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| reply to aguiar0016
Re: [Speed] Northeast speed changes coming. Let me clarify:
These changes are for the Northeast Region of Comcast.
Extreme 105 is basically going away. extreme 50 is basically becoming extreme 105, so any current customer on extreme 105 will see a price decrease.
I can't tell you gave me this information.
notifications are being sent out just not yet, they are starting commercials saying new speeds coming. |
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 whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC
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| said by aguiar0016:These changes are for the Northeast Region of Comcast.
Does your source work inside the region or outside? Eg. Could it be Northeast only because your source only is involved in that region. I would find it hard to believe that in other areas where Comcast and VZ FiOS compete that they would not implement these upgrades. |
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| He works in the Northeast region. Usually comcast doesn't launch speed increases nation wide because not all areas can get D3 speeds. |
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| reply to aguiar0016
This is going to cause alot of headaches in various departments within Comcast. Namely technical support and the headend managers pushing new configuration files to a boat load of modems. Looks like triple overtime pay  |
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join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
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| said by Mike Wolf:This is going to cause alot of headaches in various departments within Comcast. Namely technical support and the headend managers pushing new configuration files to a boat load of modems. Looks like triple overtime pay
How is this any different than any other speed increase? A few key strokes and the modems that are supposed to have it, will.
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| Because of the elimination of a higher speed tier configuration file, modems programmed with that file would go offline causing tech support calls and truck rolls which ideally would like to be avoided. After the IPv6 fiasco with the Netgear modems, all eyes are on everyone. In other speed increases, the configuration file isn't replaced, it's usually just modified.
Anyway it's going to require the extra work by rebooting and adjusting each affected account's modem individually. |
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join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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·Comcast
| said by Mike Wolf:Because of the elimination of a higher speed tier configuration file, modems programmed with that file would go offline causing tech support calls and truck rolls which ideally would like to be avoided. After the IPv6 fiasco with the Netgear modems, all eyes are on everyone. In other speed increases, the configuration file isn't replaced, it's usually just modified.
Anyway it's going to require the extra work by rebooting and adjusting each affected account's modem individually.
I don't see why this need be complicated. There are a number of things Comcast could do:
1. Leave the original higher speed tier configuration file in place and simply adjust the speeds in the Blast and old 50 Mbps file.
2. Bump up the speeds in the Blast and 50 Mbps tiers. Then switch all 100 Mbps users to the new 100 Mbps configuration file and delete the old high speed tier configuration file.
3. Remove the low speed tier and simply change the configuration files for Blast and 50 Mbps users to the 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps configuration files.
My guess is that there are very few users on the 100 mbps tier compared to the current Blast and 50 Mbps tiers so #2 above would require the least amount of changes to users accounts. Well technically #1 would, but then there's duplicate configuration files.
Blast and 50 Mbps users will have to reboot their modems to get the new speeds anyway. 100 Mbps users won't have to reboot, but when they do in the future, they'll pull in the new 100 Mbps config file.
It shouldn't be any more complicated than any other speed boost. Switching current 100 Mbps users over to the new configuration file could be automated, but even if it could not, like I said I doubt there are that many 100 Mbps users.
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 EGThe wings of lovePremium
join:2006-11-18
Union, NJ
kudos:9 | FWIW, these days, the config files in the modem actually point to the correct rate limits for the provisioned / subscribed to speeds on the CMTS config. Rates are controlled at and by the CMTS. |
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| comcast needs to upgrade speeds across the board again to keep up with fios
economy tier needs upgraded to no less than 10/1
16/2 needs to become 20/5
20/2 needs to become 30/5 or higher
50/10 needs to become 100/25
105/25 needs to become 200/50 |
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I still haven't seen anything official from Comcast about upgrades.
It would be great if true, but with no sources or even a peep from anyone at Comcast........ehhhh.
And I'm sure Comcast can batch new bootfiles easily, it's not like they haven't upgraded before.......I recieved 2 new speeds within weeks after D3 was finally brought here..
..from 16/2 to 20/4 and 2 weeks later 25/4. |
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| I think I may be in the same camp as you. Seems suspect until an official announcement from Comcast. |
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