sortofageek
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October 30th, @03:29PM
| Is Blast! available in your area? - Not PowerBoost
»Blast! Tier Availability in Maryland
»Blast! Tier Availability in Massachusetts
»Blast! Tier Availability in New Jersey
»Blast! Tier Availability in Pennsylvania
»Blast! Tier Availability in Virginia
What is Blast?
It is described under the Comcast HSI pricing structure here: »/faq/7024 Blast! is an actual speed upgrade to 16/1 or 16/2, which will be reflected in measures of actual download and upload. Because of PowerBoost, you cannot demonstrate the Blast! upgrade has been received. You can tell by measure of actual download and upload of large files, by looking at the capped speed in some modems' diagnostic pages, or by charges on your Comcast bill (if you have actually ordered the Blast! tier.)
We're getting enough reports here, official and permanent or not, we probably should separate these out to a topic of their own.
Please make sure you actually have Blast (high sustained speeds) and not PowerBoost before posting in this topic.
Tell us:
1. Your location
2. Whether FIOS is available in your area or not.
READ THIS FIRST!
READ THIS, TOO!
ok, make us all drool. 
See also:
»[Speed] No Blast for Houston
»Odd...powerboost not shutting off for me
»Delaware County PA 16/2 node upgrades are now completed
»Delaware County, PA almost done 16/2 node upgrades
»West Chester, Bethal, KOP and Media PA 16/2 next few weeks
»New Speeds in Phila area starting 10/17
»16/1 speeds in philadelphia suburbs
»How much is 16/1?
»[Speed] 16/1 Blackwood, NJ
»Is this 16/1?
»[Speed] Anyone in Philly 19146 have 16/1 yet?
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chia
join:2003-12-20
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| Re: [Speed] Post here about the new 16/1 speeds
Would be helpful if those posting about receiving speed upgrades also post whether FIOS is available in their market.
Not getting my hopes up since Comcast has no competition (speed wise) here in my area.  |
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grazed
join:2006-10-15
Havertown, PA
| fios is not available in my area. (i had the post from the OP, 2nd one down)
it's odd though, we had verizon dig up a large portion of our main line for about 2/3 of a 3 year period just to lay fiber optic lines. that only ended 2 years ago, and was only a few blocks from my street.. not sure why we havn't gotten it yet, seeing that we're so close to what seems to be one of their main hubs in the area. |
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Homebrew1994
Betzwood Basement Brewery
join:2001-11-15
King Of Prussia, PA
·Comcast
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October 19th, @08:02AM
| reply to sortofageek
King of Prussia, PA (Philly burbs)
No Fios in my House |
I know, Miami is too far away to test well, but the NJ test site was busy.
And in answer to the question about FIOS competition, it is not available here.
Edit: test to NJ on Thurs morning;
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chia
join:2003-12-20
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Congrats! I take it you are on the silver tier. Maybe there is a sliver of hope for the rest of us after all. |
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Scree
In the pipe 5 by 5
join:2001-04-24
Mount Laurel, NJ
| reply to sortofageek
Re: [Speed] Post here about the new 16/1 speeds
Noticed the change late Wed. night (10/18) when came back to the computer and downloaded something around 100 MB, was like "woah, why is that over 8 Mbps speed being sustained for so long?!! Did they extend the time for PowerBoost??" LOL Seems the modem rebooted itself some time in the evening. Download speed varies a bit as expected, and peeks up to 16.2 Mbps at times (tested with a commercial newsgroup service download). Upload speed to a server I use is a solid 140 KB/sec (so actually 1.09375 Mbps)! Wild. Downloading and uploading at the same time do affect each other a bit, usually coming out to around 13 Mbps down and 110-118 KB/sec up. Not bad at all, the extra $10 finally feels worth something! Wow, I almost remember original uncapped @Home days now... hehe |
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Steely
I used to have OOL
Premium
join:2000-10-15
Princeton Junction, NJ
| So you didn't have to power cycle your modem to obtain the new speeds? They just appeared?
BTW, still at the old "silver tier" speeds here. 
Download Speed: 20851 kbps (2606.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 354 kbps (44.3 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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Scree
In the pipe 5 by 5
join:2001-04-24
Mount Laurel, NJ
| said by Steely  :So you didn't have to power cycle your modem to obtain the new speeds? They just appeared? At least for me, yep. The modem definitely rebooted itself while I was away, because I noticed my upstream channel ID changed. |
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Boqu
@comcast.net
| reply to sortofageek
Well I had the new speeds but now theyre gone I received the Letter Tuesday. Tuesday night I was seeing 12 Megs sustained down. Wednesday I Exchanged my modem because I had a very old surboard 4100. Now I just get a capped 8 Megs .
