How many of you have heard of Comcast's new PowerBoost system. They are rolling out this year and any current Comcast customer will get it for free. It says it can almost double your speed. Do you think it's really possible. I think so, really they have nothing to gain from the deal. They are giving it away free.
| |
|
Welcome to KnowledgeSutra - Dear Guest 
, Please Register here to get Your own website. - Ask a Question / Express Opinion / Reply
w/o Sign-Up!
| |
0
3 replies to this topic
#2
-
- Kontributors
-
- 234 posts
Super Member
Posted 14 August 2006 - 01:01 PM
Well seeings how that they way a cable modem and it's connection works, yea, I think it ought to be free.
Figure to get those speeds, your lines are fiber up to the pole or hub, and then copper into your house.
So those speeds are already there, it's just if they actually want to give them to you or not.
Right now, your cable modem can support 10-100 mb transfer rate. But they are only giving you a portion of that.
They can push more, but then the cable modems would all have to be changed and the connection to your desktop would still be limited ti twisted pairs in the Ethernet cable which only has a maximum through put of 100 mb.
So then you'd have to go to a fiber card and hope that your CPU and system can handle it.
Figure to get those speeds, your lines are fiber up to the pole or hub, and then copper into your house.
So those speeds are already there, it's just if they actually want to give them to you or not.
Right now, your cable modem can support 10-100 mb transfer rate. But they are only giving you a portion of that.
They can push more, but then the cable modems would all have to be changed and the connection to your desktop would still be limited ti twisted pairs in the Ethernet cable which only has a maximum through put of 100 mb.
So then you'd have to go to a fiber card and hope that your CPU and system can handle it.
#3
-
- Kontributors
-
- 621 posts
Master of All Typos
- Gender:Male
- Location:Earth, Usa, Maine, Waterford,
- Interests:Creating websites.Playing sports. And also chating online.<br />Oh and............. Staying at Trap!
-
Posted 15 August 2006 - 12:05 AM
Hmm I have never heard of it before. 
To bad I just switched to Adelphia. Just about two months ago.
So that offer is out of reach for me.
To bad I just switched to Adelphia. Just about two months ago.So that offer is out of reach for me.
#4
-
- Kontributors
-
- 152 posts
Premium Member
Posted 15 August 2006 - 12:46 AM
I've seen commercials for this where I live (Indiana right outside of Chicago) and I'm not so sure how it works because they haven't explained it at all, but like all things, when they sound too good to be true, they usually are. I'm not concerned with it anyways because I have SBC Yahoo! DSL and I'm pretty fast right now at 3MB.
Reply to this topic
1 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users
