by the-cable-guy

i sense abit of bragging going on there

I sense abit of jealousy going on there

But no..it wasnt bragging, i know many people who have 1Gbit connections...what i have is slow compared to them.