Ars-Technica is reporting that there may be another speed boost coming from Comcast in the first quarter. If they are correct, users will be boosted from 3mb / 256kb to 4mb / 384kb. Like last time this will be with no price increase - and all it took was a power cycle on the cable modem. According to the article premium service users ($10 more than normal price) will be boosted to 6Mb / 768kb!!! Hey I didn't know they had reduced the price of the premium service to just $10 more. Last time I checked it was almost $100.00 a month. I hope this is true, there is no such thing as too much bandwidth.

Sweet! I'm on comcast in SF and you are correct, there is never too much bandwidth. The latency can never be too low either... I'll never be truly happy with the internet until I sub-millisecond ping times to any point on the Earth ("Damned Lag!").

I also need this.

Upload bandwidth is becoming the limiting factor. You typically can't find a site to feed you 6Mb, but the upload limits VPN and BitTorrent sessions. You can get 1Mb up and down through DSL for under $50, whereas this comcast thing will be $65. Maybe this will pressure cable's pricing down. BTW, this Mega-bit thing is lame. I want to see KB/s When are 2.4 terabit drives coming out? Oh yeah, they're already here... Wait - is that a 1000 megabit per terabit or 1024 megabit per terabit... Definition of kibibit.

Yeah, upstream is important for you torrent heads. It is also important for hosting games. But other than that most users are very asymmetrical. For a typical VPN to work / remote desktop scenario having more downstream bandwidth is really what it is all about. Upstream is just mouse clicks and keyboard presses.

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