The Chicago area is one of the first markets that will be getting the fastest new internet service, which will really speed up things like music downloads. Comcast Corp. will offer a super-fast internet service which the company says will allow a user to download a 10-song music album in just three seconds.
The Extreme 105 service will be quite expensive at $200 a month for new and existing Comcast customers in Chicago. In other markets, Comcast is offering an introductory rate of $15 a month. This offering is geared towards household with intense bandwidth needs or many web-connected devices like computers, gaming consoles and tablets. At 105 megabits per second, a user can download a four-gigabyte, high-definition movie in five minutes. In comparison, this would take 1 ½ hours using a 6-megabits-per-second connection.