Author Topic: Comcast Users - Prepare For Changes  (Read 1372 times)

Comcast is making big changes to their network from caps to speed changes.

First up, speed changes.

They are changing two tiers;

Blast users will start getting speeds of 50mbps.
Extreme 50 users will get speeds of 105mbps.

They are also changing caps;

Low tier users will be capped at 300GB, the higher tier users will have a higher cap, I believe extreme 50 and above. This is still not confirmed.

What does this mean? You may need hardware upgrades.  When I first upgraded to Extreme 50 last year I had to upgrade my hardware.  Your cable modem should be DOCSIS 3.0 with 8-channel bonding support, or it should be listed as 8-4 bonding I believe. Not 100% sure. And a gigabit router.  Also, depending on your Ethernet wire you may need to upgrade that too. You may need a cat5 or cat6. I been planning to move my network onto cat6 for a while anyway.

If you use WiFi and want to see them speeds see what kind of wireless network card you have and if it supports the upcoming speed. If not, look into an upgrade.

There is no confirmed date for when this speed change will happen, the bandwidth changes and speed changes will most likely be complete by the end of the summer. So you have plenty of time to decide if you need to upgrade your network or not. If you do decide to upgrade then make sure everything supports IPv6, it will avoid you a headache once stuff starts going IPv6 only.

sweet. :D

and I already have the necessary hardware for this, my router is a beast.

I'm jelly. At best I get about 20mbps. Verizon Internet Services btw.
« Last Edit: June 25, 2012, 07:08:26 AM by Nightmare-Duckie »

Cool. I have blast right now.

so i got a cap now when i didn't before?
keep the old speed and switch to ipv6, i rather stay away from that cap.

Lol download limits.
My provider is stuff and while they give me the 60mb/s I pay for they aren't reliable for stuff.

Christ why would you need that much speed? Unless you're hosting multiple servers that's useless.

22MBPs and fine.

Christ why would you need that much speed? Unless you're hosting multiple servers that's useless.

22MBPs and fine.
>1 mb/s
can you spare me dome bandwidth



no, pay for your own.
ido and we still get piss poor speeds.


switch isps.
the only isp where I am is the one I already use.

the only isp where I am is the one I already use.
move to a place where COX exists.

so i got a cap now when i didn't before?
keep the old speed and switch to ipv6, i rather stay away from that cap.

You already had a cap, you just didn't know about it. It's been 250GB for a long time.

"On October 1, 2008, we amended our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) available at http://www.comcast.net/terms/use/ to establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/month per account for all residential customers."

https://customer.comcast.com/Pages/HelpNFC.aspx?print=false&id=aup-lite
« Last Edit: June 25, 2012, 08:51:37 AM by dkamm65 »