Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast said it will drop “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing appeal.::Comcast said it will drop “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing appeal.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    Good, because this blatant false advertising pissed me off. Straight up taking advantage of everyone that isn’t in the tech world by making them think it’s two times faster than 5G.

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      Yeah, it was such a blatant attempt to confuse customers that I’m surprised it took this long to make them stop. I wish their competitors had the balls to get aggressive with it and run commercials that said (all factual by the way) “Xfinity 10G has a $1,000 installation and activation fee, costs $300 a month, and requires you leasing a special modem from them for $20 a month that you can only use at home and nowhere else.”

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        Also, AFAIK it’s wireless, using their shitty cell network. It’s to compete with Verizon’s wireless FiOS which can actually do like 1.5 Gbps (if you’re close to the tower/receiver).

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      For the briefest of moments, I got fucking jazzed that I might be able to get a 10Gbps connection at my home. Those hopes were quickly dashed when I looked it up and discovered that it was nothing more than a marketing term promising some unnamed ‘faster speed’ at some unknown point in the future.