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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:35 am Post subject: Comcast Blast +

i'm a little slow. i've been paying WAY too much for bundled services through comcast, so i went to the local office to figure out the scene and downgrade. first, they re-configured my bill and services so i dropped $40 off the monthly price, then suggested i could cease the boost+ (blazing internet) that costs $10 /month.

since then, any difference in speed? no.

so if you have boost+ you might reconsider that extra buck-20 you're paying per annum.
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for the heads up! Was there an advertised difference in up speed?

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:47 am Post subject:

honestly, i don't know (showing my cards here!). i can't remember how the original blast option came up for which i opted in ... and i haven;t done a speed test; i simply go by "feel."

were you in on the thread where vo-bb folks posted their speeds for up/downloads? i was in the money, so am looking forward to doing that again to test it out.
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Bish · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:58 am Post subject:

Diane, if you're service is like my Optimum service, the regular speed is probably something like 10Mbps down and 2 Mbps up. I pay for the "boost" service with Optimum which gives 30Mbps down and 5Mbps up. For most services (including uploading/downloading big files and streaming video) the regular service would be fine. If you were shifting a lot of video around, it may be different. The only thing you may have to be aware of is that the "boost/blast" premium service may be free of bandwidth caps, while the regular may have monthly bandwidth caps involved. It may be worth checking. My service has no caps on either.

Bottom line is that as long as you have good regular service, you probably don't need "boost".
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:29 am Post subject:

thanks, bish!
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Bruce · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:49 am Post subject:

I'm paying Comcast for their "boost" service, thinking I need it to avoid sitting here forever while big files upload, but then again I can always go read something on the Web or do some filing while I wait. Hmmm.

I get a monthly sales call from Comcast offering 50 channels of cable and phone service and "boost" for the same amount I'm paying for "boost" alone. I was tempted until this past weekend's vacation where we had 100+ channels available. Holy crap, what crap! Infomercials on at least 50 of those channels...mostly mindless over-analysis by quasi-experts on the news channels, deadly cloying local news, documentaries that take five minutes of information and stretch it to an hour..... I could go on, but I'm frightening and boring myself at the same time. No cable TV thank you very much.

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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:33 am Post subject:

"deadly cloying local news"

love. this.
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ChrisMezzolesta · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:51 pm Post subject:

Kinda the same here, we got rid of cable TV and went for really fast cable Net and a cheap laptop to watch TV over the web (Hulu, Netflix, various other providers), hooked an HDMI cable up from the laptop to the HDTV. Fat bandwidth now, I can FTP half-hour WAVs in like 3-5 minutes instead of all night, and when I do, others in the house can do other things easily unlike over the DSL. Downstream for me is anywhere from 45-90Mbps and upstream is routinely near 5Mbps. Losing TV for faster Net was for us a no-brainer. YMMV. (btw this is on Charter, again ymmv.)
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject:

The "vast wasteland" is far vaster than anything Newton Minnow could have imagined. And, at the same time, it is also half-vast (as my late father liked to say).
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jsgilbert · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:35 am Post subject:

I "play this game" with ComCast about once or twice a year. They give me a deal and then it gies up without warning. Then I call and they give me another deal. I did actually have them drop my boost and internetspeedtest.com registered about a 40% decrease in download and about 50% decrease in upload speed over the following week or so. I definitely noticed it using my FTP client to upload and download audio and video files.

Signed back up for it and speeds went back to where they were. For the extra 10 bucks a month, I think it's "worth" it. Of course, when you look at all of my communications costs of cell phones, internet, cable, landlines, etc., it seems pretty awful to be shelling out almost $400 a month. (And I don't even have HBO or Showtime)This also seems insane when you look at other countries with faster, better services that would perhaps run $100 a month total.
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