Altice cuts uploads from 35Mbps to 5Mbps to bring them “in line with other ISPs.”…
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Cox warns customers to lower usage, imposes 10Mbps upload limit on “gigabit” plan.
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Quase desmaiei de tanto rir com um comentário no link sobre a Cox. Foi de longe a melhor explicação de como é o upload deles, e que sem dúvida é um espelho da Claro.
Quote:
I remember the exact moment I told Cox I was cancelling after the FiOS installation was complete and their support guy replied, "Okay, what is the price at which we can keep you?"
"Nothing. There's not a price in the world that would keep me on Cox. Your network is crap and I can't play on Xbox Live because your upload speeds are rivaled by satellite connections through a hurricane."
E uma ótima confirmação do que todos já sabem sobre o DOCSIS e as empresas que os utiliza:
Cable keeps teasing higher uploads without delivering
For years, the cable industry has been teasing future upgrades that would let cable networks deliver symmetrical download and upload speeds just as fiber networks do. But despite upgrades to DOCSIS, the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification, major cable providers generally still do not provide upload speeds higher than 35Mbps.
Altice cutting its cable upload speeds while building out symmetrical-speed fiber is another indication that fiber will maintain its superiority over cable networks for the foreseeable future. A year ago, Cox
lowered upload speeds in some entire neighborhoods due to congestion, and no cable network appears close to delivering an upload-speed breakthrough to customers.
Comcast recently
touted a lab test in which it used DOCSIS 4.0 to deliver 4Gbps uploads and downloads over cable, but the company gave no indication of when it will raise its commercially available cable-upload speeds. Like Altice, Comcast only offers symmetrical speeds on its fiber network, which isn't as widespread as its cable footprint.
Comcast and
Charter's advertised upload speeds on their cable networks still max out at
35Mbps, and customers have to buy the gigabit-download plan to get that 35Mbps upload rate. Comcast's slowest plan has only 3Mbps uploads, and Charter's slowest plan has 4Mbps uploads.