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.
