Mediacom to offer 20Mbps by End Of June - Winter's gossip becomes summer reality

Mediacom to offer 20Mbps by End Of June - Winter's gossip becomes summer reality
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Mediacom to offer 20Mbps by End Of June
Winter's gossip becomes summer reality
(old news - 05:23PM Thursday May 08 2008)
tags: prices · competition · business · bandwidth · cable · Mediacom
Tipped by drslash

According to a post by a Mediacom employee in our forums, the company will begin upgrading their 15Mbps "MAX" tier to 20Mbps downstream, 2Mbps upstream, for free, by the end of June. Rumors of 20Mbps first popped up last December, but the company wouldn't officially comment. They officially announced the tier this morning during the earnings conference call, saying the tier would be in place to 98% of subscribers by 6/30. I'm not sure how to console you two-percenters, other than to remind you that you could be satellite broadband customers (did that help?).

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BabyBear @ 8th May 05:26PM:
Or

said by user karl :

I'm not sure how to console you two-percenters, other than to remind you that you could be satellite broadband customers (did that help?)

Or you could be a future Comcast/TWC subscriber. :p
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Lowtarget @ 8th May 06:21PM:
Re: Or

I'm using roadrunner broadband which is 15Mbps/768k. The overall service been very good to me. Besides the signal levels issue I had which been fixed.
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anon @ 8th May 06:47PM:
How much and where?

How much is Mediacom charging for their 'MAX' tier for 15Mbps right now? (Will this charge increase with 20Mbps / 2 Mbps?)

Where are they rolling out this 'new' service to?

Does any company light up fiber (and offer connections to home users) in California, Florida and/or Washington (State, not DC)?
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BSD24 @ 8th May 07:24PM:
Re: Or

said by BabyBear :

said by user karl :

I'm not sure how to console you two-percenters, other than to remind you that you could be satellite broadband customers (did that help?)

Or you could be a future Comcast/TWC subscriber. :p

I know right on BabyBear. Who wants to be a Comcast customer? They are supposed to have 50/2 by mid to end of 2008 (some regions/divions by 2009) and eventually 50/50 by 2011. That would be soo much worse then having 20/2!

NOT!!!!!!
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BSD24 @ 8th May 07:26PM:
Re: Or

said by BabyBear :

said by user karl :

I'm not sure how to console you two-percenters, other than to remind you that you could be satellite broadband customers (did that help?)

Or you could be a future Comcast/TWC subscriber. :p

Oh and should I mention many Comcast Customers already have 16mbps DOWN 2mbps UP, and have had that for almost a year already. About time Mediacom caught up don't you think!
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BSD24 @ 8th May 07:29PM:
Re: How much and where?

now there is a good point. Cable operators use a Hybrid Fiber-Coax network for all 3 services. I think it might be more suggestive to say to Comcast or other operators to just build off the fiber part of the network all the way to the home. But maybe not, you never know in this ever-changing times.
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drslash @ 8th May 08:59PM:
Re: How much and where?

15/1 is currently $60/month, $75/month without TV service. It has been announced that these rates will not go up. As stated by the above report, 98% of their service areas will be able to get 20/2.
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Xizer @ 8th May 10:07PM:
Re: Or

said by BSD24 :

said by BabyBear :

said by user karl :

I'm not sure how to console you two-percenters, other than to remind you that you could be satellite broadband customers (did that help?)

Or you could be a future Comcast/TWC subscriber. :p

Mmmm yes, I'd love to have Comcast and 50 Mbps. I love seeing my torrents throttled down to dial-up speeds and thanks to such a fast pipe, I'd be able to hit Comcast's bandwidth cap for the month within hours! Whoo!!

For the record (seriously): How dare anyone include TWC with Comcast. I have TWC and they're awesome. Zero throttling and no bandwidth caps on a 15 Mbit line.
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Mortis @ 8th May 11:58PM:
Re: How much and where?

I'd be satisfied if I got my 8 mbps 50% of teh time....20 mbps is a pipe dream. My upload speed is rock solid but download speed is almost always 3 mbps or so, except for late night after midnight...
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n_w95482 @ 9th May 02:55AM:
Nice

Damn, and I just moved from a Mediacom area...

I had the 15 Mbps service and for the most part, it was quite good. Hopefully Comcast will roll out 16/2 here soon (after they resolve the daily bandwidth issues here first :p).
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wildcat man @ 9th May 05:03AM:
how does this compare to competition?

My guess is no Fios, and likely little U-Verse competition as most of their homes passed are in are Qwest/ Iowa. How does this compare to others, and can this be marketed as a competitive advantage? Also, with their relationship to Sprint, could this bandwidth lead to more Femtocell deployments and improve cell coverage in Mediacom areas?
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anon @ 10th May 01:59AM:
Re: How much and where?

Thanks for the info, I am fortunate to live in a part of the country where there are plenty of options, I know many are not that lucky.

The banner at the top of this forum, for me, is from Sonic, "6.0Mbps/768Kbps: $34.95/month, from California's #1 rated ISP on BBR!"

When I speed tested my cable today I got 6026 Kbps up and 484 Kbps down, not terrible, but I would like at least 10 Mbps Up and 10 Mbps down...heck give me the 100 / 100 for $40 per month (see the article below). Of course I am paying less than $35 so that helps some.

And the 'chance' to get 6000 up consistently and even better get closer to 768 down with Sonic is very tempting. After all with DSL being Point to point, and probably having a static IP (nice to have) I would not have my bandwidth sucked out by others. Yes very tempting indeed.

Makes me sick to think that in Japan they can get the following (while 100 Mbps is not all over Japan, Japan still averages 61 Mbps; that has to help them innovate and come up with new uses, ideas, new revenue streams and more. I know I am not alone in wanting it and I don't even use half of what many use (no videos, no gaming, no P2P, from my location the Cable company loves me!)

For the life of me I can't understand why some entrepreneur has not lit up some dark fiber and gone after 40% of the US market like they successfully did in two years in Japan. What would 40% of the US Cable / DSL market be worth anyway? Not to mention that 'cash flow' is King and with fiber, the bandwidth is almost limitless, so no need for arbitrary throttling as many companies want to do to us today. Hmmm the possibilities. I know I would buy their service, heck I would go to work for them and help them grow, what a rush!!!!

Link to article about faster speeds in most of the industrialized world compared to what we have here in the U.S.: »www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co···larticle

(If I ever build a community, I am going to run fiber in two different directions to two different NOCs - i.e. not owned by the same company - and let the community own and run the fiber company for the benefit of the community! Think it would offset 'gas' prices? Probably not, and yes I am a dreamer! Perhaps a few twirly (name?) similar to the QR5 (see link below), but cheaper, around $13,000 to generate power and sell excess energy back to the power company. And 'buried' power lines so we never lose power in a storm, ever. Electric powered vehicles in town (leave the gas ones in a 'garage' each day a little ways away from home and hop in my electric car to/from home. Low and dimmed outdoor lighting, so you can see the stars again. Hmmm.)

»www.quietrevolution.co.uk/qr5.htm ï¿½€“ QR5 is more expensive than the twirly (sic) it retailed for around $13K, but the picture is similar. (search Vertical-Axis wind generation)
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