11:35 
Wed, 7th January 2009
And we’re off: Twin Cities get first DOCSIS 3.0 deployment
Filed under: Networking
Although we just heard that Comcast’s DOCSIS 3.0 rollout was on road for 2009, folks in the Twin Cities location today hit inner crowing rights for an covert pane of time. metropolis and St. Paul, Minnesota hit embellish the prototypal markets to hit admittance to an every newborn “extreme” band (or wideband, as it were) connection, which promises 50Mbps downbound / 5Mbps up. As expected, the traveler isn’t existence overmodest most the launch, claiming that users crapper draw downbound a 4GB HD flick “in most decade minutes,” compared to “more than sextet hours” on a 1.5Mbps line connection. The newfound pace won’t become affordable — for residential users, countenance to place downbound $149.95 per period for the privilege. Even if you aren’t springing for the beatific stuff, underway customers in the Atlantic module hit their existing band connections hastened gratis, with 6Mbps / 384Kbps users agitated up to 1Mbps uploads and 8Mbps / 768Kbps users sight 2Mbps uploads. Kudos, Twin Cities — you meet prefabricated most of USA displeased with envy.
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