With its of Time Warner Cable plus a ruling on expected next year, Comcast is on its best behavior and tossed a few very good goodies to customers on Tuesday.
For Denver-area customers, Comcast unleashed faster speeds starting today to subscribers of certain Internet plans:
- Performance Tier customers download speeds should jump to 50 Mbps, from yesterday’s 25 Mbps.
- Blast customers can now get up 105 Mbps, compared to yesterday’s 50 Mbps.
- And Extreme 105 customers will see their 105 Mbps speed jump to 150 Mbps, which presumably will change the category name as well.
I am a Comcast customer so I thought I’d for everyone. The result:
That’s about a 51 percent improvement in download speeds! But notice, the upload speeds are capped (take that file sharers). And even with the faster network, my upload speed went down ever so slightly. Still, the overall speeds are some of the fastest for the area, unless you happen to .
The upgrade is automatic but not necessarily immediate. Anxious customers can go ahead and reboot their modem to speed up the process. If you don’t see a speed jump, your modem may be too old. Comcast says it will let those customers know if they need to upgrade their hardware.
Also, for any Roku owners who are also Comcast customers, you can now stream HBO Go or Showtime Anytime on a Roku box. Comcast was one of few providers that didn’t let its customers who subscribe to HBO or Showtime also get the channels on Roku’s streaming box. No word on the ban, but the channel is now available to Xfinity TV customers, .
