Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum service truck in McKinney, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) It’s no surprise that cable companies charge lower prices for broadband when they face competition from fiber-to-the-home services. But an article yesterday by Stop the Cap provides a good example of how dramatically promotional prices […]
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians mid-season trailer is upon us, and WOW, are there some heavy things still to figure out in the final episodes of this iconic reality TV show! The series is ending forever later this summer, of course — at least on E! and cable TV, that is — and judging by what […]
Enlarge / Picture of a Comcast router/modem gateway from the company’s website. (credit: Comcast) Comcast today offered the latest hint of a future in which its cable customers won’t be limited to 35Mbps upload speeds. Announcing a recent lab test, Comcast said its research team “deliver[ed] upstream and downstream throughputs of greater than 4Gbps” and […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jill Ferry Photography) Cox has been making it extremely difficult or impossible for some customers to stick with their current Internet speeds despite promising that it won’t force users onto plans with slower uploads. As we wrote two weeks ago, Cox informed customers with 300Mbps download and 30Mbps upload speeds […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bosca78) Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps. Mediacom’s fastest Internet plan offers gigabit download speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds with a monthly data cap […]
Pasieka) Comcast’s cable net still has a significant emphasis on download rates, as even its gigabit-download service simply includes 35Mbps uploads. But that might not be the case forever, since now Comcast declared that a”technical landmark” that may provide gigabit-plus download and upload rates over existing cable {} . Notably, Comcast said that it ran”a […]