Comments on: Finally, 100 Mbps Everywhere (If You Have Comcast) http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/ Sat, 25 May 2013 10:10:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Krazy3bood http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-617177 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:04:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-617177 The max speed you can get in my country is 8 Mbps !

]]> By: kevin http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616963 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:25:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616963 This is America. Some portion of the population will always buy the latest, greatest, biggest, fastest newest thing. By initialy charging more than most people will pay, they hook these people into contacts at a very profitable price point. 6 months later, they drop the price to a more reasonable, yet still very profitable price point and another group will buy in because they percieve this as a “deal”. Finally (often years later) the service is offered at a cost + reasonable profit. The alternative? Unless the government takes over as your ISP, capitalism dictates that your provider put more effort into squeezing more profit from being as good as the alternative on the old hardware and wiring they’ve already paid for than investing in a breakthough that would change way Americans work and play online. As a Comcast shareholder, I respect that. As a Comcast customer, I hate it.

]]> By: Ih8Comcast http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616866 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:16:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616866 Comcast, Comcast, Comcast… when will you learn?

I currently have your 12mbit service. I used to have 16 or 20, I forget which. I downgraded. Why? Because anything 6mbit or greater is just dandy for browsing and most everyday usage. Super high speed is really awesome but what is the point when I’m going to hit my monthly cap on the 4th of the month? The 250gb cap is crazy and until you remove it, nobody will buy your idiot-priced 100mbit. In fact I may switch down to 6mbit from 12. I already have to monitor my usage closely to not go over 250gigs/month. I would be more excited if they announced offering 5mbit for $20/month than 100mbit for $100

]]> By: JP http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616863 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:07:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616863 If South Korea can offer gigabit speeds to their whole country by the end of 2011, we can do better than 100 mbps.

]]> By: Bill http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616860 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:57:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616860 I’ll be impressed when they offer Gigabit. 100 Mbps? Please. Also–rip off.

]]> By: Darren http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616749 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:47:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616749 CNN did a thing on this during the morning show. The best part was the woman saying, “the funny thing is that this is still not nearly as fast as verizon fios” and that they are just catching up to the rest.

]]> By: Jon http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616746 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:42:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616746 I wish high-speed broadband subscriptions from Comcast were offered in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. :(

]]> By: Andreas http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616728 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616728 The price of Comcasts internet offer is about 5 times more expensive than what the same connection costs in Sweden. And the companies offering those speeds in Sweden are profitable. And there are no caps on usage.

It must be wonderful to be an ISP in the US.

]]> By: ninjashrimp http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616719 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:59:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616719 I call Bull$#!^ on the transfer speed for an HD movie in 5 seconds! At maximum speed, which you’ll never achieve on a 100megabit connection, the only HD movie you could download in 5 seconds would have to be about 3 Minutes long @720p resolution (lowest resolution considered to be HD). I don’t know many movies that short.

Simple math:
100 Megabits = 12.5 Megabytes
Average HD movie (with high compression) = 4 to 6 Gigabytes.
Average HD movie transfer speed time = 5 1/3 to 8 Minutes
Smallest HD movie (with super high compression) = 2Gb
Smallest HD movie transfer speed time = 2 2/3 Minutes
**These are the maximum possible speeds on 100mbit. Real world…I wouldn’t expect more than 50%-75% of 100mbit during peek speeds, with the average probably much lower.

Maybe my file sizes aren’t accurate. I am not sure what type of file they are referring to as an HD Movie.

]]> By: max_pain http://gigaom.com/2011/04/14/finally-100-mbps-everywhere-if-you-have-comcast/#comment-616713 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:40:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330593#comment-616713 100Mbps is a wow factor? Comcast is capping our usage per month.
I assumed whoever wrote this never been to overseas. For example, Singapore, they already have 100Mbps unlimited broadband for home.

Oh wait, they have fiber broadband for home which for $80 you can enjoy 200(download)/100 (upload)MBps….WOW…. oh wait, there’s one more, for $320, you can enjoy 1000(down)/500(up)Mbps…WOOOT!!!

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