I notice the letter said free for "Existing" customers. I hope my modem exchange didnt screw it up. Maybe Im in the system as a new customer now , and cant be sent the 16 meg .cfg after a power cycle I'll give it a few days , because I hate dealing with Comcast directly. Ill inquire about that and wind up w/ TV & Phove shutoff or something lol.
Quincy MA |
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JamesDax
join:2001-02-24
Philadelphia, PA | reply to sortofageek
What the frak about Philly???? |
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Sanyo2
@umb.edu | Boqu, you're from Quincy and you got the letter? I'm from Hull, only a few towns over, and nothing here yet. You guys dont have FIOS yet do you? |
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Naediel
join:2003-02-08
Chalfont, PA | reply to sortofageek
No upgrade in New Britain TWP, PA yet.
And we can't get FiOS yet, but the neighborhood across the street can. |
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minkink
join:2006-01-05
Milton, MA | reply to sortofageek
to the guy from Quincy we do not have it yet. If we did I would have it. I am in Milton and we are on the same system. Sooo just a heads up. I could be wrong but im pritty sure nothing at the moment ill inquire for us. |
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Johkal
Cool Cat
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-13
Happy Valley
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| reply to Naediel
said by Naediel :No upgrade in New Britain TWP, PA yet. And we can't get FiOS yet, but the neighborhood across the street can. What neighborhood would that be?
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AndrewNewton
join:2003-09-12
Chestnut Hill, MA
| reply to sortofageek
I posted in another thread but for completeness here, we live in Newton, MA and got the letter Wednesday. We have FIOS in our town as well as RCN's internet cable service. Without my doing anything I got speeds of 9-13Meg down and 900+ up Wednesday afternoon but saw no power boost kick in when I downloaded large files: the download rate was a constant. Today however, I grabbed a tv show from the UK and power boost definitely kicked in..peaking to 20-25Meg for the transfer. |
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minkink
join:2006-01-05
Milton, MA
| reply to sortofageek
Just an update I asked comcast about the Quincy/Milton area this is my conversation that took 30 minutes.
Problem : Connection/Speed
Deborah > Thank you for contacting Comcast, my name is Deborah, how may I assist you today.
Matthew > hi
Matthew > I was just wondering do you have any info on if or when my area will be getting the 16/1 update
Matthew > or should I expect to wait till FIOS
Deborah > I can help you with that, can you hold for one moment while I process your information?
Matthew > yup
Deborah > I appreciate your patience; I am still working on this for you, would you mind holding for a little longer?
Matthew > no problem
Deborah > Could you please verify the username that you would like me to reset the password for?
Matthew > ?
Matthew > no password reset
Deborah > sorry incorrect response
Matthew > information on 16/1 speed update...
Deborah > This is not available in you area at this time.
Deborah > I am unsure of the time frame I would give a check back around November 17th.
Matthew > ok
Matthew > thanks
Deborah > You're Welcome and sorry for the delay.
Matthew > bye
I should mention I was on hold for about 25 minutes before she returned and asked what the account that needed to be reset was. F&&k you Comcast. |
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mloebl
join:2003-01-03
Ayer, MA
| November COULD make sense because the tech I spoke to via live chat said in the next 3 mos for Massachusetts areas with FIOS. However I remember when I got the 8mb/s upgrade I asked them and she said no idea when it was coming, then I reset my modem that afternoon and I had it.
-Mike |
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cjoseph82
join:2006-07-30
Wilmington, DE | I'm in Wilmington, DE. Has anyone heard about 16/1 rollout to DE? |
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asteriskuser
@comcast.net
| reply to sortofageek
Fios is nowhere near me (Pennsburg, PA, closest fios deployment I've heard of is 30-40 miles away), but we terminate out of an area close to it (New Hanover, PA), so we've got the upgrade. Yaay!
I received the snailmail notification of the upgrade a couple weeks ago, but the new speed didn't show up for me at first. After some back and forth with Comcast and having a tech out, it turns out that while my motorola sb4200 could handle the 8mbit tier just fine, with the addition of bursting and the subsequent 16mbit upgrade, it somehow got stuck at ~6mbit even though it was getting the 16mbit config file and used to manage 8mbit just fine. Weeeeeird. Swapped it out for an sb5120 after a tech came out to check my lines and swap a questionable filter and grounding block and BAM, 16mbit from the 5120 when the 4200 could only manage 6....
I remember hearing some of the sb4100s couldn't handle the 8mbit tier originally, but I didn't think this affected me. Looks like it did.
Word to the wise: if you think you should have the upgrade and don't see it, it might be time to try a new modem. |
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madrox07
join:2006-10-20
Chicago, IL
moderated:
June 10th, @11:33AM
| reply to sortofageek
CHECK THIS OUT IN CHICAGO
Last Result:
Download Speed: 22586 kbps (2823.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 356 kbps (44.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Mod Note: This is PowerBoost and is not relevant to this topic. |
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