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Rumor: Comcast bumping Internet service up to 100Mbps

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, May 28th 2009 No Comments

comcastcablemodemWell this certainly is an interesting rumor. It seems that Comcast might be considering boosting their DOCSIS 3.0 cable Internet service up to 100Mbps. And with a current 50Mbps cap, this would be good news for anyone using the service.

Apparently, the rumor stated that Comcast would be adding on between 40 and 50Mbps of bandwidth to their current offerings. Only downstream upgrades are mentioned, not upstream. Plus, it’s not know if this update would cause a change in the plan pricing or if the 250GB cap would be adjusted.

Comcast has already said they would be upgrading to 100Mbps last year, but missed the mark. It seems that current network capacity has been the company’s biggest hurdle in completing the upgrade.

Class-action lawsuit brought to Comcast over equipment rentals

By Staff Editor on Friday, Dec 26th 2008 1 Comment

comcastcablemodemInternet and cable provider Comcast is being sued by customer Cheryl Corraleio for requiring her to pay rental fees for the CableCARD and setup box without providing customers with the option to purchase the unit outright. This class-action suite was filed at the US District Court for the Eastern District of California in November.

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Comcast now offering 22Mbps and 50Mbps connection speeds

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 22nd 2008 No Comments

comcast cable modemIf you’re a Comcast subscriber, there’s some good news headed your way. In fact, the company just announced today that they will be offering new higher-speed connection options.
 
The upgrade to their DOCSIS 3.0 service brings 22Mbps and 50Mbps download speeds with 5Mbps and 10Mbps upload speeds, respectively. These new speed tiers should help subscribers keep with the times. However, even the standard tiers have been upgraded. The 6Mbps/1Mbps tier will be moved up to the 12Mbps/2Mbps tier. Likewise, the 8Mbps/2Mbps tier will be replaced with the 16Mbps/2Mbps tier.

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Panasonic VIERA HDTVs with tru2way coming to Chicago and Denver

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 15th 2008 1 Comment

tru2wayWe’ve talked about Panasonic’s new CableCARD, the tru2way before, however, the devices are going to see the light of day very soon. Specifically, Chicago and Denver will be the cities privileged to get the tru2way-enabled VIERA HDTVs first.

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First SDV tuning adapter is out to Comcast Subscribers

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Oct 7th 2008 No Comments

After years of testing, the long-awaited Switched Digital Video dongle for TIVO owners is finally out. Subscribers at NJ area with SDV services have started to receive notification from Comcast Cable service about the availability of tuning adapter to resolve two-way interaction SDV on one way tuner receiver like TIVO S3, HD or XL.

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Outsourced Comcast Tech goes medieval on Xbox Live cheaters

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Apr 4th 2008 3 Comments

Sir Lagzalot from the Halo 3 forums made a post where he claimed to be working for Comcast. Furthermore he claimed to use his notably high level of access to get revenge on some Xbox live players who were DDoS-ing his 360 while he was trying to play.

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Comcast marketing 50Mbps internet connections

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

In Minneapolis/St. Paul where the only things not still frozen are the Internet connections Comcast is making a ruckus by offering up a 50/5 Mbps down/up internet connection. Sure it costs $150 a month, which means not too many people are going to be buying into it, but it’s still interesting, I mean there isn’t any use for that fast of a connection unless you are using it for exactly what they were blocking just a week ago.

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Comcast might stop filtering BitTorrent Traffic – it’s about time

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 27th 2008 No Comments

comcast ceoIn a somewhat surprising move, Comcast is considering not treating all BitTorrent traffic like its criminal in nature. In fact, there are even talks of Comcast working a deal with BitTorrent to start using BitTorrent in its own networks.

They are going to start re-working their network management tools so that they treat all network traffic equally instead of discriminating against BitTorrent or other P2P traffic. The reason? Well you might be surprised to hear this, but there are increasing number of uses for BitTorrent and other P2P networks that is completely legal.

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Sprint whoring out its Xohm WiMAX network to anyone with some spare change

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 26th 2008 No Comments

First they let Clearwire have a piece of this venture for some money, then they let Google by their way into the deal, next up they are letting TV service providers in. Comcast, Time Warner, and even Bright House Networks will be buying into the nationwide WiMAX network.

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Class Action Lawsuit against Comcast springs up in D.C.

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 21st 2008 No Comments

We know how much you hate Comcast’s approach on hampering file-sharing traffic, here’s an update where the case is heading. A class action lawsuit has been filed against the nation second largest ISP in Washington, DC.

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