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2006.03.08

looks like comcast is going to bump speeds again for their ‘gold’ customers. this time, to 16mbit down, 1mbit up. wahoo!

before i had comcast, i had DSL with speakeasy. i was marginally in the range for DSL at 16000 ft, so i had 300k/128k speeds with them. when i came to comcast, i was impressed with how much faster they were.

upgrade history:

  • 1500/128k/sec (when i signed up in 2002)
  • 1500/256k/sec (upgraded to this shortly thereafter)
  • 3000/256k/sec (sometime in 2003)
  • 4000/384k/sec (summer 2004, tier-2/gold package, turned into standard/bronze package after upgrades)
  • 6000/384k/sec (summer 2005, currently the silver $2/mo package)
  • 6600/768k/sec (winter 2005, tier-2/gold package, upgraded)
  • 8800/768k/sec (fall 2005, tier-2/gold package)

if i confused you with the packages, that’s ok. i meant to because it’s that confusing.

there’s no indication of the any speed changes for bronze/standard or silver/upgraded customers and there’s no indication of a rollout plan. ed: rollout plan for Summer 2006, much like previous years.
exciting times. 🙂

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  1. Wow! I’m going to have to really consider the Gold package if it’s up to 1Mb upload. 16Mb download? Crazy!

    jefflundberg, March 8, 2006
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  2. Personally, i’m waiting for the really cheap “balsa wood” plan for about 2 bucks a month giving me 1k/1k/sec… but always on, so it’s better than dialup

    jer, March 8, 2006
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