Comcast is now 5.5 megabits

my service always had (since 1999) around 350 to 750 kilo bytes which is half a meg and lets you click and watch movies in real time

political and pron.

hope that helped

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you can shove your megabits you academic shyster.

"Charles Newman" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com...

Not quite. There are 8 bits/byte, plus some overhead. Don't confuse cable modems with the old dial up modems, where your serial port was configured for start & stop bits.

"Charles Newman" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com...

Comcast is starting to bump customers to 6 mb down 384 up. They even have a faster 8 meg 768 down tier that people are starting to see.

Check this link to the Comcast forums to see when your area has been upgraded:

Not entirely accurate. Ive had it for a while now. (In Illinois) along with most people i know.

It's accurate, as far I can tell. Once it's available to _everyone_ in an area, that area will be marked "Available" in the forum thread. Obviously, it will be available to some folks before then, but that doesn't make it inaccurate.

This note from the forum explains further: "Please note that some Comcast markets not listed above may be performing tests for the new speeds prior to being placed on the confirmed list above. These tests are being performed to ensure the equipment is compatible with the upcoming speeds. So you may see some posts in these and other forums from customers who have received the new speeds but are not located in the official upgrade list above. Please keep in mind that these customers may continue to see the higher speeds while others may be dropped back to the current speeds once testing has been completed. Once an area has confirmed that 100% of their market has received the speed upgrade, we will add them to the above list."

The 8 megs must be the business-grade service I have seen advertised at times. I know that Comcast wants to get more businesses connected to their service.

Well, I do know that Comcast is planning business-grade cable internet service, I saw it advertised some time back.

Posted on the comcast 100% pure broadband forum:

Since this question was asked in a previous thread, it may answer a few questions some of you may have regarding the business service tiers so below are the current and new speeds for the current workplace service tiers.

Current Speeds New Speeds Teleworker 5Mbps/512kbps 8Mbps/768kbps Standard: Teleworker 6Mbps/768kbps 8Mbps/768kbps Enhanced: Workplace 5Mbps/512kbps 6Mbps/768kbps Standard: Workplace 7Mbps/768kbps 8Mbps/1Mbps Enhanced:

Please note that there will be some restructuring of the business class tiers so please check with the workplace website

for additional information once the speeds are fully launched nationwide by the end of summer.

No, the 8 Meg service is the new Gold tier for residential users.

The current speeds are 4 Mbps for Standard tier and 6 Mbps for Gold tier. After the upgrade, it's 6 Mbps for Standard tier and 8 Mbps for Gold tier. All of this is Residential.