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more about #cablevision OCEntertainment: Man, alive, I look forward to the day that this is commonplace. That being said, I'm just looking at upgrading from 1.5 Mbps to 18 Mbps in the coming... more » bonedog73: 100Mbps....so how long would it take to hit that 250GB limit with a steady 100Mbps stream?? more » .357: I'm just going to create my own ISP. I will call it Kickass Interwebs. more » jonhapimp: it probably would be expensive as hell though to install more » Epoch: speaking of did anybody what?? i'm eagerly awaiting the end of that sentence. more » Monty: When the local cable company here uses "high speed fiber backbone" as a key selling point of their product, I automatically discount anything a cable ... more » kahri: Verizon: We could do 400Mbps. Cablevision: Nuh-uh! Verizon: Yah-huh! Cablevision: Why don't you? Verizon: Shut up-ah! more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: IIRC, cable's speed slows as more and more users jump on the line. Unlike FiOS where the fiber is brought into your home, w/cable, you have to use th... more » Theimbellis: Who needs 400MBPS, seriously? For HD porn, we assume. more » MrBlahBlah: Wow time warner you really are a piece of shit. all I'm getting is 15 down and .5 up. more » TheSonOfKrypton: It's funny...Sometimes you get so much of something (or in this case, something gets so fast) that you have to ask yourself: When is enough, enough? ... more » OMG! Ponies!: I can live without that kind of speed if Cablevision can improve HD picture quality. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with Cablevision, even if James Dola... more » sostoudt: verizon doesnt cap, and its service is much faster then comcasts. get it when you can, hell even there cable package is better. more » iatacs19: How big is Cablevision's market share? more » Kaiser-Machead: I grow weary of these Scientific Atlantic boxes. I want to grind them. I want to put them into a giant blender, and pulverize these wretched set-top t... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "UPDATE: It has come to our attention that some neighborhoods do require a box." Is there any way of finding out which neighborhoods require it and wh... more » warf0x0r: SCIENTIFIC ATLANTIC BOXES ARE TEH SUC!!! more » ZLevee: It actually sounds more like they were trying to say that if you don't have a built-in digital tuner, your "cable-ready TV" will still need a digital ... more » davezatz: Actually, in more and more regions cable-cos are going all digital. The first neighborhoods seem to be high density, like Brooklyn, as a means of prev... more » mnerd: If they were so knowing, he should have advised them to get a 40 dollar converter box. Cable should not have even come up in this situation. more » -
#broadband
Comcast's New 100Mbps Cable Service Edges Us Closer to Japan-Level Broadband, Sort Of
Comcast just launched a new high-speed 100Mbps cable service in Minneapolis and St. Paul, making it the second provider to offer next-level speeds to a small market for a crazy price. More » -
#internet
Google on How to Change the Internet: You Should Own Your Broadband Pipes
Google policy analyst Derek Slater—who's so obviously related to Christian Slater—explains how to reshape broadband in the US. Step one: Own the actual pipes that run to your house. More » -
#broadband
Verizon: 'We Could Offer 400Mbps, We Just Don't Feel Like It'
Verizon decided to respond to Cablevision's new limited 101Mbps service, and, well, it's a bit contradictory. More » -
#godzillainternet
Suck It, Fiber: America's Fastest Internet 101Mbps Delivered by Cablevision
Holy. I knew the fruits of cable's fiber-fast DOCSIS 3.0 standard would be delicious, but this is incredible: Cablevision's going to sell the fastest internet in the US next month: 101 blazing megabits per second. More » -
#cablevision
Cablevision Scamming People Into Getting Converter Box With Basic Service
A Consumerist reader looking to hook up basic service to a cable-ready TV was told by Cablevision that a converter box would be needed "no matter what." He was also accused of being "disrespectful." More » -
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#cable
CableCard Users Are Getting Screwed Out of HD Channels
Our friend Gary Merson, the HD Guru, has uncovered an issue that may soon piss you off. Cable customers who use the current CableCard to decode signal directly in their TV, a TiVo or Windows Media Center PC may soon start losing HD channels because of a change in technology. To conserve bandwidth, cable carriers are moving from a direct stream of video to "switched digital video," which use two-way digital cable boxes to see what customers need then send it to them. CableCards are only one-way, so they can't make use of any SDV coming down the pipes. What does this mean? Merson says that as of April 15, Cablevision has cut off CableCard access to 15 Voom HD channels, and Time Warner will apparently make similar cuts. More »
