Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network “Xfinity 10G” despite cable’s slower speeds.::Comcast renamed its whole network “Xfinity 10G” despite cable’s slower speeds.

  • ChronosWing@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Well technically Coax can do 10Gb/s and being in the industry that is the current goal for most cable companies. Problem is its going to take years of upgrading infrastructure to achieve those speeds. Seems like Comcast just jumped the gun trying to build hype for a product that doesn’t exist yet.

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        1 year ago

        They were smart enough to include verbiage that 10G did not mean 10Gbps on their website. I don’t work for Comcast so I’m not sure of their current infrastructure. The company I do work for (charter) already has some infrastructure in place to facilitate those speeds but it’s not being offered yet. It’s currently a giant project all cable companies are working on that likely will only be available in major metro areas at first.

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          1 year ago

          You have to dig to find that verbiage. Their homepage is plastered with the phrase 10G and no note that it is meaningless.

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      1 year ago

      I wish telecom advertising had the same rules as drug advertising. Would love for every Comcast commercial to end in “Warning: 10 gigabit speeds not available in all areas. 10G plans start at $330 per month after a $1,000 installation fee. May cause erectile disfunction.”

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        1 year ago

        That installation fee was a scam of the highest order. You wanna know why they originally charged for it for 1Gbps customers only? Because at the time the network was not setup enough to handle the bandwidth allocation, so they hoped to scare off most people from wanting it with the $200 install fee. Eventually once the plant was upgraded they dropped the fee.

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      1 year ago

      Coax can do much more, it can also run symmetrically vs the asymmetric, slow af upload channel that makes it feel like garbage that they give us.

      Upgraded to Comcast Business with 200mbps upload for work, finally feels like I have actual broadband, those upload speeds are brutal.

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            1 year ago

            Not milking it at all, it’s just a giant undertaking to upgrade millions of miles of plant.

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              1 year ago

              Both can be true. It’s a massive effort to upgrade the infrastructure. Comcast will squeeze every drop from the existing plant, then hem and haw for a few years while service suffers, before actually committing to the massive effort.