Comcast Doles Out New Speed Upgrades in Northeast Comcast today announced that it's rolling out another round of speed increases across the company's Northeast Division, which includes 14 northeastern states from Maine through Virginia and the District of Columbia. According to a Comcast announcement, the company's Blast, Perfornance, Performance Pro, and Performance Starter tiers will all be seeing notable improvements with no additional increase in price (yet). Most users should be able to simply reboot their modems to obtain the new speeds.

According to the company, the majority of customers will see speed increases of at least 50 Mbps across most of its speed tiers: • Blast tier download speeds increasing from 200 Mbps to 250 Mbps • Performance Pro tier download speeds increasing from 100 Mbps to 150 Mbps • Performance tier download speeds increasing from 25 Mbps to 60 Mbps • Performance Starter tier download speeds increasing from 10 Mbps to 15 Mbps "With new devices coming online for consumers every day, we’re committed to offering the fastest speeds and the best features and overall experience so our customers can take advantage of the technology available," Comcast said of the upgrades. "We’ve increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years, and continue to invest to deliver a fast, innovative and reliable experience in and out of the home." It's worth noting that Comcast's Northeast division has yet to see the company's ever expanding usage caps and overage fees, in large part thanks to increased competition. Comcast has made it abundantly clear it hopes to cap all users eventually, though increased competition in the region from the likes of (uncapped) Verizon FiOS has so far kept these glorified price increases in check. Comcast's Comcast's full announcement has some additional detail, and there's some ongoing conversation on the increases in our Comcast forum for those interested.







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jastastic

join:2014-04-23

East Palestine, OH 14 recommendations jastastic Member Hey Comcast... Caps suck. Perhaps you should look at the mobile model in regards to throttling? Oh wait, its not about that... its about losing and making up revenue from cord cutting.

ctaranto

join:2011-12-14

MA 5 recommendations ctaranto Member Not for me... Without symmetrical speeds and no caps, Comcast is a non-starter. Upload speeds are very important as I do a lot of remote system connections to my home systems and upload a lot of photos to my hosted photo site.



I'm still at (a now low tier) 75/75 on VZ FiOS, never had an outage in 5 years, and always (ALWAYS) get 81/93 speeds. Though VZ has a soft cap at 10TB, I did exceed it once (10.5TB) and never heard a thing. adammusic

join:2014-05-01

United State 4 recommendations adammusic Member Scranton, PA



Up from 200/10



Getting 300/12 Blast is now 250/10Up from 200/10Getting 300/12 kdex86

join:2016-06-10

Boxborough, MA 2 recommendations kdex86 Member Northeast Speed Upgrades It’s nice to see “Performance” get upped to 60 Mbps. Prior to this boost, the regular standalone rate for Performance was $74.95 for just 25 Mbps. $18 more per month gets you Blast speeds here, which is now 250 Mbps for $92.95 (standalone non-promotional).



But will the upload speeds increase too?