Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It? - Gizmodo Comments

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

mikemacman — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:40:05 EDT

Reboot your cable modem if you live in the Twin Cities!

I live near St. Paul, MN. I tried a uploading some files today with my Comcast cable modem and I was seeing the usual 350kbps. I rebooted my cable modem and now I'm getting 800kbps. I'm not sure why I'm maxing out at 100kilobytes / sec but it is a much needed improvement! Reboot your cable modem and you'll see the speed gains!

mikemacman

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

-Core- — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:01:13 EDT

"160Mbps downstream and 120" I would be satisfied with 10d/2up, and a steady rock solid connection.

Would I pay 150.00 a month..? Yes I would if I could afford it and needed that speed. Other wise no. Because I don't need that much speed.. and I can't afford it.

For those people that are constantly on the go, just hustle and bustle and only have about two hrs to themselves for personal time. I can see it being beneficial for downloading movies. I'm sure there are people that will buy it.

for 10/2 I would gladly pay 50.00 a month.

-Core-

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

jiganto — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:30:07 EDT

It's not worth it, there's absolutely nothing available right now that would require that kind of bandwidth. Even streaming 720p over the internets doesn't need half that bandwidth. That and paying $150 a month for pirating things is stupid, you can just pay a 3rd of that and then go out and buy 2 games or 5 movies. For gaming this is pointless too, it's entirely possible to get really good pings even with crappy DSL. Until there's something that can utilize this much bandwidth, it's kind of pointless.

jiganto

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Tensor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:11:01 EDT

@Thrillcekr: LOL, at leat i can pay for the 100mbps line and have 170 to spare ... Tho i'd guess that not speaking Korean is a big impediment.

Tensor

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

thesum — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:14:04 EDT

Yeah, I pretty much agree with the other posters around here. 5-10 is more than enough for me.

$150 is pretty steep, but with 150mbps I would like to have it connected at home just for a day to test it vs. my current 10.

thesum

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

godwhacker — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:53:08 EDT

here on the other side of the river from st paul, i have comcrap, and i am pretty ok with my 12 meg down, and my up is just under 500k, for $45.00 a month

i just dont know if the extra speed is worth 3x the dough, although one of the kids was running windows live and that was a serious bandwidth hog

if they put it in here, as part of an upgrade to their network, and only charged $10.00 more, i would be on that for sure

living in the peoples republic of minnesota aint all its cracked up to be, the taxes go up every year on the old homestead at a 10-15% clip, and i still have to drive on a freeway system that hasnt been seriously upgraded in 25 years,and the local hippie politicos are more concerned with their useless social engineering projects, than hiring more cops to jail the habitual welfare cases that cause most of the crime.

another few years, and i will be blowing this hellhole for the god-forsaken praire, where i will build stuff, and keep old cars running for the locals

godwhacker

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

demonspawn2578 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:06:21 EDT

This posting is an example as to why Gizmodo is superior to Engadget. "No, it won't blow you." Lolz

demonspawn2578

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

mkeadle — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:11:45 EDT

I've had 30/5 through FIOS for 3+ years now. And luckily I'm in an area where Verizon is competing heavily w/ Comcast, so it's only ~$50/month.

Have I been Japan-fast and unaware?!

mkeadle

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

TerryinSt.Paul — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:18:40 EDT

I have comcast at work and I am in St. Paul(hence the moniker). We have their modem (6g service) hooked up to our Linksys WRT54G, and on speedtest.net, I can hit download speeds of around 30,000 kps. All 5 of our computers can do that too. If you are in the twin cities and you are stuck with comcrap, try it. It's $45 at Best buy.

TerryinSt.Paul

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

GottaGo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:59:56 EDT

@matto: when I ping various common sites I get high-teens ms response (typically 16 - maybe sometimes 20 ms). That's probably not stellar I suppose, but I'm not waiting for pages to load, ever. My experience with bad latency on other connections, is that you sit there and wait . . . . and finally the page pops up (so, sure it's fast, but it takes a while to actually get the data). Here, not so. The pages just pop up without any perceptible waiting for them. I suspect that the vendor keeps the hops to a minimum from building to building.

