[GRLUG] Comcast doubles bandwidth at same popular prices.

[Bob Kline]

http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2013/03/comcast-doubles-internet-speeds-for-many-of-its-houston-customers/

A friend in the Houston area send me this.
The piece is dated March 21, and now some
of us in the GR area have it already, barely
3 weeks later.

The same person spoke with a Corning rep,
who said Comcast was running fiber groups
in that area, with a combined capacity of
40 Gbps.  Now owning NBC,  Comcast might
be thinking ahead to various video services.
In any case, it is apparently doing upgrades
here and there.

As for commingling, not clear what you mean
by that.  It is the case the Internet services,
including residential, are big money for
Comcast.  Almost pure profit from what I
read.  Much different from the "cable" side,
where program material costs are going up
fast.  And Google, with its $70 a month
fiber offering in Kansas City, and others,
might still be looking for a piece of the action.

   -- Bob






On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 21:33 -0400, Greg Stoike wrote:
> > I've been waiting for this for a while knowing it was coming.  I just
> > did a reset, but nothing different yet. Maybe they are rolling it out
> > in different areas of the city first. If it helps, I'm on the NE side
> > near Leonard and Plainfield.
>
> FYI, there is now Comcast fiber in that neighborhood,  I believe it
> travels along Plainfield and then turns west down Knapp.  There is a
> termination point at my employer's facility on Ann & Monroe;  they ran a
> new leg of fiber to get to there - so anyone near there should be able
> to get fiber connectivity without having to pay much in build-out costs
> [or at least a whole heck of a lot less in build-out costs, it was
> several miles from the previous junction/end-point].  Comcast fiber is
> overheard in that area, and the lines are intermittently labeled [says
> "COMCAST"],  whereas AT&T fiber in that neighborhood is all underground
> [there is AT&T fiber under Ann St].  AT&T fiber services provide OptEMan
> and support EVCs while Comcast fiber can be provisioned as
> point-to-point between two facilities and allows for Layer 2 / VLAN
> tagging.
>
> I don't believe there is much overlap or commingling of Comcast
> residential 'cable' and Comcast fiber services.
>
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