

Metatron2008

Premium Member

join:2008-09-02

united state Metatron2008 Premium Member Where exactly does at&t look good? At least where they have cable or LTE as competitors?

mdpeterman

join:2010-10-10

San Jose, CA mdpeterman Member Re: Where exactly does at&t look good? Time for Time Warner Cable to up their speeds! I'm paying $100/month for 50 down 5 up. Why not for the same price get 150/50!



skeechan

Ai Otsukaholic

Premium Member

join:2012-01-26

AA169|170 skeechan Premium Member Re: Where exactly does at&t look good? That is Cox doing 150/50 not AT&T.



djrobx

Premium Member

join:2000-05-31

Valencia, CA djrobx to mdpeterman

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said by mdpeterman: Time for Time Warner Cable to up their speeds! I'm paying $100/month for 50 down 5 up. Why not for the same price get 150/50!

That's what I was thinking. Then again, at least we don't have to deal with caps yet.



skeechan

Ai Otsukaholic

Premium Member

join:2012-01-26

AA169|170 skeechan Premium Member No caps increase though... When I checked the TOS/AUP for Rhode Island which showed Ultimate as a 100Mb tier (110Mb with boost), the Ultimate cap is still 400GB. In my market, Orange County caps don't appear to be enforced. I blow through my monthly caps routinely and hopefully it will stay that way.



What is Verizon's current price for 150Mb FiOS? If it is more than a hundskie, I wonder if they'll drop the price, or bump their tier in response.



mig288

Premium Member

join:2002-07-13

Cherry Hill, NJ mig288 Premium Member Re: No caps increase though... Hard to beat FIOS prices. I have the triple play with 150/65 and digital voice.

jjeffeory

jjeffeory

join:2002-12-04

Bullhead City, AZ jjeffeory Member Re: No caps increase though...

My Bill

Curent Activity Really, my bill is around $155 for much less in Virginia. What's up with that?

Synbios

join:2002-05-18

Arlington, VA Synbios to mig288

Member to mig288



I would die for those internet speeds. This is what I have:

betam4x

join:2002-10-12

Nashville, TN betam4x to skeechan

Member to skeechan

FIOS Pricing for NY/NJ area:



15/5: $69.99

50/25: $79.99

75/35: $89.99

150/65: $99.99

300/65: $209.99



Of course, if you bundle phone/TV you can get 75/35, every tv channel under the sun, cinemax, hbo, showtime all for $144.99/mo



odog

Minister of internet doohickies

Premium Member

join:2001-08-05

Atlanta, GA odog Premium Member Ultimate is 150/20 the ultimate package is 150/20, then add powerboost.



djrobx

Premium Member

join:2000-05-31

Valencia, CA djrobx Premium Member Re: Ultimate is 150/20 I was gonna say, 50 up seems too high for DOCSIS 3.

iansltx

join:2007-02-19

Austin, TX iansltx to odog

Member to odog

...and I'm back to wishing I lived in a Cox area. Or, you know, a FiOS or LUSFiber area, but without actually having to move.

kd6cae

P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime

join:2001-08-27

Pittsfield, MA kd6cae Member Re: Ultimate is 150/20 I'd take 50/10 myself. When I heard that a friend of mine in Phoenix, was upgrading to 150/20, I didn't believe him. Sure enough he has it, just wow. I'd love to wake up one day and see a 30/10 or 50/10 option on TWC. Nice to see what the technology can do.



n2jtx

join:2001-01-13

Glen Head, NY n2jtx Member Preferred Wow, I remember the days when Optimum Online was the gold standard of Internet service. I am now paying $54.95 a month for 15/2 service (well the download is basically 20 but not advertised as such) and Cox is now offering 25/5 for $56?!?! At least we do not have usage caps (yet) and the Optimum WiFi service has good penetration.



It would be nice if OOL at least tried to keep their leadership position.

ezuniga

join:2013-01-30 ezuniga Member Re: Preferred Ultimate is $109.99 in Vegas.



SteveLV702

Premium Member

join:2004-04-22

Las Vegas, NV SteveLV702 Premium Member Re: Preferred



$80 for first 6 months though... looks like they updated the speeds here though as cox.com shows up to 150Mbps doesnt say anything about upload speed though though just did a speed test and am up to 120MB down and 20Mb Up little less then 150/50 though

Centerton

join:2009-06-13

Bentonville, AR Centerton Member Arkansas No upgrades in Arkansas yet. Hope they have some for us too!



