RCN Launching 330 Mbps Service in NYC Not to be outdone by Time Warner Cable's recent "Maxx" upgrades, New York-area overbuilder RCN today announced they're going to soon start offering a 330 Mbps tier of their own. According to the company announcement , the 330 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up tier will be made available to the company's entire New York City footprint starting in December. According to RCN, the service will run new customers $65 per month, with no long-term contracts and a three-year price assurance. "With our new 330Mbps service running across our fiber-rich network, RCN customers will enjoy seamless and smooth Internet connectivity, which is essential for streaming, uploading and downloading without interruptions,” proclaims the company.







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topics flat nest tmc8080

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Brooklyn, NY 1 recommendation tmc8080 Member branded service.. call it copycat... why bother offering it now? it'd be better to wait and offer gigabit later.. it's not as if they have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend to upgrade their ENTIRE network to docsis 3.1.



what they SHOULD do is push to expand their footprint in NYC, especially where Verizon is dropping the ball.. and I don't care if it encroaches on TWC or Cablevision's footprint either-- all the better!!! davidhoffman

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Warner Robins, GA davidhoffman Premium Member Re: branded service.. Why bother offering now? Because it probably will not cost them much to do so. 16 downstream channel bonding modems and gateways are now available at lower prices. The other hardware needed to do this has probably also decreased in price. DOCSIS 3.1 will be a much larger expense per subscriber than this is. Many cable companies will delay D3.1 to allow other companies with large technical R&D budgets to do the first deployments and work the inevitable bugs out.

dodgetech2

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Gouldsboro, PA dodgetech2 Member LOL yeah sure, 330 down and 20 up...and the true speed is probably more like 125 down and 5 up.... jades

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New York, NY jades Member Re: LOL Haha yes agreed. I've seen RCN speed issues worse than TWC

Edrick

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San Diego, CA Edrick Premium Member Joke Cable is always a joke with upload speeds. I'd rather have something symmetrical like 75/75 than 330 / 20 davidhoffman

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Warner Robins, GA davidhoffman Premium Member Re: Joke It looks like even DOCSIS 3.1 will have a 10:1 download to upload ratio of up to 10 Gbps:1 Gbps. I would expect to see something along like 750/75 services. tmc8080

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Brooklyn, NY tmc8080 Member Re: Joke That's just the way they implement it.. docsis 3.1 can really have a 4:1 ratio-- not 10:1 as cable companies offer. So, that makes 1.x gigabit down... and ~ 240mbits upstream. On the other hand, a mid tier such as 500/120 would be totally fine at half the price (say $50 instead of $70 - $120 for gigabit). davidhoffman

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Warner Robins, GA davidhoffman Premium Member Re: Joke Darn Wikipedia. I used it to get the down to up ratio of 10:1 for D3.1. Thanks for the information. For marketing purposes the cable companies would probably do a 5:1 ratio. 1000:200, 750:150, 500:100, 250:50, and 125:25, or something like that. The 20% extra capability on upload would be a cushion for the busy upload times of the day. Underpromise and overdeliver. mikeluscher159

join:2011-09-04 mikeluscher159 Member hmm ....what is there "NYC footprint"?

...Staten Island? Prospect Park? Lower east side?

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@50.182.138.x RCNFootprint Anon Nice deal - but how many can get it? So, what is RCN's entire NYC footprint? 50 sq miles or 50 selected blocks? Maggs

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Jackson Heights, NY Maggs Premium Member Re: Nice deal - but how many can get it? www.rcn.com/about-rcn/wh ··· new-york patcat88

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Jamaica, NY patcat88 to RCNFootprint

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Northwest Queens general roll out (north of LIE, west of GCP) and small amounts of random MDU anywhere in NYC (must be a MDU, and landlord signed a contract). You are more likely to know RCN from your building have an exclusive contract with RCN instead of being about to get it as a 1-3 family house. Maggs

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Jackson Heights, NY Maggs Premium Member RCN come here I have Time Warner Business Class in my coop in Jackson Heights. We get a 38% discount on TV and Internet, but the internet upload speed is slow. Time Warner saturates their network with users. shmerl

join:2013-10-21 shmerl Member Sounds good But it's not available in the vast majority of NYC. May be it will prompt Verizon and Optimum to offer something comparable for that price. More competition is welcome.

thender

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Brooklyn, NY thender Premium Member I'm tired of timewarner. $175/mo for business class cable, I pay for 30/5, I get half of that, and I get downtime all the time which forces me to put a cash only sign on the store door at random times of the week(in spite of paying $175 for business class connection).



I welcome any competition. It cannot get worse than timewarner cable. I am sick of timewarner cable. Bytezboy

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New York, NY Bytezboy Member Re: I'm tired of timewarner. said by thender: $175/mo for business class cable, I pay for 30/5, I get half of that, and I get downtime all the time which forces me to put a cash only sign on the store door at random times of the week(in spite of paying $175 for business class connection).



I welcome any competition. It cannot get worse than timewarner cable. I am sick of timewarner cable. You're better off using a cellular provider to process transactions.

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that's not capped nor crippled. Why shouldn't the same or equivalent service cost the same in the same city? I am going to talk to Bill about this. For all the so-called "competition" here in the city there is a huge disparity in what it costs us. You pay $175.00/Mo for 30/5 business class service while a short distance to your north I pay 89.99/Mo for business 101/35that's not capped nor crippled. Why shouldn't the same or equivalent service cost the same in the same city? I am going to talk to Bill about this.

ummsorry

@5.39.8.x ummsorry Anon Re: I'm tired of timewarner. this is great news for those that have rcn as an option. competition is great for all!



now TamaraB sorry that you dont like yer pricing but looks like you're getting 30/5 for $175 thru TWC and 101/35 for $89 thru Cablevision. These are 2 different companies, do you expect price fixing between 2 non competing companies? They will charge whatever the market will bear. You must have lived in NYC very long where the price of a meal in the Bronx costs 1/10th of the same in Midtown Manhattan. The mayor Bill has more important things on his plate than the difference of price you pay for business class internet.

thender

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Brooklyn, NY thender Premium Member Makes me sick. The way this works with timewarner, if they know your only other option is Verizon DSL they treat you like trash. People across the street have FIOS.Makes me sick.

nycwide

@74.71.42.x nycwide Anon verizon sucks in nyc i have 300/20 with twc for $54. how on earth is verizon offering 25/25 for $59?



greedy pigs. i welcome the competition because verizon has just gotten more expensive over the years....

djrobx

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Valencia, CA djrobx Premium Member Re: verizon sucks in nyc i have 300/20 with twc for $54. how on earth is verizon offering 25/25 for $59? Your TWC price is promotional. It's closer to $110/month when your promo expires.

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sandman9r Premium Member Overkill I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with most cable companies and say that the average user is fine with good ol' fashioned 10mbps. That was the original Optimum Online speed in 2003 and here we are in 2014 and I'm surfing happily with their basic tier at 18mbps. your comment..

