Comcast Goes Extreme With 105 Mbps Service
Still capped.
Comcast announced today that its newest Xfinity Internet speed tier, Extreme 105, is now available to more than 40 million homes in major markets across the nation including San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and the majority of Boston, among others.
The Extreme 105 Mbps service, which also offers up to 10 Mbps upload speeds, is available for new or existing customers at an introductory rate of $105 per month for 12 months as part of their Triple Play bundle.
Comcast is using DOCSIS 3.0 for its connection speeds of up to 105 Mbps. While loading LOLCATS will be faster than before, the real appreciable differences will be with big downloads.
An example given by Comcast was its new 105 Mbps service able download a 4 GB high-definition movie in 5 minutes, which would take 90 minutes on 6 Mbps cable.
Of course, with that same 250 GB bandwidth cap still there, it just means that you can hit that limit faster than you could before.

In b4 the rest of the world laughs at us again.
One of the reasons for the caps is quite possibly to stem piracy, kinda like how the Feds are using child porn as a reason to rape our rights online, ISP's are using that as another possible reasoning assuming that only those downloading more than that aren't tech junkies but rather evil pirate criminals. It wont last forever. @Home tried the whole connection cap instead and failed back then when Optium Online was the goto cable provider that everyone wished was in their neighborhood.
Comcast + AT&T = my 386 pwns for ROFL action...
Third world countries and the US.
but i have to say, it would be much much nicer to download STEAM games at 10 times the speed... but i could do without the cap, i have more than 250gb worth of games.LAME
I have 3mps download form bell in ontario lol
250GB is the rough equivalent of 73-74 HD movies on netflix. If you have 5 computers on the network and everybody watches one movie every day you would cap after 2 weeks with no additional downloads/streams.
Also, as faster internet becomes available the higher quality content they can stream. This means you go through bandwidth even faster, which is why placing these caps right now is so bad. They keep giving us more speed, but the cap will ultimately hold everybody back.
Who gives a frack? With a 250GB cap... it just means it'll get hit faster. What about if I want to watch some cableTV / HULU / TWCableApp with an iPad or my phone?
What about Xbox / PS3 / netflix streaming and buying of movies? The cap is crap.