Comcast Ups Upload Speeds

Friday June 13, 2008

Categories:

Tags:

Comcast

Comcast said Thursday that it will increase the upload speeds of two tiers of service, providing a faster way for customers to upload files.

The upload performance of the Performance and Performance Plus tiers will increase at no additional cost. Comcast will nearly triple the upload speed of its 6 Mbits/s / 384 Kbits/s Performance tier to 6 Mbps / 1 Mbps and more than double the upload speed of its 8 Mbps / 768 Kbps Performance Plus tier to 8 Mbps / 2 Mbps, the company said.

Comcast also employs a technology called PowerBoost, where customers can see their download speeds increase during periods of little traffic. At PowerBoost speeds, the Performance download speed will jump to 12 Mbps, while the Performance Plus tier will increase to 16 Mbps. No word on how the 16 Mbps "Blast" tier was affected.

Comcast notes that the company is currently in DOCSIS 3.0 trials, and is trialing 50 Mbps services in the Twin Cities, with hopes to bring 100 Mbps and even 150 Mbps services to customers in the future. But with Comcast also exploring ways to meter Internet bandwidth, are faster speeds just a trap for the unwary consumer?

Stumble |

Digg |

del.icio.us |

Slashdot

Posted By: Mark Hachman

Comments (0)

Tell a friend about this post

Name:*

Email Address:*

Your URL: (optional)

Remember Me?

Comments:* (you may use HTML tags for style)

Please keep your comments on topic. Intelligent, thoughtful comments and questions are appreciated. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Comments containing personal information such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, or addresses may be edited or removed. Comments with advertisements will be removed.