Comcast, the largest MSO in the U.S., has doubled the downstream speed of its residential cable modem service to 3 Mbps from 1.5 Mbps. The upgrade is provided at no additional cost to the end user. Upstream speeds will remain the same at 256 Kbps. The upgrade has occurred in 14 U.S. markets and will be expanded to all Comcast markets based on technical readiness. The company projects that the majority of customers will receive the faster speed by the end of the year. Customers need to power-down and then restart their modems. No other changes are required.
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- Comcast currently provides high-speed Internet service to nearly 4.4 million customers.
