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Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the free-providing-you-pay-more dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting.

As streaming video continues to chip away at cable TV subscriber numbers, Comcast is making some of its Internet speed increases available only to customers that pay for both Internet and video service.

Last week, Comcast announced speed increases for customers in Houston and the Oregon/SW Washington areas. The announcement headlines were "Comcast increases Internet speeds for some video customers."

Customers with 60Mbps Internet download speeds are being upped to 150Mbps; 150Mbps subscribers are going to 250Mbps; and 250Mbps subscribers are getting a raise to 400Mbps or 1Gbps.

Comcast says speed increases will kick in automatically without raising the customers' monthly bills—but only if they subscribe to certain bundles that include both Internet and TV service.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:10AM (5 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:10AM (#674469)

    I think you mean 150 mbps for 40 bucks. That's the going rate for Comcast. Don't feel bad, most people misunderstand megabits and Megabytes. The internet providers count on it to hype their product.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:00AM (4 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:00AM (#674516) Journal
    If you're going to correct someone, it's a good idea to be correct. For reference:
    • Mb: Megabit, 10^6 bits
    • MB: Megabyte, 10^6 bytes
    • MiB: Mebibyte, 2^20 bytes
    • Mib: Mebibit, 2^20 bits
    • mb: Millibit, 10^-3 bits.

    I'm pretty sure that he didn't mean 1.5 bits per second. That's slow even by Comcast standards!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:33AM (#674526)

      If you are going to be pedantic, you need to be correct.

      I'm pretty sure that he didn't mean 1.5 bits per second. That's slow even by Comcast standards!

      150 mbps is 0.15 bits per second.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:34PM (#674641)

      Comcast provides me 30mbps down and 10mbps up for $39 a month.

      Nothing anywhere near the numbers mentioned.

      Not megabytes per second -- 30 megabits, so perhaps 3.6Megabytes per second if nothing is happening between me and the data, the weather is perfect, kids are at school and there is no one in the neighborhood staying home from work.

      Typically I see 3 Megabytes per second at night as a peak rate. Sometimes 3.1 megabytes per second.

      • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday May 03 2018, @12:22PM (1 child)

        by TheRaven (270) on Thursday May 03 2018, @12:22PM (#675015) Journal
        Once again. 30mbps is 30 millibits per second (i.e. 0.3 bits per second, or just over one byte every 26 seconds), not 30 megabits. 30Mbps (or, more usually, 30Mb/s) is 30 megabits per second.
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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:47AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:47AM (#675578)

          And once again you fuck it up.

          30 mbps is 0.03 bits per second. The GP was wrong by a capitalisation of the letter m, and everyone knew what he intended anyway.
          You are wrong by a numeric factor of ten you pedantic dipshit.