Comments on: Comcast Cuts Price on 50 Mbps Service http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Umesh Patel http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213504 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:07:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213504 I recently upgraded from 16 MB to 50 MB with Comcast.

There are certain points everyone should consider before buying this :

1. I never received speed more than 40 MB download and 16 MB upload. I have
been watching my speed from http://www.speedtest.net/
2. Is it worth of $100/month for normal internet surfing?
3. I was the first in my entire are to get DOCSIS 3.0 modem so when I went
to Comcast store to pick up, they said none of the stores in California
has this modem. So, they have to come and do the installation (with additional charge). I am a software engineer I can install that modem by
myself but neither do they have it in any store here nor they ship it to
you. I guess they are making few extra bucks on installation which
doesn’t take more than 15 minutes.
4. You can’t use any DOCSIS 3.0 modem available in the market with 50 MB(Motorola SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0 etc.) You have to lease them from Comcast which is $4/month

5. Prices have dropped around 40 – 50 bucks in last 4 months so if you wait another couple of months you may get 50 MB aound $70/month

]]> By: Are Upload Speeds the New Broadband Selling Point? | Design Website http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213503 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:13:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213503 [...] require both fast downstream and upstream speeds. Only then will average consumers see the need to upgrade to $100, 50 Mbps broadband packages. But at that point, they’re also going to notice if their provider is sucking up their [...]

]]> By: Are Upload Speeds the New Broadband Selling Point? | 123 All Reviews http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213502 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:11:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213502 [...] require both fast downstream and upstream speeds. Only then will average consumers see the need to upgrade to $100, 50 Mbps broadband packages. But at that point, they’re also going to notice if their provider is sucking up their [...]

]]> By: Are Upload Speeds the New Broadband Selling Point? http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213501 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:39:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213501 [...] require both fast downstream and upstream speeds. Only then will average consumers see the need to upgrade to $100, 50 Mbps broadband packages. But at that point, they’re also going to notice if their provider is sucking up their [...]

]]> By: Broadband Confession: I Have Pipe Envy http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213500 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:01:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213500 [...] symmetrical 20 Mbps FiOS connection and the 50/10 Mbps speeds offered by Jordan Golson’s Comcast service. In despair, I checked out my own speeds and noticed that instead of the 7 Mbps down that I pay [...]

]]> By: David Robins http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213499 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:30:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213499 In Japan and Korea the cost for supper fast internet with no bandwidth cap is a lot cheaper than here. Given the fact that everything else (food, gas housing, you name it) is very expensive compared to USA, it shows our ISP’s are hording money, reducing productivity and hurting the consumer.This is bad for American economy.
For businesses which provide cloud storage and online collaboration tools like my company http://www.binfire.com faster internet speed is critical. Only when most users have access to supper fast internet, cloud computing will take off for real!

]]> By: Jordan Golson http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213498 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:23:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213498 For what it’s worth, I have this service and I have never gotten a notice that I’ve gone over the bandwidth cap — and I have definitely gone over it.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213497 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:09:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213497 Sigh … thanks for the catch. Fixed.

]]> By: Alex Berger http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213496 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:08:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213496 Aye, ditch bandwidth caps and drop it to $75 and maybe it’ll be worth paying attention to.

]]> By: Janez http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213495 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:31:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213495 Here in Slovenia (Central Europe), 50M/50M FTTH costs $70 per month. No bandwidth cap.

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]]> By: Jon Smirl http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213494 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:03:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213494 Could it be that no one wanted to pay $139/mth for a service that can hit it’s bandwidth cap in 11 hours?

I have FIOS, the real problem is that 99% of servers won’t talk to me at a full 20Mb/s, so what’s the point in getting 50Mb/s? Servers are implementing bandwidth throttling in order to keep their loads balanced.

]]> By: JAWeston http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213493 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:57:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213493 50 Mbps Up??!!!

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://gigaom.com/2009/06/09/comcast-cuts-price-on-50-mbps-service/#comment-213492 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:10:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=53542#comment-213492 Can you catch the small mistake early in the article?

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