If you are a Comcast broadband customer here in Eastern Massachusetts or in other parts of the eastern half of New England, you might want to unplug your cable modem for a minute or two and then reboot it (along with your computer)…just as soon as you’re done reading this blog, of course.
DSL Reports says that internal sources at Comcast confirm that they’ve completed the DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade for all customers in this area, and that faster broadband speeds are available IMMEDIATELY to all customers, regardless of their service package. Comcast is raising rates next week, and will be rolling out several new tiers of boradband service as well, but everyone in this service area will see an increase of throughput, since even the basic tier will be faster than the standard 2Mbps service that has been around for the last couple of years. Posters in the DSL Reports forums say that their throughput speeds have doubled since yesterday.
The rest of you will have to wait a little longer. Comcast says they won’t have DOCSIS 3.0 fully implemented nationally until 2010.
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Thanks for the heads up, Brian. I did a speedtest before rebooting the modem (1192 kb/s down) and one after (16,080 kb/s down). Holee cow.