>Comcast today announced it will launch Extreme 250, a new 250 Mbps Internet speed tier for California customers. The company also will increase its Performance tier from 50 Mbps to 75 Mbps and its Blast tier from 105 Mbps to 150 Mbps, both at no additional cost to customers. These changes will go into effect starting in May and continue throughout the year.
>In addition, Comcast will roll out its residential multi-gigabit broadband service to nearly three million California homes starting in June. Gigabit Pro is a symmetrical, 2 Gigabit-per-second service that will be delivered via a fiber-to-the-home solution and offered to customers in the Chico, Fresno, Marysville/Yuba City, Merced, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara County, Stockton and Visalia metro areas*.
Who's going to upgrade to 250Mbps? Who is going to pay insane amounts for a 2Gbps installation? Who else gonna be upgraded to 150 for free tier?
It's going to feel odd not having shit Internet in Stockton.
>>47601564
>The company also will increase its Performance tier from 50 Mbps to 75 Mbps and its Blast tier from 105 Mbps to 150 Mbps
Hold your fucking dicks, is this also only in Cali?
>>47601564
Get the fuck outta here cumcast.
Fuck Comcast.
I don't care what they offer. They are literally the worst company to ever exist.
>>47601586
Not just California, but where ever they are doing the fiber rollout, which is Norcal and Atlanta and other places to be announced. Socal doesn't get it.
I just dropped comcast. well tuesday i am. I am gettinv century link. sure my speed is nice. but my fucking bill is $170 a month. they tax the fuck out of everything. even shit i don't have. horrible company
>250Mbps
kek, I wonder how many plebs with 100base-T equipment are going to blame comcast for false advertising
>>47601611
Ok, when will the east coast get 250 mbps internet.
Meanwhile the Philadelphia area gets jack shit, even though the state gave them $35 million in grants to build their second skyscraper. Thanks comcast
>>47601564
I wonder when some of these cities got a fiber network. I never heard of fiber being laid in norcal, neat. Too bad Cuntcast took this long to either use their own network if it was theirs or buy rights to it if it's not. I fucking get so mad when I realize an area has fiber just sitting under the fucking ground.
It's about time, Christ in a hand basket it's 2015 this is about 5 years overdue.
>mfw they will still be capped at 250GB
>My state is installing municipal fiber
>My town didn't apply
>Deadline was in December, found out about it yesterday
Feels bad man
>>47601689
Fuck, this area is not part of the bandwidth cap yet, though Cuntcast said they are making it nationwide. Do you think they will roll that cap out at the same time as the speed increase? I hope that is delayed. ;_;
>>47601689
>yfw just downloading GTAV would use more than a quarter of your cap
caps are fucking retarded
>>47601730
they always find a way to fuck you over. i bet they'll charge you a monthly fee for their "special" modem.
>>47601808
My modem doesn;t need upgrading to get any of the new speeds that are part of the free upgrades, but yeah, the fiber shit they force you to use their shit and charge for it. Logan from Tek Syndicate tried to get a business connection from them and they said he would have to use their shit.
>meanwhile the city in which comcast's headquarters is located in get only 25mbps
At least we get the jobs
>>47601808
Comcast lets you use your own router. I think the only cheap ones that support 250mbps are Netgear CM500 and Arris SB6183
>>47601564
>time warner rep knocks on door
>tells me about new 50mbps connection
>tell him I've had it for a year
>asks if I want to upgrade to 75mbps plan or add cable
>tell him he can't even saturate my 50mbps connection at lowest traffic hours
>tell him time warner is shit and I would switch if I had literally any other option
I already called their office for our town and complained for a discount on top of my military discount so I what I pay is closet in line to the ~15mbps they give me. Sucks I had to make it awkward for a middle man.
>>47601850
Since fucking when? I know you can buy the modem they give you, but i was not aware you could fucking bring your own.
>>47601874
Try not to be a dick to them, they are just making a living like you are. You can bitch Cuntcast out but at least say "I know it's your job, but".
200 mb/s TWC master race coming through
>>47601646
never, unless you're in a city
>>47601916
>TWC
>under a Gbps
>america
>master anything
>>47601611
>Atlanta
Ofcourse they'll roll it out in Atlanta, ever since google anounced they're bringing fiber there Cucholdcast has been shitting its britches.
>>47601938
There is no competition from Google or any other fiber planned in Norcal, except San Jose is in the running to be a Google Fiber city. Why did they expand to so much of Norcal with fiber if Google isn't there?
>>47601964
Probably know something you don't.
>>47601912
Yeah I've been in their shoes, so I try to be nice to entry level workers. He seemed kind of high up to be doing personal door-to-doors,though
Neat, I'm in the Gigabit Pro footprint. Thank you google for pressuring these faggots.
