Monday, October 17th 2022

Comcast Boosting Speeds for more than 20 Million Xfinity Internet Customers Across the Country

More than 20 million Xfinity households across the country will soon be waking up to faster Internet, thanks to Xfinity. The country's largest gigabit network is boosting speeds on its most popular plans beginning this week, providing customers with an even better connectivity experience as they stream the latest 4K blockbuster, game online, videoconference, and more, all at the same time. With this latest round of speed increases, Xfinity continues to provide unparalleled value compared to other providers - including significantly faster speeds and better reliability than mobile and 5G Home Internet.

The announcement comes on the heels of Comcast's launch of the nation's largest- and fastest-ever multi-gig deployment that will reach more than 50 million homes and businesses with 2 Gbps speeds before the end of 2025. "The number of devices connected in Xfinity households has skyrocketed 12X since 2018, and the need for fast, reliable, and secure Internet will continue to grow," said Bill Connors, President of Xfinity, Comcast Cable. "That's why today, Xfinity is increasing speeds for most of our customers across the country."
Faster Speeds Rolling Out Nationwide
Beginning this week, new and existing customers will be able to take advantage of the following upgraded speeds:
  • Performance Starter/Connect from 50 Mbps to 75 Mbps
  • Performance/Connect More from 100 Mbps to 200 Mbps
  • Performance Pro/Fast from 300 Mbps to 400 Mbps
  • Blast/Superfast from 600 Mbps to 800 Mbps
  • Extreme Pro/Gigabit (formerly Ultrafast) from 900 Mbps to 1 Gbps
Benefits Beyond Speed - Reliability and Security
The benefits of Xfinity go beyond faster speeds. Xfinity's comprehensive connectivity experience combines a powerful network built to deliver Internet in the home, reliably and securely, with cutting-edge hardware and software.
  • Reliable - Next-generation Xfinity gateways deliver the most advanced WiFi technology, WiFi 6E, with 3x more bandwidth to power hundreds of devices, gigabit speeds over WiFi, and ultra-low latency for those moments when response times matter most like playing video games or using virtual reality. xFi Pods extend that coverage to hard-to-reach areas of the home, when needed.
  • Secure - xFi Advanced Security - included free for customers who lease an Xfinity gateway - protects connected devices from malware and other threats at the gateway before they reach devices and the household members who are using them. Xfinity has stopped billions of cyber security threats since introducing the service a few years ago.
A Network Built for the Future
Comcast's Xfinity Internet service is delivered using Comcast's existing network architecture and the connections that are already in most customers' homes - no digging up yards required. Faster speeds will be just one of the consumer benefits made possible through Comcast's continued efforts to evolve its entire network to 10G.

10G is a next-generation technology platform supported by a global collaboration of companies in the Internet industry focused on building networks that stay ahead of consumer demand for connectivity. Recently, Comcast successfully tested the final component needed to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds - powered by 10G and DOCSIS 4.0 technology - throughout its entire network. In addition to fast speeds, 10G efforts will provide even greater network reliability, lower latency, faster troubleshooting, and increased energy efficiency.
Source: Comcast
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34 Comments on Comcast Boosting Speeds for more than 20 Million Xfinity Internet Customers Across the Country

#26
hsew
cvaldesNothing new here. USA residential broadband has trailed many countries for well over a decade. My guess is that half of Europe has faster average residential broadband than the USA. The top countries have traditionally been in southeast Asia (Korea, Japan, maybe Singapore) and some of the Scandinavian countries.

Residential broadband infrastructure is often subsidized by those governments as it is considered a necessity like a utility. The US federal government's opinion is far less proactive in ensuring high speed Internet access nationwide geographically and at all economic levels.

So it shows in average speeds and pricing.

And the common argument "well 'merikuh is much bigger than those places" isn't a good explanation. Sweden has a very similar population density to the USA. Their rural areas have similar densities to US rural areas and their metropolitan areas have similar densities to US metropolitan areas.
Are you seriously suggesting that America being literally 20 times the size of Sweden has NOTHING to do with infrastructure costs?
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#27
R-T-B
MakaveliHow do you do 1200 MBps on a 1000 Mbps port?
They use a 2.5gbps port.
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#28
cvaldes
hsewAre you seriously suggesting that America being literally 20 times the size of Sweden has NOTHING to do with infrastructure costs?
No, I’m just saying that it’s not an excuse that can be casually tossed out there.

I bet someday average broadband Internet speeds in China will surpass those of the USA. Not tomorrow, not next month, but not in the too distant future.

Remember that I framed my comments referencing population density which is a metric that takes population and area differences into account. So even if the USA is 20x larger in area, it also has about 20x the population. That’s why I picked Sweden as a specific example.

If you look at inhabitants per area (square kilometer or square mile), the two countries are actually comparable, both in rural areas as well as metropolitan ones.

Countries like South Korea, Japan, and Singapore have much different population densities.

In the same manner, if you compared cumulative total COVID-19 deaths, it's easy to dismiss the USA's higher numbers compared to Japan (which has about 38% the population as the USA) and say, "well America has more COVID deaths because we have more people." However if you pick a metric like cumulative deaths per 100K people, you'll see that USA is 320 versus Japan's 37 -- an 8.6x difference.

Anyhow, a lot of other countries these days have faster wired broadband Internet service than the USA. Some have the advantage of higher population densities. Others do not.

And that's just residential wired broadband. The USA lags even worse concerning publicly accessible free wifi networks.
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#29
R-T-B
hsewAre you seriously suggesting that America being literally 20 times the size of Sweden has NOTHING to do with infrastructure costs?
He's suggesting that density is similar so that argument falls flat.
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#30
RJARRRPCGP
RowsolI've had the gigabit option for years now and for the last year or so they have been delivering 1200 Mbps. I don't know what this 900 > 1000 talk is about.
Those are actually realistic numbers for a 1 Gb service, as you usually get 900-something Mbps. The maximum average at Ookla for my VTel FTTH service, is 946 Mb for upload. Similar for download. For other places on the internet, more likely 700-900-something Mb. Even though my Steam download speeds are often excellent. Even when I don't expect Steam downloads to be faster than 930 Mbps.

But those limitations of the 1 Gb service, are nowhere near call-the-ISP-level-of-bad.
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#31
AsRock
TPU addict
TheLostSwedeI simlpy pointed out it was a technology limitation, no need to have a go at me.
Was not intended to sound like i was attacking you or any thing. I was all so just pointing it out too, seems like a system that's held up by controlling particular area's were others have a hard time getting too.

I guess Verizon cannot get were Comcast can and Camcast cannot compete with Verizon's pricing.
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#32
JAB Creations
SOAREVERSORCapitalism strikes again!
Ah, a marxist who promotes anti-capitalist cronyism crimes as capitalism. Never gets old.
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#33
neatfeatguy
Email came through today saying my speed was boosted! Reset of the modem and I ran speed test. I was getting 120/6, now I'm getting 230/6. So....yeah, I guess. Just wish the upload speed was bumped up, even if it was only to 10mbps.
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#34
jillw
I just received a text that said they meant to increase us from 100 mbps to 200 mbps but actually found out today that it's 400 mbps! I went to fast.com and my desktop reads 17, yes 17 mbps.
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