Comcast is rolling out speed upgrades for its Xfinity customers

Speed increases happen from time to time as ISPs continue to compete against each other. This requirement is all the more important now that fiber is taking so much of the world by surprise with its incredibly fast speeds and low costs (to the consumer). Now, Comcast is rolling out a small increase to Comcast Xfinity customers in its latest attempt to remain relevant.

These speeds haven’t seen any major increases for some time when it comes to cable providers (coax), but consumers will take whatever they can get. Thankfully, with hybrid coax/fiber, some of these speeds have gotten as high as some of the introductory fiber options (although fiber is still less expensive half the time).

In this latest update, it seems that Comcast is giving a small speed boost to all of its accounts, with an average of around 100 Mbps for many of its tiers that are 300 Mbps and above. Some others only saw a little boost to upstream bandwidth. This includes its 1,000 and 2,000 Mbps tiers, which are now 1,100 and 2,100 Mbps. It isn’t the biggest boost, but like I said, consumers will take what they can get.

Hopefully, this will inspire competition (ie, Cox Communications) to do the same, since many of these companies are trailing so far behind fiber alternatives and customers are yearning for either improvement or change. This might be a good chance for the competition to attempt to one-up Comcast with an even better move on their own. Not only that, but (hopefully) they will be upping the monthly quotas to compensate for the additional demand.