Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection2025-01-29 14:29 by DanielaTags: Comcast
This morning, Comcast announced a new technology that would significantly reduce network latency, ensuring a smoother experience for Apple, Meta, Nvidia and Valve's Steam users. The initial rollout began and will expand to cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Rockville (Maryland) and San Francisco, deploying in more locations across the country rapidly over the next few months. The technology powering this upgrade is based on a standard called L4S, which stands for "Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput." L4S gives internet packets an indicator that lets them know if they've run into congestion or queueing along any of the hops in their trip between a user and whatever they're connecting to. If there is a delay, then the devices can start to adjust to stop making the congestion worse - and possibly eliminate it entirely. With this launch, Comcast explains, latency for FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, apps for Meta's mixed reality headsets like the Quest 3, many Steam games, and NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, will be drastically reduced. In the future, "other applications that choose to leverage this open standard technology" will be supported as well. In most markets, Xfinity users can expect maximum download speeds of 1,000 or 1,200 megabits per second. Read more -here-
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