Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband... for $150 per month

[dudio]

"Comcast has been promising that DOCSIS 3.0 goodness would be coming to its customers this year, and the cable giant is about to make good. Starting tomorrow, Comcast's new "extreme high-speed" Internet tier will be available to subscribers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, including Hudson, Wisconsin. Download speeds will top out at 50Mbps while uploads will be capped at 5Mbps." ... more

Sounds great, but at what point is this overkill?
I doubt half the sites I visit can pump their crap
to me fast enough to make a difference, and torrents
will still be throttled (I assume). Google and Microsoft
have big pipes, but will a search page result coming
back faster than the current time of 0.3 seconds, or the
rare file download from MS be worth it?

[Smiley]

We have 45 Mbps at work (DS3) and it is great. But a shared system like cable Internet, where I can't even get the 6Mbps that I currently pay for, except in the wee morning hours, I doubt could not support 50Mbps bandwidth, unless they also drastically install many more switches and backbone circuits.

[dudio]

I'm lucky with Cogeco cable, because they have
designed the network well, and not saturated the nodes.
I can get my full 10Mbps when I hit decent sites.

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yeah I can hit 10mbps on anything I download. heck just today i downloaded a video.
I have dld at 1.2mb/s during dinner time before as well.

Though when you look at what Verizon is charging for FIOS I cant see too many people going with comcast for that speed.

[dudio]

Is that a screenshot of war3z action ?

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Originally Posted by dudio

Is that a screenshot of war3z action ?

no actually its a screenshot of me downloading a movie trailer.

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ahh, Denmark pron