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Comcast revs things up in The Woodlands
Posted on April 21, 2011
Comcast customers with fat wallets and a need for speed can now sign up for Internet access that's faster than many office network connections.
The cable provider this week began selling a 105-megabits-per-second service to residential customers, initially only in The Woodlands. The service will be expanded to adjacent neighborhoods soon, and eventually will be available throughout the Houston area.
Called Extreme 105, the service costs $105 a month for the first 12 months, provided you are using other Comcast services, such as phone or TV. The price goes up to $129.99 after a year. Customers who don't want any other Comcast services will pay $199.95 a month for the Internet access alone. There's also a $249 installation fee.
A Comcast spokesman said the service requires a newer DOCSIS 3.0 modem, and technicians must check a customer's home wiring and computers to ensure they can deliver the speed.
Most Comcast customers have older, DOCSIS 2.0 modems, though the company has been selling a DOCSIS 3.0-based service — Extreme 50 - in Houston for about a year. An 802.11n Wi-Fi router is also included with the service.
As with Comcast's other Internet offerings, Extreme 105 customers are subject to a data transfer cap of 250 gigabytes a month, the spokesman said.
The offering is one of the fastest residential Internet services in the Houston area. Many wired, corporate networks run at 100 Mbps, a technology called Fast Ethernet.
At 105 Mbps, customers would be able to download 4 gigabytes of data - about the size of a high-definition movie - in about five minutes.
By comparison, competitor AT&T's U-verse Internet service has a maximum speed of 24 Mbps at $65 a month. Verizon's FiOS is available in some area suburbs at 50 Mbps for $139.95.
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