Comcast: "Starting today, new and existing customers can take advantage of the following speed increases:
Connect: 75 Mbps to 150 Mbps,
Connect More: 200 Mbps to 300 Mbps,
Fast: 400 Mbps to 500 Mbps,
Xfinity Prepaid: 50 Mbps to 200 Mbps"
https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-boosts-speeds-xfinity-internet-customers
“at no additional cost” - my bill went up nearly 25% in January. Their generosity is underwhelming.
ah yes, faster speeds so we can run out of the 1.2 TB / month quota faster
data caps on fiber should be illegal
Data caps on any fixed location internet service should be illegal.
Overselling then blocking customers from being able to use what they paid for is fraud.
Customer service: 5-7 business days on hold and only one “courtesy disconnect”
If my Comcast didn’t go down for 10 minutes at a time, 3 or 4 times a day, I would not be getting fiber in the next 11 days. So, fuck off Comcast.
After several decades of exclusive rights, Comcast finally lost their legal monopoly in my town, and holy shit things are so much better. I’m paying $90 for 10gbs(!) fiber through a local provider when my parents back home are paying $30 more than that for 50mbs through Comcast.
Cable companies can all suck it. Do you know how they started out? As antenna farms. They put OTA antennas up on the top of hills they owned the land on so nobody else could (aka a monopoly on something that wasn’t theirs) and ran two conductor (not coax) cable down to the valley where people couldn’t get OTA signal, and charged for it. They literally began that way, as leaches selling free-to-air signal to a captive audience. They do that to this very day, with additional
evil shitvalue added services.Meanwhile no mention about their limited upload speeds.
I’m really just watching out for any upload speed increases. At this point, I don’t care about download speed increases, I just want upload speeds to increase. The only mention of it in that article is their plans to implement DOCSIS 4.0 later this year, which should increase upstream and downstream capacity. However, still no mention of how long it may take to be fully implemented.