Yucca Servic

join:2012-11-27

Rio Rancho, NM Yucca Servic Member Breaking point I wonder where the breaking point of all the access to bandwidth is?



With all the increases and very little transport upgrades between cities and towns built.



I know all the costs to access fiber optics are going down but somewhere somehow

there has to be a realization more cross country lines will be needed.



The consumer will eventually have to pay more to have the bandwidth so operators

can bury new fiber.



Internet service providers cannot keep giving away low cost access for ever.



tallguy11

join:2002-02-08

Lamont, AB ARRIS TG3482

(Software) pfSense

tallguy11 Member Re: Breaking point they can and will keep providing access at a reasonable cost.. the average customer isn't gonna spend more that 150 on cable/internet combined.. and for the bandwidth issue they dont have to bury new fiber just gotta upgrade the equipment on each end of it.. that's the great part about fiber u dont have to replace it.

jjeffeory

jjeffeory

join:2002-12-04

Bullhead City, AZ jjeffeory to Yucca Servic

Member to Yucca Servic

Huh? Low cost?



You realize that there is a TON of unused fiber in the ground that was put there over a decade by companies such as WilTel ( who now do not exist but their assets were sold to others). There's no need for more cross country lines, there's a need for much more last mile fiber lines.

davidhoffman

Premium Member

join:2009-11-19

Warner Robins, GA davidhoffman to Yucca Servic

Premium Member to Yucca Servic

There are research projects underway that may allow up to 99 more colors of laser light to be used in fiber optic systems. You could increase mainline data transport by 100 times today's capabilities. You have to build bigger laser facilities, but the bulk of the fiber strands already in place could handle the increased load. Very little digging may be required to do this, if it gets out of the R&D phase.

34764170 (banned)

join:2007-09-06

Etobicoke, ON 34764170 (banned) to Yucca Servic

Member to Yucca Servic

said by Yucca Servic: With all the increases and very little transport upgrades between cities and towns built.

Huh? with a lot of providers already using DWDM and also upgrading to 100Gb Ethernet there isn't exactly a shortage of capacity with the existing fiber they're already using.

Needleinthha

join:2009-11-30

Chandler, AZ Needleinthha Member Google fiber the reason? Huge speed upgrades, 3X downstream, 10X upstream for ultimate...in phoenix the only competition is Qwest which is crappy DSL and nowhere near these speeds. I think it really shows the influence of google fiber. Just like when email accounts has 10 megs of storage then gmail came along with 1 gig of storage everyone else had to match. Even though google fiber isn't a direct competitor most markets, I think it has somehow made other providers 15mb (or whatever) download speeds some puny compared with 1gbps google offers and feel they have to catch up, at least a little. I don't see why else this could be. It's not like QWEST is providing any incentive



Yucca Servic

join:2012-11-27

Rio Rancho, NM Yucca Servic Member Re: Google fiber the reason? I thought Qwest went and now operated by CenturyLink. CenturyLink will eventually sell out or close due to massive Plain Ol Telephone service losses.

betam4x

join:2002-10-12

Nashville, TN betam4x Member Re: Google fiber the reason? Actually, CenturyLink is upgrading. At least here in NJ. They are rolling out Bonded DSL. 25 megs down, 2 megs up. While that's not 150/20, it's certainly much faster than 3-10 megs down, less than a meg up.

ezuniga

join:2013-01-30 ezuniga to Needleinthha

Member to Needleinthha

Cable companies have had the capability for a while to give much higher speeds with Docsis 3.0. Whatever motivates them to raise speeds is ok with me.



zr

@cox.net zr Anon Cox sucks in Louisiana Horrible customer service reps, rude and incompetent field techs, shoddy service, no competition, the list goes on. How many years will go by before NOLA sees these speeds?



lino

@cox.net lino Anon Re: Cox sucks in Louisiana Already seeing these speeds in New Orleans (French Quarter and Lakeview)



Both accounts have preferred and are seeing ~27/~5.8 on speedtest.net



This is great, but I would still rather an LUS type situation down here (in my dreams).



Bill Neilson

Premium Member

join:2009-07-08

Alexandria, VA Bill Neilson to zr

Premium Member to zr

I am with you. I have UVerse and am happy but seeing people with 50+ makes me jealous.



