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Monday, April 6th, 2015 7:00 AM

Gigabit Pro in Atlanta

Can anybody from comcast give me some details about the Gigabit Pro service being offered in Atlanta soon.

Pricing, availability you know the little details.

 

 

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326 Messages

11 years ago

If it is symmetrical, real gigabit for business that allows for static IPs then that is a fantastic deal. All the residential "gigabit" out there now is merely gigabit ethernet handoff from the modem for downstream speeds only, not upstream, AND you will NEVER see actual gigabit speeds unless your pulling a movie or something off of one of Netflix's servers that's co-located at the Comcast cable head (Netflix pays big bucks for that) I don't give a rat's sass about gigabit to HBO or ESPN or some other content provider who is just going to charge me even more money. Show me gigabit download speeds from cnn.com, craigslist, or ebay. They ain't happening on any of the competition now. Show me a city where I can buy 2 of these gigabit pro links in 2 different offices and NFS mount a server share across a VPN and pull 100MegaBYTE/sec off a RAID-10 array across the VPN. If Comcast can do that with this service then it is an absolute killer deal.

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11 years ago

Comcast finally updated their pricing info for gigabit pro.

 

http://www.xfinity.com/multi-gig-offers

 

$300 a month plus up to $1000 for the install and this is for residential only.

 

 

 

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326 Messages

11 years ago

availability is severely restricted, I see.  If it's residential only what's the point?  I guess they are targeting the wealthy who want it for bragging rights.  Same kind of thing as when they put in 50 boxs in a new basketball arena or charge 100K for a new car.

 

It's interesting the US economy has enough 1%ers to be able to support this.

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305 Messages

11 years ago

This specific service is residential only, but Comcast business has had a fiber based service for a while, though, it's considerably more expensive.