Comcast CEO sees 160Mbps internet in 2008
By Darren Murph 
posted November 30th 2007 9:51PM
posted November 30th 2007 9:51PM
Remember that blisteringly fast channel bonding modem Comcast showed off earlier this year? Turns out that the firm's CEO is apparently aiming to roll out internet services that can reach up to 160Mbps down / 120Mbps up sometime in 2008. As in, next year. In a recent interview with Fortune, Brian Roberts stated that service based on DOCSIS 3.0 technology would start "rolling out" sometime in 2008, and casually noted that it should provide "more than enough bandwidth to do multiplayer online gaming." Additionally, Cable Digital News explains that the firm has plans to cover some 20-percent of its footprint with the uber-quick service before 2009, and while we're left to guess what areas will be covered, we'd bet locales fetching FiOS could entertain some competition. Granted, we've still got aways to go before we can go toe-to-toe with a certain Swede, but we'll take any progress we can get.[Via ArsTechnica, image courtesy of AFP / BBC]
Read - Fortune interviews Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
Read - Comcast closes in on 100Mbit/s
Good for downloading dozens of torrents day and night. Unlimited download heaven. Let's bring on the Sandvine, Comcast, to stop those illegal P2P transfers by all those pirating, sinning criminals.
I'd only use those speeds to download bibles and religious movies.
Dial-up should be satisfactory for 99% of the world. Down with broadband. Return to church socials.
With my crappy Internet I can download an MP3 in about 10 minutes.
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With my crappy Internet I can download an MP3 in about 40 minutes.
Comcast is far more superior than DSL where I live... I have Comcast at my place and it's blazing fast -- whenever I go back to my parent's house with their DSL I feel like the Slowskys.
It's Comcastic.
Comcast can't keep my service up at current specs. Why do I need higher specs until they can provide consistent uptime.
So, residential homes are gonna get 100+ Mbps while my stupid college twiddles their thumbs with their 1.5 Mbps T1 lines (all 4 of them) split bewtween 1400 students.
What college is that? university of sudan?
I wish...then they'd have an excuse.
:o
Maybe he can focus on making sure that their 6MBps connections are actually reliable enough such that it doesn't go out for days at a time in most parts of major metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Georgia. There is no purpose in Comcast continuing to increase speeds since they clearly can keep the connections reliable and their support people clearly lack the competence necessary to maintain the lines.
What bothers me the most is that there is no FCC mandate requiring these clowns to keep their lines operational at a very high SLA if they want to have exclusive access to the pipeline. If you can't keep your tech working, let someone else have access to the lines.
I feel for you over there in the U.S. I have a 100/100 Mbps line today, for which I pay $20 per month. Your internet access is overpriced and underdeveloped, I reckon.