Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

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Cablevision: 101Mbps For $99.95 - 15Mbps upstream, no usage caps... - dslreports.com

Confirming our earlier reports that Cablevision was cooking up a speedier new DOCSIS 3.0 offering, Cablevision tells us this morning that the company will be launching a new "Ultra" tier on May 11. The new tier features speeds of 101Mbps downstream and 15Mbps upstream for $99.95 a month. That's an unprecedented amount of speed at an unprecedented price, suggesting that Cablevision just took the gloves off in their fight against Verizon FiOS.

While we know that Verizon is testing 100Mbps FiOS connectivity in employee homes, no U.S. incumbent is currently offering 100Mbps, whether FTTH or cable. Several cable operators have started offering 50Mbps or 60Mbps connectivity, but pricing for these services usually start around $140 -- after bundled discount. Cablevision's pricing and the lack of a cap highlights how seriously they have to take the FiOS competitive threat. Did we mention we love competition?

Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees. Cablevision recently came out against metered billing, arguing that the practice would only serve to confuse customers. According to Cablevision, broadband is "a pretty powerful drug" that they'd like users to consume more of. This new 101Mbps/15Mbps tier would appear to be the broadband equivalent of a morphine drip.

Cablevision says they're spending $300 million, at least $70 per user, to deliver both DOCSIS 3.0 connectivity and free Wi-Fi to the company's more than three million customers. In addition to the new DOCSIS 3.0 tier, the company tells us they're also boosting the downstream speed of their Wi-Fi service to 3Mbps from 1.5Mbps.
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Fuck i hate being stuck with time warner. I cant even get boost.
 
Right, until a handful of people start torrenting and they get pissed off.

Would be nice to have to get a cheap Dreamhost account and use it as a back up disk drive. That's what I do now, but my upload is only 384k. I FTP a directory a day to the root of my web space. All my music is on there and all pictures from 2009. I've been upload my crap for a couple months in addition to burning it to DVDs.
 
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their base package is like 15/2 I'm not sure my mom/brother need 101/15. I would enjoy it but.... stuck with TWC in manhattan.
 
NoGodForMe said:
Right, until a handful of people start torrenting and they get pissed off.

Would be nice to have to get a cheap Dreamhost account and use it as a back up disk drive. That's what I do now, but my upload is only 384k. I FTP a directory a day to the root of my web space. All my music is on there and all pictures from 2009. I've been upload my crap for a couple months in addition to burning it to DVDs.
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How much stuff could you possibly have to back up? And is it all personal stuff or is it work-related as well?
 
Apparently I'm not using the internet correctly. I've never needed anything over the speed generic comcast offers.
 
i wish one of these fuckin high speed services would hurry up with san jose... we have like the shittiest internet service here, this is silicon valley ffs!
 
Highfive said:
How much stuff could you possibly have to back up? And is it all personal stuff or is it work-related as well?
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All personal. Over 100 gigs of pictures. I've had a digital camera since they came out going back to 1999. In recent years the daughter would shoot AVI videos of her horse and all pictures were at 4mp. We reduce them down to 1mp and VGA creating different folders for each.

On the music, probably 50 gigs. It's my favorite MP3s collected over time and the daughter's pop music she downloads from the torrents.

I have all the stuff on DVD spindles, but they will eventually go bad. So the idea is to have all my data in multiple places. The web host becomes an off site storage place in case a hurricane comes through and destroys the house. I'm doing the same thing Carbonite does, just manually.
 
SonGohan said:
Apparently I'm not using the internet correctly. I've never needed anything over the speed generic comcast offers.
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Are you retarded? You've never once maxed out your connection? Do you download torrents? stream HD shit? Why would you not want to be able to download 10x as fast?
 
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All personal. Over 100 gigs of pictures. I've had a digital camera since they came out going back to 1999. In recent years the daughter would shoot AVI videos of her horse and all pictures were at 4mp. We reduce them down to 1mp and VGA creating different folders for each.

On the music, probably 50 gigs. It's my favorite MP3s collected over time and the daughter's pop music she downloads from the torrents.

I have all the stuff on DVD spindles, but they will eventually go bad. So the idea is to have all my data in multiple places. The web host becomes an off site storage place in case a hurricane comes through and destroys the house. I'm doing the same thing Carbonite does, just manually.
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Good thinking. I would never go through so much trouble living in KY but in Florida that's a different story.
 
I keep my hard drives backed up on a terabyte hard drive in the machine. It was nice to reformat my main hd and still have all my drivers and shit r there

but then again I don't give a shit if it crashes, it's just data on a computer. life moves on.
 
LGBR said:
but then again I don't give a shit if it crashes, it's just data on a computer. life moves on.
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But what about all your pictures and music? You don't care?

I have 10 years of pictures and lately I've been collecting all my favorite artists on MP3s since CDs go bad. I went to convert some of my CDs and they literally had pin holes in them where the light could shine through. Try it, take your favorite CDs, put a shop light behind it, and look. You'll see holes. So I went and downloaded all that stuff during free leech. Now it's all sitting in my Dreamhost web space.
 
that kind of speed is amazing. that's wire speed for standard cat5e. whoever you're downloading from to max (or even come close to maxing) that bandwidth better have some fast ass servers and connections. with FiOS 20/5, i get 2.5 megabytes per second downstream maxed out, and roughly 1.5 megabytes per second upstream maxed out. i've never needed more than that for my daily use, but having 100 Mb/s downstream would be incredibly useful for downloading games from steam and such
 
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