GNG News Guy
04-23-2008, 10:29 AM
A few weeks ago, Comcast launched their first pre-certification DOCSIS 3.0 market (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/93234), offering $150, 50Mbps/5Mbps service in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. A few users in our forums have had their installs completed, and state that the company is using Scientific Atlanta (Cisco) DPC2505 modems for the service (see pdf product guide (http://www.scientificatlanta.com/products/consumers/userguidepdfs/webstar_userguides/4015259.pdf)).
There doesn't appear to be all that many users who can afford that price point, but those who can have started posting photos and speedtests (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20320179-) in our forums. Speedtests look good, though several users say they've had to swap out older routers to take advantage of the speed.
Still no confirmation on whether your $150 service still comes with forged TCP RST packets and throttled BitTorrent uploads, but we're hoping to conduct some tests with one user shortly. Any other users who've had Comcast's new tier installed care to show us your wares or share install impressions?
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Show-Us-Your-50Mbps-93814)
There doesn't appear to be all that many users who can afford that price point, but those who can have started posting photos and speedtests (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r20320179-) in our forums. Speedtests look good, though several users say they've had to swap out older routers to take advantage of the speed.
Still no confirmation on whether your $150 service still comes with forged TCP RST packets and throttled BitTorrent uploads, but we're hoping to conduct some tests with one user shortly. Any other users who've had Comcast's new tier installed care to show us your wares or share install impressions?
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Show-Us-Your-50Mbps-93814)