This weekend, I upgraded my home cable DSL service to Ultra with Comcast. This gives me blistering speeds of 30Mbps down and 10Mbps up. I’ve been very impressed so far. Uploading my pictures and videos to sites such as Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo is now easier than ever before. Having many wifi devices in the house, coupled with my Mac, PCs, DirecTV, Sling, Playstation 3 and Roku box – I’m finding a thirst for more bandwidth!

To get these speeds, I had to upgrade my modem to be compatible with the new DOCSIS 3.0 format. You can find out more about Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 here.

Comcast have an approved modem list. I went with the Motorola SB6120. These are available to purchase (rather than lease from Comcast) from Amazon, Best Buy and Frys.

The speed is now blistering. To give you a real example, I downloaded the HD 1080p 154Mb Harry Potter trailer from Apple’s Quicktime site in 75 seconds. Now that’s fast.