Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in San Ramon, California on February 25, 2020. Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 65 Comcast waited 13 days to patch its network against a high-severity vulnerability, a lapse that allowed hackers to make off with password data and other sensitive information belonging to 36 million Xfinity… Read More »
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway with Wi-Fi 6E. reader comments 92 with 69 posters participating Share this story For Comcast Internet customers frustrated by the cable service’s slow upload speeds, there have been some welcome announcements recently. But the availability of faster Comcast uploads has a catch—users can only get the higher upstream speeds… Read More »
Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. Los Altos Hills Community Fiber reader comments 173 with 105 posters participating, including story author Share this story Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s… Read More »
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. Getty Images | Jeff Fusco reader comments 75 with 65 posters participating Share this story Comcast announced today that it has tested “the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds” and said it’s on track to deliver multi-gigabit download and upload speeds to at least some cable… Read More »
Enlarge / Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at an event in Beijing on October 17, 2019. Comcast is the largest Internet provider in the US with over 29.8 million residential broadband customers, but the company’s long streak of adding Internet subscribers each quarter is finally over. In Q2 2022 earnings announced today, Comcast said it has… Read More »
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. Getty Images | Jeff Fusco reader comments 46 with 40 posters participating Share this story Comcast says it won’t deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year’s reprieve to 12 states and a few other areas where Comcast customers don’t face overage fees. “We don’t… Read More »
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. Getty Images | Sundry Photography reader comments 79 with 66 posters participating Share this story There appears to be a widespread Comcast outage affecting customers in multiple parts of the country this morning. News reports have described large outages in Chicago, Philadelphia,… Read More »
Enlarge / A giant peacock in front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Getty Images | NBC reader comments 89 with 65 posters participating, including story author Share this story NBCUniversal recently asked YouTube TV to bundle Peacock, the NBC streaming service that has apparently failed to get many paying subscribers. The Comcast-owned… Read More »
Enlarge / Picture of a Comcast router/modem gateway from the company’s website. reader comments 29 with 27 posters participating Share this story Comcast today offered the latest hint of a future in which its cable customers won’t be limited to 35Mbps upload speeds. Announcing a recent lab test, Comcast said its research team “deliver[ed] upstream… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 64 with 42 posters participating Share this story When Edward Koll and his girlfriend, Jo Narkon, bought and moved into a new house in Draper, Virginia in late September 2020, they had every reason to think that Comcast Internet would be readily available. They had done their due… Read More »