>>47602007
How do you know? Gotta link to a map?
>>47601611
>Socal doesn't get it.
There are socal locations in that press release
I live in California's hat AKA Oregon
can I have some fast internet too?
>>47601990
Because there's actual competition regardless of what the retards on /g/ say.
>>47601665
There's a lot of fiber in NorCal that's been laid decades ago, just never used, called dark fiber. I believe it was laid so that companies like AT&T can lay claim or fulfill some legal obligation and never used it. Problem is, other companies have to go through a bunch of shit to even touch it so expansion by them is stunted.
>>47602028
I don't need a map, I live across the street from the NOC for the largest city in one of the counties mentioned. The Socal field office is across town.
>>47602036
Central Valley Socal, Fresno and Visalia, Santa Barbara county is the only "socal" area listed, really.
>>47602061
Southern California is TWC territory and TWC already has implemented MAXX in the LA area.
>>47602061
It's the only county that matters in Southern California. Looking forward to muh gigabit speedz.
>>47602049
>"competition"
>huge swathes of the country are dominated by only single providers
>"wtf stop complaining just move"
>>47601935
TWC does not give a fuck. Torrent all the shit I want and my connects pretty damn steady. They only fuck you over if you pay for the lowest internet.
>>47602077
That's just cable providers theres also a ton of DSL (which can be faster than cable) and fiber optic companies.
So then tell me why Comcast is upgrading their speeds in California where there's supposedly no competition and TWC upgrading a ton of areas where they also don't have any competition, according to you.
Do they give you 10 GbE ethernet routers and cards for free or something? How will you use the 2 gigabits?
>tfw AT&T monopoly
>6Mb down, 0.5 up
>$80/month
>>47602121
>comecast
>give something away for free
good one
>>47602110
>upgrading speeds
>tell you I will give you 250mbps instead of 50mbps for only $50 more!
>your actual speed still limps around 15mbps
>>47602216
Give me up to 250mbps I'll pay up to $50 more.
>mfw 50Mbps available through my shitty small town cable provider
>mfw on cheapest 16Mbps plan
What the fuck do people even do with 250Mbps+?
I'd like a more symmetric connection (20/20 or something like that would be awesome) since do a fair amount of streaming and downloading files from home file server, but 2Gbps? Come on now.
>>47602282
I would be content with 20/20. The biggest thing I ever download is the occasional movie, which is at most 10GB.
The problem, though, is nobody offers symmetrical connections. I don't think I could get a 20Mb up speed in my city.
>tfw rural
>tfw no terrestrial broadband
>tfw satellite
>tfw 12 meg connection
>tfw 10 gig cap
>tfw no streaming
>tfw it drops to ~400 kilobit after the cap
>tfw .zip, .rar, mega, apt repos, yum repos, torrents, and YT are blocked after 10 gigs.
>tfw newegg and amazon load so slowly I can't shop after the cap is hit
>tfw paying $70 a month for this shit
>>47602329
I genuinely feel sorry for you.
>>47602329
>living in the middle of nowhere
Ya dun goof'd
>>47602216
if you don't get near advertised speeds you should complain, you fucking retard.
>>47602241
You'll likely never get anywhere close to advertised speeds in a city with over 5k people under Comcast or time warner
>>47601564
>Comcast scared to shit of google fibre
Top lel. Remember when google fiber was first rolling out the CEO said no one wants gigabit internet?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4400382/comcast-google-fiber-gigabit-broadband-internet
Cc and twc, not even once
...even though I have them because they're the only option in my area
>>47602329
At least you got 4chan
>>47602355
I do. >>47601874 is me. Was trying to point out that what they advertise and what you get is vastly different 90% of time. It was even worse when I lived in San Antonio: pay for 50mbps, get .3 during peak hours and 3 rest of day
>>47602098
>they only fuck you over if you're poor
Makes sense
>>47602363
I don`t think that`s a bonus anon
>>47602358
Eh, he's kind of right, a lot of people don't give a shit.
Still not much reason not to go ahead and offer it for the few who do want it, though.
>>47602382
Welcome to life.
>>47602329
Stop living in a flyover state.
>>47602394
And people didn't give a shit about a responsive touch interface until apple showed them how good it could be. I didnt think i needed anything more than a tn monitor until i got an ips. Most people don't care, I agree. They will care when they find out they can be paying less money for 10x the speed.
Comcast is going to get its just desserts soon enough, and god will I be happy. If for no other reason then I'll be able to have good internet at a reasonable price like the rest of the developed world.
>>47601564
>at no additional cost
the additional cost is with the lower data caps and frequent throttling
>>47602480
