22Jul Extreme 50 comes to Philadelphia

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I’m not into fast cars, or planes. Nope, they do annihilation for me. I’ll acquaint you appetite absolutely makes me happy: fast Internet downloads. If that makes me a beatnik (which I’m appealing abiding it does) so be it, the Internet is a big allotment of my activity and I’m not abashed to accept it.

My attraction with accelerated downloads (and uploads for that matter) has translated into a agog absorption in DOCSIS 3.0, which we accept mentioned on Comcast Voices before. DOCSIS 3.0, additionally alleged wideband by those in the know, is the technology that allows us to action actual fast speeds indeed.

At the moment we’ve formed out DOCSIS 3.0 to about 25 actor homes and businesses to date, which agency lots of bodies accept the befalling to assurance up for either Ultra 22 (up to 22 Mbps of downstream/up to 5 Mbps of upstream) or Extreme 50 (up to 50 Mbps of after speed/up to 10 Mbps of upstream speed).

Today we’re announcement some agitative account (especially for me, as I am a citizen of city Philadelphia): we’ve completed the DOCSIS 3.0 barrage for the absolute City of Philadelphia and surrounding area, which includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties as able-bodied as southern New Jersey and arctic Delaware.

If you aren’t a acceleration aberration like me (I plan on advance to Extreme 50 as anon as humanly possible) don’t worry, acknowledgment to the DOCSIS 3.0 cycle out we’ve additionally angled the speeds for the majority of our absolute accelerated Internet barter at no cost.

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