In the Boston area and parts of New Jersey, Comcast is introducing 50 Mbps Internet service. It's $139.90 per month and it's called "Extreme 50." Although it's nice to see really fast Internet arrive, it's puzzling that these customers will still be subject to Comcast's stated 250 GB throughput limit.
These lucky customers will be able to get there much faster now.
Source: Comcast broadens reach of DOCSIS 3.0, 50Mbps connections
Articles on Bright Hub about Comcast's policies and practices:
We're Not Blocking P2P Traffic - How Comcast's Traffic Management Interfered with BitTorrent and Other File-Sharing Protocols - Every
network provider has the right to manage traffic on his own network.
However, did Comcast go too far when they decided to interfere with
traffic that belonged only to a few specific file-sharing protocols?
Here we'll look at the nuts and bolts (and actual hardware) to find out just how Comcast actually did it.
We're Not Blocking P2P Traffic - How Comcast Plans to Become Protocol-Agnostic - Ordered by
the FCC to cease blocking P2P protocols, Comcast has revealed how they
plan to comply in a "protocol-agnostic" manner. This has been a
fascinating look at the inner workings of a large ISP, but can we trust
them to treat heavy Internet users fairly?
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