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THIS INFO ABOUT 1.2TB DATA CAPS IS OUTDATED AND AS OF 2025 NO LONGER APPLIES TO NEW PLANS
All new plans come with unlimited data regardless of region
You can remove the mobile line during checkout, but cannot remove peacock.
Existing customers can sign up for this as well. Instructions:
Don't log in initially, then look up your address, then choose add another account. Then continue towards the end and on the screen where it has you sign up for an account, choose login instead. You can complete the order now. Afterward, make sure you cancel your old account, and return equipment. Otherwise you'll be billed for two accounts concurrently.
Existing user and want this deal see MORE instructions here:
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Xfinity Internet is powered by fiber and connected to premises by coaxial cable
One drawback to this is upload and download speeds are not symmetric - the headline advertised speed is the download speed, but upload speeds are typically significantly lower. For example, looking at the Broadband Facts of the 1 Gig plan in my area, they specify typical download speed at 1170 mbps and typical upload speed at 117 mbps. In the past in different areas, I've seen advertised typical upload speeds as low as 20-40 mbps.
That may be perfectly fine for many people, in which case this is a good deal. But make sure to take a look at the upload speed for your area and confirm that it's fast enough for your needs.
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Which they did with minimal questions asked and put today as the disconnect date. That let the new account order go through and was then able to go pick up a new modem from the Xfinity store and return the old one. Good 5 year price, will be happy to not have to ask Xfinity for a new promo deal every 1-2 years.
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Does the old service automatically cancel once you activate the new one? You don't have to contact xfinity to cancel?
I can get 10gbps fiber where I live for $150 a month, I generally go with the cheapest option because anything higher is just paying more for something that most people can't use.
There certainly are exceptions but those people know what they do and what they need.
That may be perfectly fine for many people, in which case this is a good deal. But make sure to take a look at the upload speed for your area and confirm that it's fast enough for your needs.
Typical download speed: 1170 Mbps
Typical upload speed: 41 Mbps
Typical latency: 15 Milliseconds
I currently have 1gig fiber and might have jumped on this if that upload speed was better.
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Some people back up their computers or servers to a cloud service like Backblaze. Imagine backing up 100GB, 1TB, or more at 100mbps - it would take hours. They might do this daily. (Granted, subsequent uploads are typically smaller since they only include the changes from the previous day, but this depends on how often the data changes, and periodic full snapshots is a common pattern as well.)
Others might upload videos to YouTube (or even just iCloud/Google Photos/etc) - depending on how they encoded their video, a 4K high bitrate video can easily run 10-50+ mbps of footage. They may want to be able to upload that video quickly.
Others might host their own media library using software like Plex. If they make it available to friends and family, they might have multiple people streaming (potentially high-quality/high-bitrate) content from their media server. That requires they have sufficient upload bandwidth.
Others may develop software and build binaries that they need to shuffle back and forth between local and remote hosts. Each binary may be multiple GBs in size. They may find it annoying if they have to wait for a minute or more to transfer these around.
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