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Xfinity customers, did your internet get faster over the last few days? Comcast says it increased internet speeds for subscribers free of charge.
On Tuesday, the company announced the free upgrade, which applies to over 20 million customers on the Xfinity Internet and NOW plans. Users can expect “50 to 100% faster upload speeds than before,” Comcast says. Some plans also get a boost in download rates.
That said, don’t expect a huge speed boost. Here’s what Comcast is promising for upload/download Mbps for each plan:
- NOW: 100/10 and 200/10 to 100/20 and 200/20
- Connect: 150/100 to 150/150
- Connect More: 300/100 to 400/150
- Fast: 500/100 to 600/150
- Superfast: 800/100 to 800/150
- Gigabit: 1,000/150 to 1,100/300
- Gigabit x2: 2,000/300 to 2,100/300
As you see, some of the speed increases are more of an incremental boost that may be hard to notice. Also, not every plan is receiving an upgrade. Still, it’s a free perk that promises to help users post media files to the internet faster.
(Credit: Comcast)Comcast began increasing speeds quietly late last week, and it credits the speed increases to investments and technology advancements in its fiber network.\
The ISP rolled out a similar upgrade last year, lifting Connect plan users from 75Mbps to 150Mbps and Xfinity prepaid customers from 50Mbps to 200Mbps.
As part of Tuesday’s announcement, Comcast is also offering new and existing Xfinity customers a cell phone line with unlimited data on Xfinity Mobile “included for a year when they subscribe to a 400Mbps or faster plan.”