[Discuss] recent Internet speed upgrade by Comcast?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Marketing. In my community we have Comcast, RCN, and FIOS. They need to
be able to provide those speeds to their customers to compete with FIOS.
They are not specifically looking at communities.

On 05/07/2014 11:26 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> Recently I got email from Comcast telling me that they were going to increase
> the speed of my Internet connection.   The package that I purchase includes
> their Blast Internet tier.    In the past, they rated Blast as "up to
> 45Mbps".   The email
> said that the new limit was going to be up to 105Mbps.   I did some
> performance testing at that time and I did see numbers well above
> 45Mbps.   I can also go into the status page of the Comcast supplied
> cable modem and see that there are 8 channels  bonded on the
> downstream side with 4 on the upstream which can easily handle 105
> Mbps.  I have two
> questions though:
>
> 1. Has anybody else gotten a similar upgrade from Comcast recently?
>
> 2. What is Comcast's angle?   I have no other residential option for high
> speed Internet in my community so why would they upgrade my speed for
> no reason?

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