Comment Re:This is awesome. Go Google. (Score 1) 408
No... It's not a matter of flipping a switch on their existing equipment and all of a sudden they have a ton of extra bandwidth to give to customers. In order to provide lots of people higher cable modem speeds you need to spend money on head-end equipment, fiber plant, and then cable plant to segment your network enough to keep it from being over-subscribed. If they already had D3 capable equipment and just 'flipped the switch' any one person might have a whole lot of bandwidth at 4AM, but it will start to slow to a crawl when everyone else is using it.
Cable ISPs don't have a lot of unused bandwidth they're sitting on to just be a-holes to everyone.