Rumor has it that Comcast is upping the cap for it’s cable modem users. I will now be getting 6mpbs down and 768kbps up for around $50 a month. All I can say is that it’s about time. I remember in 1999, when I first got setup with Excite@HOME cable modem service. Forty bucks a month got me 1.5mbps down and 128kbps up…….except that Excite didn’t actually cap the service. So what I actually got was about 4mbps down and 2mbps up; this was truly awesome. I remember sitting there six years ago, I felt like the future was now. I would ponder how fast the connections would be in 5 years. I thought, “Surely we will all be surfing at 100mbps in 5 years”. Boy was I wrong. Unfortunately, like many an excellent company with a jaded business plan, Excite got ruined in the tech bubble and was no more by 2001 or so.

Isn’t technology great? Here we are in silicon valley, six years have passed, and broadband still is slower (on the uplink) than it was in 1999. Fantastic. So much for my 100Mbps dreams….