reader comments 103 with 88 posters participating Share this story Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of 35Mbps will be reduced to uploads of either 5Mbps, 10Mbps, or 20Mbps, depending on the plan. Altice did… Read More: Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86%… »
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: Comcast offers tantalizing hint of a future with upload speeds… »
reader comments 51 with 49 posters participating Share this story Some Comcast customers received an unwelcome surprise yesterday morning when their upload speeds were suddenly lowered from 20Mbps to 16Mbps. Comcast was raising download speeds on its “Extreme Pro” tier from 600Mbps to 800Mbps—good news, to be sure—but the plan’s relatively paltry 20Mbps upload speeds… Read More: Comcast scrambled to fix mistake that cut some users’ upload… »
reader comments 77 with 59 posters participating Share this story James, a Cox cable-Internet customer in Irvine, California, got an unwelcome email on Tuesday from the Internet provider. Cox’s email told James, who pays $80 a month for broadband, that his 30Mbps upload speeds will soon be reduced to 10Mbps. A Cox spokesperson told Ars… Read More: Cox cuts some users’ uploads from 30Mbps to 10Mbps—here’s how… »