[LUNA] xfinity (Allen Krell)

[Paul F. Pearson]

There's been quite a bit of discussion of this on /r/HuntsvilleAlabama in reddit.

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Paul F. Pearson
We all laugh in the same language

----- "Matthew Bynum" <mbynum at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> > Message-ID:
> >
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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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