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Re: Good deal for 300 Good deal for who? They would love for everyone to jump on that tier, its free money, and especially when 99% of households NEVER, surpass more than like 30Mbps at one time. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | said by ITALIAN926:Good deal for who? They would love for everyone to jump on that tier, its free money, and especially when 99% of households NEVER, surpass more than like 30Mbps at one time.
The sweet spot is the Performance tier at 25/5 for $49 and is more than enough for most households. Note I said MOST and not ALL households.
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 danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | reply to ITALIAN926
Good deal for who? They would love for everyone to jump on that tier, its free money, and especially when 99% of households NEVER, surpass more than like 30Mbps at one time.
I would say that the average household uses more bandwidth when its freely available and they dont crush each other than many people suspect. Want to watch in HD...no problem, jr wants to pull that massive game patch while you are trying to watch a flick again NO PROBLEM.... you arent going to tick off mom or dad cause there is ample headroom and vice versa
My real issue will be can they deliver that top end speed to all those that sign up for it without negative impacts to their infrastructure... |
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There's little incentive to pay more for speed that you can't use, but 300/75 for $119 is definitely a solid price for that speed, if you should want it when compared to 100/25 for $99.
And I'm assuming these prices are less in Double/Triple Plays for customers getting TV and/or phone service. |
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 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | I see 100/25 for $99. |
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| I was thinking what the Extreme tier currently is. |
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | reply to danclan
said by danclan:My real issue will be can they deliver that top end speed to all those that sign up for it without negative impacts to their infrastructure...
That's what the caps are for, to protect the infrastructure.  |
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I get it now. He works for AT&T.
When he was trolling Google Fiber I thought he was a cable company shill. But nope, cable companies can handle 300 Mbps with DOCSIS 3.0.
This guy must be employed by AT&T U-verse, because they cannot expand their speeds much farther than 30 Mbps. It would make sense to be constantly damage controlling fast Internet speeds whether it's fiber optics or DOCSIS 3.0 cable because he has to help keep a dead-end product like U-verse alive. |
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | reply to osravens
Still, the 300/75 tier is 200% better at only a 20% price increase. |
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said by ITALIAN926:Good deal for who? They would love for everyone to jump on that tier, its free money, and especially when 99% of households NEVER, surpass more than like 30Mbps at one time.
I would like to know where you got 99% of households only using up to 30Mbps at any one time. I see the rise of cloud services making super fast broadband a necessity. Look at why Google is trying to deliver 1Gbps to households. Online services have been on the increase year over year. |
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| Keyword : "rise" , Im talking NOW. |
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Wrong.
You must write chinese fortunes or horoscopes. |
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So you're the wait 'till I need it kind of person. That's fine, some of us like to live in the fast lane. |
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I don't know what your deal is, but it's clear that you work in some industry that would benefit from everyone having mediocre Internet connections. |
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 bohratomJersey Shore will rise again
join:2011-07-07
Red Bank NJ | reply to jmn1207
It's also a good deal for FIOS customers as their 300/65mb service is currently priced at $205. In areas that overlap with comcast I would expect that price to drop almost 50%. |
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ssavoyPremium
join:2007-08-16
Dallas, PA | reply to jmn1207
Proof that the major costs are incurred in the physical network, not bandwidth. |
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danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | reply to 09129800
meh...nm
but comcast has a 300gb soft cap now...with warnings and additional 50GB for i think 20$ |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Linklist
said by Linklist:said by ITALIAN926:Good deal for who? They would love for everyone to jump on that tier, its free money, and especially when 99% of households NEVER, surpass more than like 30Mbps at one time.
The sweet spot is the Performance tier at 25/5 for $49 and is more than enough for most households. Note I said MOST and not ALL households. Charter already offers 30/4 for $50. Though their 100/5 tier for $100 is a joke compared to Comcast's offerings in the speed range. Thought you do get a 500 GB cap vs 300 GB with Comcast. |
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said by ssavoy:Proof that the major costs are incurred in the physical network, not bandwidth. Unfortunately download speed is not the same as bandwidth. |
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If there are warnings and additional charges, that's not a soft cap. A soft cap is a cap which is applied loosely and on a case by case basis to the most data hungry of users. In example, even after the introduction of the 250GB soft cap, I was still doing 300-400GB combined per month of data transfer. But you'll note that in many instances, it was the persons doing in excess of 1TB a month who were receiving warnings for their data transfer. |
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