GottaGo

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Whisssper — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:27:00 EDT

man i guess im lucky here in sweden with my 100/10 mbit for 30 bucks... plus the chicks here are hot :P

Whisssper

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Worf — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:08:49 EDT

Guys, it's Comcast. You expect P2P goodness from them?

They're under fire for their BitTorrent "network management".

WHat's the point of 150Mbps if you can't use it?

Worf

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

uberfu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:35:20 EDT

Makes no snse Giz - 160Mbps down stream - but the option is only 50Mbps for $150_

So if I want the full 160Mbps I have to shell out $500?

uberfu

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

AGROS — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:32:15 EDT

All I know is this is the kind of Competition I like.... LET THEM FIGHT!!

AGROS

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

majortom1981 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:21:36 EDT

Id rather stick with cablevision boost which uses docsis 2 is 38/5 and has ports 80 and 25 open, webspace , and web and email servers allowed. Cablevision also took the capping away and the throttling.

majortom1981

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Geisrud — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:58:27 EDT

@92BuickLeSabre: That's funny, because that's exactly what she called me! And who told you you about the incident with the fire hydrant?

Geisrud

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

charliedigital — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:36:47 EDT

The funny thing?

Docsis 3.0 works by bonding together four channels - each could otherwise be used for an analog TV broadcast - and allowing them to be used as one big data pipe. In regions where infrastructure is constrained, Comcast will make room for the expanded bandwidth by pulling back some analog channels and using sometimes controversial compression techniques on its other bundled services.

Right. So you lose a few analog channels and get more compression artifacts on your HD signals for the privilege of paying $150/mo for mostly unusable bandwidth (not to mention throttling and traffic shaping). Also, there's no mention of the current limitation on upspeeds with DOCSIS 3.0.

According to the Arstechnica article on the same topic:

There's something for the rest of Comcast's Twin Cities' subscribers as well. Those on the lowest, 6Mbps/384Kbps tier will see their upload speeds jump to 1Mbps. 8Mbps Performance Plus customers will see 1Mbps upload speeds double to 2Mbps. (Arstechnica)

This is of course in addition to the fact that Comcast still doesn't have the upstream bonding completely ready for rollout yet:

Comcast's first implementation of the standard will be downstream-only. According to Cable Digital News, that's not due to Comcast cutting corners-DOCSIS upstream channel bonding probably won't be available until late 2008-early 2009. (Arstechnica)

Meanwhile, I'm sitting here posting this message on a FiOS 20/20 symmetrical for $70/mo. As an added bonus, I've been able to actually use the full 20Mbps upstream: screen cap.

charliedigital

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Nyle — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:25:05 EDT

......and they still won't let you run a "server" on it. Why would I need that much bandwidth unless it's completely open to the Interent without firewall or bandwidth shaping?

Now if for that price they included all the channels I get from cable streamed - it's a deal. ;^)

Nyle

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

lilaliendog — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:14:59 EDT

screw you comcast. If that shit doesn't come down to 10 dollars per 10mbps starting at 30 you can count me out.

lilaliendog

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:17:25 EDT

@Geisrud: Of course, if your paying $10 or less you live with the knowledge that she'd love that leafless shrub on the corner next to the fire hydrant just as much.

92BuickLeSabre

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Geisrud — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:58:46 EDT

And no, it won't blow you.

I never pay more than $10 for that anyways. AND she love me long time.

Geisrud

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Thrillcekr — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:34:56 EDT

@Tensor: The part he left out is that you'll be working for 200 bucks a month.

Thrillcekr

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

BadBoyNDSU — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:22:03 EDT

@PiNPOiNT: I live in the twin cities and I've gotten that stupid phone call before. If I wasn't worried about getting it again I would sign up for this service in a heartbeat. So fuck you Comcast, you just lost my extra hundred bucks.

