Balt: Cmcst to raise downstream to 6MB...

Everything you do now, only much faster! Have you ever downloaded an entire CD, say for something like a new release of Linux? Do you ever watch streaming video? Do you play any on-line games? What about running Microsoft Windows Updates? All of these activities would benefit from higher download speeds!

Plus they are trying to position themselves to remain competitive when the Telco's run fiber optic cable to your home, and offer even faster service!

Bill Crocker

Check out the Comcast forums, there is an announcment there.

-Gary

At this point, increased downstream is not really a benefit. Increased upstream so we can all run servers will be the real newsworthy item (so we can get good upstream on our servers lol).

I saw people talking about it in alt.online-service.comcast. Also check out

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Your speed is 150.13 times faster than 56Kb dialup

I pay for Gold for the upstream because I have 2 phone lines with Vonage.

You will have to you power everything down and waited a minute before turning everything back on.

Here is the rollout schedule ....

Upstream uses a smaller available bandwidth, (5-54MHz). It has to share this with cable box communications and others things, too. Downstream has a much larger bandwidth to work with (65-850MHz)

That won't happen until they deploy DOCSIS 2, which generally requires replacing most of the head-end equipment in addition to the modems of the users to be upgraded. That costs a lot of money, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. :-)

-Larry Jones

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