Cablevision now offering fastest cable Internet in the US, by far

Wow! An ISP that actually uses the money they get to maintain and upgrade their equipment, rather than line their pockets while their network sinks into the dark ages! Hopefully this will inspire some competition. The fastest we get here is 3 Mbps, but you have to pay a hefty price for such "fast" speeds, so we are stuck with 1.5 Mbps.

When I look around for internet providers in my area, I'll keep this one in mind.

I can't wait for them to come to florida...my upstream is only 1.5mbps even though I have the best service available with 30mbps downstram.

Had that in Finland for a while. 100megs upstream too. Only costs like 45 euroes. No bandwith caps ftw. None of the Finnish isps have caps.

This sounds great. While other providers have that "the customer needs us" attitude, Cablevision is listening to the outcry and they're responding.

our cable is supposedly 10mbps download but its throttled to about 1mbps during peak hours, leaving the only option dsl with att which is 5mbps.

having 100 mbps would be nice, but its not going to happen for me.

Originally posted by korgoth3:

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our cable is supposedly 10mbps download but its throttled to about 1mbps during peak hours, leaving the only option dsl with att which is 5mbps.

having 100 mbps would be nice, but its not going to happen for me.

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It's funny to see you all get so giddy about nothing. What a waste!!!! None of you will EVER EVER EVER EVER use that bandwidth..............EVER!!!!!!!!

If you are then you are connecting to dozens and dozens and dozens of different websites and/or peers and pirating to an extent that SHOULD land you in jail because of the leeching.

Example: Connect to Microsoft.com, ATI.com and Creative.com; establish 2 connections each (some have that limit) @ 600Kbps = 1.2Mbps per site X 3 sites = 3.6Mbps download rate.

Example #2; Connect to 20 peers via BitTorrent (indicative of rampant piracy) @ MAYBE 300Kbps (as most users throttle their uploads like I do) = 6MMbps download speeds. Go get excited about something else people!

Originally posted by LissenUp:

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It's funny to see you all get so giddy about nothing. What a waste!!!! None of you will EVER EVER EVER EVER use that bandwidth..............EVER!!!!!!!!

If you are then you are connecting to dozens and dozens and dozens of different websites and/or peers and pirating to an extent that SHOULD land you in jail because of the leeching.

Example: Connect to Microsoft.com, ATI.com and Creative.com; establish 2 connections each (some have that limit) @ 600Kbps = 1.2Mbps per site X 3 sites = 3.6Mbps download rate.

Example #2; Connect to 20 peers via BitTorrent (indicative of rampant piracy) @ MAYBE 300Kbps (as most users throttle their uploads like I do) = 6MMbps download speeds. Go get excited about something else people!

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What's your point??

Clarify your point, scenario, situation, what's being downloaded, who doing the downloading, etc., etc., etc.

Max upload is contingent on the bandwidth of the provider. Most companies don't even allow unlimited and those with even mack daddy circuits like a T3 or an OC3 don't push up no 100Megs

Well shoot. Wish I could get that where I stay. Who cares if I ever use all the bandwidth? I want it anyway! 'Cause I'm greedy like that, I want all of it, err'thang! And as the customer it pleases me to see companies actually remembering what customer service is and giving its clients what they want, faster internet for reasonable prices.

The sad part is that we have to congratulate this company for doing what all these companies are supposed to do ANYWAY, improve their services for their customers.

Originally posted by LissenUp:

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What's your point??

Clarify your point, scenario, situation, what's being downloaded, who doing the downloading, etc., etc., etc.

Max upload is contingent on the bandwidth of the provider. Most companies don't even allow unlimited and those with even mack daddy circuits like a T3 or an OC3 don't push up no 100Megs

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sounds like Lissenup is either jealous he doesnt have it and knocking it for personal reasons one has to do with piracy and get over it please it cant be stopped and we all know it, or he doesnt like to see companies start to update their infrastructure since alot of companies are lacking that and adding caps and throttling ppl. If u pay for a service you should get to use the service to its max potential like most isp's state in the contract of 30mbs down or 16 down and so on an so forth what u do is ur own personal business but being a gamer and loving online play i think it would be great figuring theres not to many dedicated servers for xbox/ps3 games so with that a reliable/fast connection would help but how good is cablevisions connection consistency and drop out rates.

