[LUNA] xfinity (Allen Krell)

[Matthew Bynum]

If you haven't already signed this, I highly recommend doing so:
http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-huntsville-alabama-start-a-city-owned-net-neutral-gigabit-isp-that-provides-a-reliable-and-fast-internet-connection-to-its-citizens-and-businesses
.

This petition was created by a guy named Tyler England, and has made it all
the way to the attention of Huntsville's mayor.  Tyler, as well as several
others, have started a site as well at launchfiber.com (still a smidge
under construction).

AL.com has been covering the initiative to bring fiber to Huntsville, so
there are plenty of things read on their site:
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2014/06/huntsville_utilities_explores.html
.

At the end of the day, companies like AT&T, Comcast, WOW, and Mediacom
don't want to make the investment in faster internet in Huntsville if they
don't have to.  Since there's no real competition with higher speeds, they
are all content to let us wallow in the mire that is mediocre bandwidth.

Thanks,
Matt


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:57 AM, <egkenny at comcast.net> wrote:

> Comcast has been in the process of doubling the speed of some of its tiers
> for a few months now region by region. Some people with Performance 25Mbps
> will be upgraded to Blast! 50Mbps and people with Blast! 50Mbps will to be
> upgraded to Extreme 105Mbps. Note this is only supposed to happen for
> people with certain double and triple play packages.
>
> I have not received anything official from the Huntsville office yet but
> got the free upgrade by calling and asking for it back in April. I have HD
> Preferred Plus XF triple play which comes with Blast! internet so now I am
> getting Extreme 105. I am using the same Comcast Arris TG862G Gateway
> (DOCSIS 3.0) as before so it was just a matter of Comcast sending an update
> to it.
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> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:35:43 -0500
> From: Allen Krell <allen.krell at gmail.com>
> To: Linux Users of North Alabama mailing list <luna at lunagroup.us>
> Subject: [LUNA] xfinity
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> The xfinity sales guy just stopped by my house. He claims they have 115mbs
> download speed. Does this mean they are running fiber to the house?
>
> I haven't bit yet.
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