After recently settling the anti-p2p debate by announcing they would not in future purely target P2P with their throttling, Comcast have decided to offer even faster connections speeds
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080402-comcast-launches-50mbps-broadband-for-150-per-month.htmlComcast has been promising that DOCSIS 3.0 goodness would be coming to its customers this year, and the cable giant is about to make good.
Starting tomorrow, Comcast's new "extreme high-speed" Internet tier will be available to subscribers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, including Hudson, Wisconsin. Download speeds will top out at 50Mbps while uploads will be capped at 5Mbps. But all of that speed comes at a price: $149.95 per month for consumers, and $199.95 per month for business class service.
Geeks around the country have been salivating at the thought of 50Mbps downloads, and it's great to see such high speeds finally spreading beyond Verizon's FiOS network. The price is likely to be a deal-breaker for a lot of people.
You have to question this sort of hyped deployment, first this company says traffic is so vast they need to steal bandwidth back off their customers by stealth and now it seems they have plenty to spare.... for a price.
I wonder if the "Uber Service" users will enjoy reading their email at great speeds , after all that is the only service they seem to not be attacking so far.