BadBoyNDSU

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

oakie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:22:12 EDT

too bad las vegas has been monopolized. we'll never get this OR FiOS out here.

oakie

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

kindall — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:40:42 EDT

I'm paying $95 a month now for the Comcast commercial service with static IP, so if they did start offering this in Seattle, I might well spring for it, assuming it's a commercial-grade service. And I cannot imagine Seattle won't be high on the list, since FIOS is available in some of the area.

kindall

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

matto — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:57:04 EDT

@GottaGo: But what's the latency? Multihop RF could really suck.

matto

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

GottaGo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:26:24 EDT

Here in San Fran, a lot of the SOMA condo buildings have service from a company called WebPass, which puts microwave transceivers on the tops of buildings and bounces the signal around the building tops around here. My building has it, I got it, and it's $30/month, 45MBPS Synchronous service. It's really about 30 MBPS in practice, but that down AND up. Sustained; not burst. For $30. A month. Love it. Can't imagine paying $150/month for residential, at any speed. $30/$40/month is the "pricepoint" for residential service, whatever the speed.

GottaGo

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Papa Midnight — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:25:10 EDT

@lonnypaul: Shit... considering someone in Japan, Korea and/or China can get 100mbps for $33 roughly and 1GBPS (Korea and Japan) for some more and not have to worry about blocked ports or services (save China, of course) or shaping.... What's more tempting... Hmm.... Verizon and Concrap are both overpriced it would seem.

Papa Midnight

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

hansning — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:24:08 EDT

i'm using 10mbs right now, and it's fine. cept for the times when there are 10 - 20 people using it. in which case i'd definately pay the $150 and split the bill.

hansning

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Papa Midnight — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:22:44 EDT

@icelight: Comcast claims it delivers data over it's "State of the art fiber optic network". Just watch one of their commercials.

Papa Midnight

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

lonnypaul — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:08:16 EDT

I'd pay in a second - I just wish that rollout of these high-speed services would happen in Florida faster. NAP of the Americas and no super-high-speed anything here. Sure, Bellsouth/AT&T have been 'testing' their 24Mbps service for years, but not yet.... ;(

Down with franchises - up with competition.

lonnypaul

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

ManoloDF — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:03:40 EDT

@icelight: I do believe it is because the fiber is burning in the image, hense sending the message that it is Burning Fiber as competition?

ManoloDF

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

akmarksman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:18 EDT

forget the speed they are advertising as download..whether or not it'll blow you..
what about the upload speeds?..when can we have uploads of 30Mbps?..
forget having 25,500Mbps download speed..it won't matter a shit when the guy your playing against in COD4 has 2Mbp upload..

How about 10/10 or 20/20 for gamers on XBOX LIVE and (laughs) PSN....and for other users(bittorrenting)..have something like 30/5..

akmarksman

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

IANBlock — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:47:52 EDT

@legayce: nice speeds. I read an article a year ago (shoulda saved it) about someone in sweden who was able to download entire movies in 30 seconds. Anyone knw what I am talking about?

IANBlock

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

legacye — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:40:36 EDT

I would totally agree with one of the posters that said 5-10mbps is more than enough speed (for now). Many of us have had access to 10mbps corporate LANs before either through work or University, but really, how much difference has that made?.

The quickest speeds I've ever experienced were 4,000 kbps downstream and that meant getting an entire movie in about 59 seconds.

As servers cannot generally deliver 50mbps to a single connection, I can't see the need for this just yet.

legacye

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

norfizzle — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:38:07 EDT

I'd prob pay for it just to have such speed! Why do all these things always get rolled out in such random places though? SHOW SF THE LOVE!

norfizzle

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

hmooby — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:13:11 EDT

ooh...ooh...I'm from STP.MN....but then I hate comcast... All those stupid commercial (lay people think they're funny) drive me nuts....maybe this will drive their cost down though I doubt it...Comcast is evil....there...I said it....maybe once the ps3 is wide open or HD multimedia comes full circle, this will be worth it...150...that's all the bills I paid monthly...Internet...Cellphone...Car Insurance...House Phone...