Originally posted by b18bek9:

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sounds like Lissenup is either jealous he doesnt have it and knocking it for personal reasons one has to do with piracy and get over it please it cant be stopped and we all know it, or he doesnt like to see companies start to update their infrastructure since alot of companies are lacking that and adding caps and throttling ppl. If u pay for a service you should get to use the service to its max potential like most isp's state in the contract of 30mbs down or 16 down and so on an so forth what u do is ur own personal business but being a gamer and loving online play i think it would be great figuring theres not to many dedicated servers for xbox/ps3 games so with that a reliable/fast connection would help but how good is cablevisions connection consistency and drop out rates.

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I switched to FiOS about a year ago because of endless problems with Cablevision, plus a few things out of their control. Their routers and cable boxes constantly needed replacing, which they made as easy as they could, but it's still a pain in the arse to be driving to Cabelvision hour round trip for something that shouldn't be breaking. Another is my house was on the end of the branch off of the main feed, and the picture quality on the TV would noticeably degrade when more people were watching TV, you could see it when kids were coming home from school and during prime time.

FiOS doesn't offer that speed yet, but I've been much happier with the service so far, haven't had any equipment failure, and the internet always works. The only downside [a major one for me] is that I can't see the Ranger games in HD because Cablevision won't give out the rights, which they boast about in their commercials all the time.

But regardless of me not using their service, or going back to it for at least some time, they are taking a step in the right direction, and hopefully setting a good example in the industry.

The rest of the world has high speed internet, it's about time America catches up!

Originally posted by kubapolak:

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The rest of the world has high speed internet, it's about time America catches up!

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This is good, it would be nice to see this spread in less than 10 years to a nationwide thing but that is probably a bit of a big wish.

Personally I would like to see something in the order of a symmetrical 80Mbps connection.

Also, when translated to MBps (bytes instead of bits) it's ~12.63MBps down and 1.875 up.

I agree with what others have said, it is very exciting to me to see them upgrading their network, especially considering it is only costing them about a month-and-a-half of payments from each customer to upgrade them all to a very high speed connection that is cap-free.

Now if only I can convince my city to lay fiber...

Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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Personally I would like to see something in the order of a symmetrical 80Mbps connection....

Also, when translated to MBps (bytes instead of bits) it's ~12.63MBps down and 1.875 up.

Now if only I can convince my city to lay fiber...

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Originally posted by LissenUp:

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It's funny to see you all get so giddy about nothing. What a waste!!!! None of you will EVER EVER EVER EVER use that bandwidth..............EVER!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by DarkJello:

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Thanks for those numbers, easier to consume that way. I doubt any city will be installing fiberoptic when companies like Verizon are already doing it privately.

I think symmetrical bandwidth has a good chance of showing up in the future as ISP's become better prepared for the two way exchange of information.

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Cool! That is a damn good offer.

Just to share: here is Singapore one of the main 2 ISP has maximum
10Mbps on offer for 48 S$, that would make 100Mbps a price of nominal 321 US$!!!

Hi

Is this fibre optic thats being offered ?

Its already in small towns all around me

I ve had the pleasure of using it for a few months

until I had to move , sob :( new town doesnt have fibre optic

Im not good with numbers , but I can tell you I could do

4+ gigs in 20 minutes , 14+ Gigs , I think in about 2+ hours

How does that compare to this cablevision offer ?

Im just curious , it came with phone and all services for

about 70 dollars a month ( Canadian )

I wish id never moved

Honestly, the only place you can have such fast real life transfers is RS who have internet connectivity in hundreds of GBPS and not MBPS.

Other possibility is to be downloading something and watching HD streaming media simultaneously.

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"In comparison, competitor Verizon offers their FiOS fiber optic service for $140 USD per month with upload and download speeds of only 50Mbps. "

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There is no upfront installation fee [for laying the fiber optic straight to your door] so I think the price is justified. I'm not sure how Cablevision plans to accommodate these speeds with their current infrastructure, or if there will be an additional fee to get hooked up with it in the first place.