quadhog
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|  Brian Roberts might want your speeds to be faster.
Brian spoke at the Cable-tec Expo in Philadelphia today, one quote that might grab most of your attention is this:
"I think we should be pushing ourselves, even if it means we have to devote more bandwidth because this product is a platform," Roberts said. "We are going up the hockey stick. We should not be satisfied with one-and-a-half Megabits of speed."
How does that sound to you?
Read all about it here:
»www.cedmagazine.com/cedailydirec···0512.htm
~quadhog
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makaze6
join:2002-01-04
| sorry to hijack your thread a little..
but did you notice this one also?
»www.usatoday.com/money/media/200···st_x.htm
they are gonna be testing a DVR (tivo like box) for Philadelphia.. |
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quadhog
join:2002-01-06
USA | Yep, that's the second story in the first link  |
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makaze6
join:2002-01-04 | reply to quadhog
thats what i get for not scrolling down 
looks very promising.. |
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TechnoScott
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I WANT THE UPSTREAM... Gimme 1.5 up and down and then I'll get excited. |
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Agent 86
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Cable has a lot of untapped potential as far as broadband goes. DOCSIS 2.0 is a very minor improvement, a waste of time really.
The cable plant has enormous bandwidth on the downstream side. A mere 6Mhz is currently being used for broadband, less than 1% of the capacity. The upstream side is more limited (less bandwidth, more noise, etc) but it too has untapped potential. |
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MikeStammer
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Aurora, IL | Everything I have heard or read about DOCSIS 2 makes it seem like a vast improvement. Why do you say its minor?
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Archivis
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| A vast improvement over the previous DOCSIS, but compared to the potential of cable could be? Very minor indeed.
Imagine a second cable line run to your house just for broadband, using over 60% of the signal just for downstream, and 20-30% for upstream (leaving a little left for error, correction, etc).
who knows what the possibilities could be.
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skyjock41
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I dont think they should go over 512 upload. Anything over that and youd be putting a serious strain on the current setup. I think they just need to do some price adjusting. Their current PRO plan should be more like 5000/512 and make the normal plan 2500/256. More than likely any changes to which he speaks is 1-2 years out so dont get excited just yet.
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Archivis
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·Verizon FIOS
| skyjock, I think that if any one of these broadband companies want to get a jump ahead of anyone else, they've got to do this sooner than 1-2 years. 1-2 years in this industry is like 5-6 anywhere else. If they really wanted a change to be made, it could be done in 3 months. How quick was our upload put to 256?
I agree that if they were to change the rates for the plans that they would get some serious customers returning (and new ones).
I wouldn't even think about going anywhere else if they put put the 2500down plan in effect.
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skyjock41
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| said by Archivis  :
it could be done in 3 months.
Yes it could but do you really think it will? |
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newview
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Brian Roberts might want your speeds to be faster
quote:
"I think we should be pushing ourselves, even if it means we have to devote more bandwidth because this product is a platform," Roberts said. "We are going up the hockey stick. We should not be satisfied with one-and-a-half Megabits of speed."
OK Brian, you're the boss . . . make it happen.
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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Earth
·Verizon FIOS
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Re: Brian Roberts might want your speeds to be faster.
said by skyjock41 :
Yes it could but do you really think it will?
Upgrading of an entire network in 3 months? Probably not, but I definitely think that if comcast said they're going to do something, it won't take over a year. I think they realize that they'll be shooting themselves in the foot if they took that long.
Not that they care about the customers, but they HAVE to appeal to the customers or they become a sinking ship. It's more of a HAVE TO instead of a WANT TO.
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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This is probably in direct response to Verizon DSL increasing speeds and lowering rates. The Comcast DVR cable box is Comcast's response to DirecTiVo.
So it appears competition is raising the bar in the industry, which is funny since Comcast has no competition in my area. |
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JTRockville
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Didn't Roberts just tell the senate it would be "very logical" to charge according to consumption? said by The Salt Lake Tribune, Dec '02, Comcast Positioned to Foster or Hinder Net's Growth:
Retiring AT&T Chairman Michael Armstrong, now chairman of the new Comcast, said in Senate testimony earlier this year that technology exists to track "Net hogs" and charge them more.
And Roberts told the Senate panel it would be "very logical" to charge according to consumption.
Think he wants to give us all a fatter pipe without fattening up his pockets? |
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Qumahlin
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join:2001-10-05
united state
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said by Archivis :
A vast improvement over the previous DOCSIS, but compared to the potential of cable could be? Very minor indeed.
Imagine a second cable line run to your house just for broadband, using over 60% of the signal just for downstream, and 20-30% for upstream (leaving a little left for error, correction, etc).
who knows what the possibilities could be.
Um a 2nd cable line run to the home just for broadband means running new cables to every subscriber then splitting the way the plant is set up which means hundreds of millions of dollars = not likely
And as for 1.5 down and UP. 1.5 up is not needed by 99% of residential users. If you want a T1 get a T1. Now if I was a TOS nazi i'd start the whole what non server use does 1.5 up have?
How about they offer 1.5 Up BURST and do what OOL is doing now where if you use it for extended periods of time you get capped to 150k for a cpl days till you learn to stop abusing and if it happens to many times you just get perm capped at 150...which is lower then what you have now.
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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·Verizon FIOS
| If it only cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade their entire network to beat out their competition by 3-4 times their regular speed, I'm pretty sure they'd do it. Considering the costs of what they're doing now just to upgrade the AT&T network, hundreds of millions to upgrade an entire company's network to 4x their speed is quite a good deal.
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@68.42.x.x | it costs hundreds of millions for each system.not their entire network all across the US.Comcast has at least 150 different systems.So its not a good deal at all. |
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Archivis
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Earth | Well, I had no idea you were the financial expert for Comcast. How did you come up with these projections?
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@68.42.x.x
| well a quick search on Google would have landed you results.
»Comcast Promises AT&T Improvements
you have no idea what it takes to upgrade a cable plant.do a little research and you will find an answer to the pricing of each component needed to upgrade a plant and you will find out that its not cheap. |
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