Many internet users simply think about download speeds when they are shopping for a service provider. What some forget to consider is the upload speed of a plan. This is particularly important to those who upload pictures to internet sharing sites and videos to YouTube and similar services.
Comcast announced today that it will be increasing the upload speed of two of its internet packages at no additional cost. Comcast says that its 6 Mbps download / 384 Kbps upload package will see the upload speed nearly tripled. The new plan will keep the same download speed and increase the upload speed to 1 Mbps.
Comcast's faster 8 Mbps download / 768 Kbps upload package will see a bit more than twice the upload speed to 2 Mbps uploads. Comcast had previously announced a service called PowerBoost that increases download speeds to 12 Mbps on the Performance tier plans and up to 16 Mbps on the Performance Plus tier on files that are 10MB or less in size.
Senior Vice President and General manager of Comcast High-Speed internet Mitch Bowling said in a statement, "As the Internet and its functionality evolves, so will our services and offerings," said Mitch Bowling, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Comcast High-Speed Internet, Comcast Cable. "We've made a number of complimentary speed increases over the last few years and we focused this latest increase on upstream speeds so our customers can take even better advantage of the ever-expanding amount of interactive applications the Internet has to offer."
Increasing upload speeds for customers will be a welcome announcement when other internet providers have been announcing usage based plans in some areas. Time Warner announced recently that its lower cost plans would have a monthly bandwidth limit of only 5GB in one test area.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
"Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware."
It's for the best.
Quit stringing along xbox fans and screwing over PlayStation owners.
An Xbox game on a Playstation. Never in my years of gaming did i ever thought this was gonna happen.
No way can they get rid of the hardware as probably 90% of game pass subscribers are hardware users.
Highly doubtful those users will move to PC or Cloud to subscribe there and the competition (Sony and Nin) will never have gamepass on their system.
If they want to keep the current subscribers, they need to keep releasing new hardware.
I'm not convinced, why then announce that they're actually working on the next-generation Xbox with “the largest technical leap”, and also looking into handhelds now?
Not like MS don’t drop things a hot potato if it is not performing. Look at MS history to see products or platforms discontinued. Xbox is not a charity for MS, it needs to make money and the ABK was the last roll of the dice for Xbox.
Xbox hardware team members have been incorporated into surface team
This perhaps shows they are not expecting big things from Xbox as a separate entity
Seems like they are planning to win next gen. All the acquisitions were this generation and nobody except Xbox fans expect games from the acquisitions any time soon.
I’m sure Microsoft can afford to lose money on the short term, pretty sure they do risk assessment when acquiring many companies and spending billions, they’ll be fine lol.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
They wont kill it, but they will go fully PC while keeping xbox as a brand, and go multiplatform for the most part. They will also work tirelessly to diminish console gaming’s importance.
It would be best if Xbox goes the way of Sega, just make and publish games. I know I myself will not support them at all with buying games from them, you all can. 🙃
The Xbox brand will live for the games. I don’t expect Microsoft to entirely drop out of gaming hardware. They make Surface tablets and laptops. They’ll make Xbox branded hardware for those that want it.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
Starfield would be no surprise and there's the rumor that it will come to Playstation after the Shattered Space DLC, Forza (along with Halo and Gears of War) I find less likely but I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually end up on PlayStation too, especially if Xbox give up on hardware and go the Sega route.
Not to worried about forza. I'd rather see others like what inxile and obsidian are working on. Starfield sounds like it needs more time in the oven so let it cook first imo. If starfield and it's a small if does release on ps it'll be in the fall around the time for dlc or right at the dlc and come packaged with it.
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
100%!!
I wonder what happened to that dude that was always here posting those court articles with cartoons about MS spending all those billions in studios. He suddenly disappeared, I guess he doesn't like bad news when the green brand is in trouble. No new articles from him as of late...
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I've went round and round with Comcast the last month on this issue in my area. I am now batting 34000 + kbps on my uploads. which isn't bad at all. I'm doing nearly 36mb per second on my downloads and I have 8mb service.
Problem is, when I do a speed test in my area server it is 152, but when I do it in another area it's at 74 go figure. Yet, all my trace routes are hitting fine and I have no packet loss. I think it's speedtest.net, if you ask me cause all the other speedtest sites are accurate with comcast.
Ya. At no cost because thats what we should of been getting in the first place for what you pay for their sh1tty service....
When is Verizon gonna do this. I pay $30 for 756kbs speed, 10kbs upload and 100kbs download. Damn they are raping me. In Mexico you pay $25 for 2mb speed.
to steal market share from other hsd providers. more importantly Verizon with Fios and At&T with U-verse.
Time Warner cable has done the same thing at no cost to the customer. Cable companies actually have a honor amongst theives mentality. Watch for cable vision and others to soon follow with their hsd speeds. Just like cable won't pay the NFL xamount of millions for the NFL network they all follow suite withe each other. Ever notice how no cable company bumps head like satellite. I mean you see dish and direct tv in the same space all the time but don't see cable companies crossing each others territory. Think about it.
Cable/Phone companies are the biggest crook companies next to nigeran scammers. They always get protected from the government and each company has their little region of monopoly.
That is why they never butt heads, it is not a free market. Where I used to live, I could not get Comcast and was stuck with ATT. My new place though gets Comcast and so far has performed great well at least compared to ATT.