hmooby

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

johnnyabnormal — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:10:19 EDT

St. Paul, Minnesota? TFSU.

johnnyabnormal

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

vagrant — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:05:58 EDT

I doubt that price point is for "Joe Consumer". $150/month is cheap for that kind of bandwidth in the business world. I'd use it as a backup connection as well as letting the kids in the office go wild with their audio and video streams. Many businesses rely on their Internet connection, to not have redundancy in place through different peers is foolish.

vagrant

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Tsiroch — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:03:41 EDT

@Mandatory_Field: Dude, that was a pretty nifty comment. Very good, very good.

Tsiroch

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

PiNPOiNT — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:03:13 EDT

Your new 50mb pipe will be awesome when they still cut you off at your 200gig "invisible" limit they have on downloads, providing you NO opportunity to get back on.

PiNPOiNT

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

aec007 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:55:03 EDT

This just in:
The internet is as fast as it's weakest link!

So having a DOCSIS 3.0 compliant fiber will not help to videoconference with your grampa's dial-up AOL phone line.

Sorry to burst your bubble boys and gals...

aec007

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Rususeruru — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:44:25 EDT

I vote no. Not that I have the option for I'm already paying $50/mo for 1.5-3mbps cable, the only other option here is DSL and the phone lines around here are crap. But I can't see a single reason to pay that much for internet service.

Rususeruru

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

frigg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:42:16 EDT

@daftrok: "But will it blow me? NO? Then unless it goes down to 50 bucks a month I say FUCK IT."

Sorry daftrok, it won't do that either.

frigg

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

daftrok — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:30:28 EDT

But will it blow me? NO? Then unless it goes down to 50 bucks a month I say FUCK IT.

daftrok

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

megapopular — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:28:07 EDT

Gizmodo, get your act together... Fios gives you 50/20 ... not 50/5 like Comcast. That is a huge deal when you want to upload files... And it's way cheaper and constant. AND it's extremely close to being 50 down and 20 up! Yes, VZ's fine print also says "up to", but their numbers hold much truer than Comcast can thanks to the dedicated nature of FTTP.

megapopular

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Y2KGTP — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:20:09 EDT

150 yen perhaps?

Y2KGTP

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

aznplayer213 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:14:23 EDT

hell yeah more ddling of 30gb hd porn!!!!yeah!!!!

aznplayer213

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

matto — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:06:59 EDT

@vastrightwing: Just as important as the raw bitrate of your 'pipe' are several other factors- including where that connection terminates, who else is aggregated into that pop, its upstream link utilization and queue depth, and partially based on this queue depth, the average bandwidth/delay product of your TCP connections. Since TCP uses a sliding window, if your aggregate connection latency is large, or your transfers are short, you will never see the connection scale up to close to line rate.

matto

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

vastrightwing — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:47:32 EDT

50Mbps? Heck, I have a 20Mbps pipe and I can't ever get data sent to me that fast. It's not the pipe's fault, the fault is the rest of the pipes and servers aren't going to keep up. My advice is to pay for what you can actually use: 5 - 10Mbps. That's about all you're going to actually get for now. Besides, isn't Comcast the company that throttles your connection back anyway? They'll have 50 pages of disclaimers telling you not to expect speeds of any sort because they won't be able to get them or they will simply block you.

vastrightwing

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

rainfever — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:46:19 EDT

Okay, first of all, the nerd in me is gasming all over the place...

However, whats the point?
It seems that if you use your internet anymore these days everyone accuses you of illegalness and ISP's filter/cap/shit on your internet connection.

So if i were to sign up, would i even be able to caress my new wide pipe? or would comcast be the mom waiting outside your bedroom door at the first sign of your using your new toy.

rainfever

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

shorty6049 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:44:36 EDT

i go to school in st. paul, and live very close, but i have a feeling i'll never get to experience this... WAY to expensive

shorty6049

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Tensor — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:41:10 EDT

@Andrew_Cho: That does it ... what does it take to move to Korea ? Who do I talk to ?

