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  1. Comment - Comcast to roll out 50 Mbps 'wideband' to Philly, Boston, NJ, NH

    (Oct 23, 2008 - 2:53 PM)

    Just a math comment--the speeds being discussed here are Mbps (the little b is bits, not bytes). Often download rates are expressed in Mbps instead of the more understandable MB/s rate we'd like to use. Since there are 8 bits in a byte, and possible parity (8-1-N, anyone?), a factor of 8 or 9 needs to be applied. Thus the Extreme 50 customer could conceivably download 250 GB in ~12 hours, not 85 minutes. By this same math, the Hi-Def movie that is presented by Comcast would be ~5.3 GB.