With Cox and UVerse at the helm here, I doubt we see much upgrades in the future

majortom1029

join:2006-10-19

Medford, NY majortom1029 Member wow Tom ruteledge is wasting no time. Seems like he is slowly making cox like cablevision.

m8trix

join:2003-12-24

Chandler, AZ m8trix Member Re: wow think you mean charter not cox



Mr. Thomas M. Rutledge, Tom, has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Charter Communications Inc. since February 13, 2012. Mr. Rutledge served as the Chief Operating Officer of Cablevision Systems Corp., at AMC Networks Inc. from April 26, 2004 to December 2011

funny0

join:2010-12-22 funny0 Member 6 strikes cant wait for all this speed to be never used and cause these isps massive layoffs.



djrobx

Premium Member

join:2000-05-31

Valencia, CA djrobx Premium Member Re: 6 strikes said by funny0: cant wait for all this speed to be never used and cause these isps massive layoffs.





Now that it's deployed, there's no good reason for them to not use it to its potential. It doesn't cost them a lot more to open it up, and it might entice some people to pay more for the higher tiers.



At least Cox's pricing makes sense. TWC wants a LOT more for 50/5 vs. 30/5. Thing is the cable companies needed to roll out DOCSIS 3 in order to be competitive with even U-verse's 24mbps speeds.Now that it's deployed, there's no good reason for them to not use it to its potential. It doesn't cost them a lot more to open it up, and it might entice some people to pay more for the higher tiers.At least Cox's pricing makes sense. TWC wants a LOT more for 50/5 vs. 30/5.

silbaco

Premium Member

join:2009-08-03

USA silbaco to funny0

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You going to cancel your internet completely because you can't torrent? I doubt it.

sparks

join:2001-07-08

Little Rock, AR sparks Member AT&T will do what they always do AT&T will have no choice but to bribe more politicians and raise rates.

That will even the playing field.



After reading about the 25/2 bonded that some dsl people were talking about they can't even get that with uwish

yyzlhr

join:2012-09-03

Scarborough, ON yyzlhr Member 50 up?!? Wow 50 up on DOCSIS?? I don't think any other Cable operator in North America offers that kind of upstream. Wonder if cox will be able to consistently deliver on those speeds.

34764170 (banned)

join:2007-09-06

Etobicoke, ON 34764170 (banned) Member Re: 50 up?!? It's only 20. But Comcast/Cox are still doing better than Rogers/Shaw are.



Gest

@optonline.net Gest to yyzlhr

Anon to yyzlhr

50 up is probly using there fiber to business. I remember reading that was there top tierd cable sevice even though its fiber.

tmc8080

join:2004-04-24

Brooklyn, NY tmc8080 Member WTH!! Verizon raises rates for the 50mbit tier and ALL the cable companies seem to be falling in lock-step with price hikes too!! DAMN IT!!



chip89

Premium Member

join:2012-07-05

Columbia Station, OH chip89 Premium Member Speeds My speeds have been uped to 24 Mbps.



jtl999

join:2012-11-24

Vancouver BC jtl999 Member Cox Don't forgot the DPI so they can injection stuff into their pages. Good thing I live in western Canada.



KrK

Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy

Premium Member

join:2000-01-17

Tulsa, OK KrK Premium Member Nothing in Oklahoma. Just checked Cox's site. Will keep an eye on it.

davidhoffman

Premium Member

join:2009-11-19

Warner Robins, GA 1 edit davidhoffman Premium Member Cox's Speed increases during Feb 2013 in GA I went to Cox's website for Warner Robins, GA.



The Ultimate selection has no up to speed listed.



There are listings for:

Starter......(1Mbps D/384Kbps U)

Essential...(3mbps D/768Kbps U)

Preferred...(18Mbps D/2Mbps U & 22.5Mbps DPB/2.5Mbps UPB)

Premier.....(36Mbps D/5Mbps U & 45Mbps DPB/6Mbps UPB)



The Ultimate selection has no up to speed listed.



linicx

Caveat Emptor

Premium Member

join:2002-12-03

United State linicx Premium Member You are lucky Where I live offers 10/.500 to 10/4 with digital phone for $70 to $150 depending upon whether one chooses for phone or cable. Neither is very good.



FallenAnjel

join:2011-04-07

East Cupcake FallenAnjel Member Optimum Hauppague NY I pay $70 for Boost Plus, $55 for basic and $15 for Boost Plus which brings my speed up to 50/8. I get 60 straight out of the modem and about 40-50 on my laptop with the router in the next room (WNDR3400)



ikyuaoki

join:2011-04-12

Wichita, KS ikyuaoki Member premiere looks like i am getting another boost speeds to 50/10 over dual cable modems that's good. that would cost me is 136 dollars per month.



then, if they don't raise the cap for increase the speed, I still getting around 500GB/cap a month over dual premier tiers that would not be issue for me.