Tensor

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

UltimateIdiot — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:38:43 EDT

woah, 150? no way, once they start offering japan speed broadband for $30-40 then i will join but until then, us broadband is pretty sad.

UltimateIdiot

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Andrew_Cho — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:32:04 EDT

Ha, I love Korea. We've got 100Mbps for about $30 a month

Andrew_Cho

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

SchruteBuck — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:32:01 EDT

Technology hotbed St. Paul, Minnesota gets all the breaks. If they would just give in to those tax incentives, google is ready to relocate there.

SchruteBuck

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Mandatory_Field — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:30:47 EDT

John Mayer here: I pity the fool who doesn't have 160Mbps downstream and an AI girlfriend named Alice... Oh crap, I'm getting my memes confused, aren't I....

Mandatory_Field

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

flynboarder07 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:29:48 EDT

One of the few advantages to living in Minnesota. Bittorrent here I come!

flynboarder07

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

gamecrazychris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:27:11 EDT

If the $150 50Mbps won't "blow me" the 160Mbps better. Think if 1/3 the full speed is $150 than that would mean the 160Mbps would cost around $450 per month! Only worth it for those extremely rich bastards who want to have every advantage they can while playing Halo.

gamecrazychris

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

tobedetermined — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:24:47 EDT

I still don't have VZ high speed Internet, let alone FiOS. So, I am stuck with Comcast.

tobedetermined

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

tehronin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:24:38 EDT

Thats baller status, I want.

tehronin

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

matt buchanan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:22:11 EDT

@icelight: Cause it's fiber-like speeds? And hello, fire. Besides, their backbone is running on fiber, as most cable companies are all too quick to tell you.

matt buchanan

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

skittlzncombos — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:20:57 EDT

@SBM_from_LA: I can see it now. Customers going over their usage limit in one day thanks to the new and improved speeds and a wealth of online streaming and whatnot. Should've read the fine print!

skittlzncombos

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

pjp13 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:20:37 EDT

i'm gonna miss the 30 mb/s download speed once i graduate though..... :[

pjp13

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

pjp13 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:19:45 EDT

wow. i've been using fiber optics on my school campus for 4 years and realized 1 thing. unless i'm getting files from people on campus, everything else downloads at pretty standard speeds since you're limited to other people's bandwidth. considering that i pay $18 for "technology fee" along with 40k for tuition, i dont mind the $150 per month. haha. but yea, regular comcast cable is fine with me whenever i go home.

pjp13

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

SBM_from_LA — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:18:35 EDT

READ THE FINE PRINT... As always, it will say "you will get up too....". Plus, I'm sure there will be some bandwidth throttling for heavy usage.

SBM_from_LA

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Metkis — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:17:42 EDT

@icelight:

Isn't it obvious, Gizmodo is fiber fanboys! Let's shun them for liking something! Gahhhhh!!!

Metkis

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

CarbonatedWater — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:16:40 EDT

Ha. I have normal cable from Comcast and that sucks already. Why would I want to pay more for faster internet if it's something new and will probably suck because it's Comcast? I'd rather go with Verizon since I've heard good things about them from my friends who have the service.

CarbonatedWater

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

VulnoX — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:16:11 EDT

"And no, it won't blow you."
That is awesome, this is part of why I love this site.

This would be great though, I am hoping this kind of thing expands out more and drops in price...

...and is offered by someone besides Comcast.

VulnoX

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

icelight — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:15:38 EDT

Umm, why did you use an image of fiber for an article on cable, its direct competitor?

icelight

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

skittlzncombos — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:15:25 EDT

150 bucks a month? Why? Say you get this for your illegal torrenting needs. Wouldn't that just be dumb? Like you couldn't just spend 50 bucks on internet and 100 bucks on actually buying movies and music. Same difference. I guess, I dunno.

skittlzncombos

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

bdsams — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:11:03 EDT

i love the writing here, seriously you all crack my shit up

"cost a whopping $150 a month. And no, it won't blow you."

bdsams