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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+202So does this mean that when China takes over the US, we'll finally get in home fiber?
- leetleo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+164All those bootleg DVDs aren't going to download themselves.
- MalikNYC, on 10/10/2007, -3/+87STOP HOGGING ALL THE TUBES!
- priegog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+78Holy *****... And here I sat, feeling all snug about my 20Mbps (in Spain)... Damn you Hong Kong!
- SirZRX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+72i pay 100 usd for 2mb|20kbps, i feel raped now!
- darkened, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45I'd gladly pay $97/month for 100mbps symetric.
- moorehouse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42We'll see this in the US in about 20 years. The cable company monopoly gives them no incentive to upgrade the lines to handle this kind of bandwidth.
- Listor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39::packs bags::
- AwakeningAZ, on 10/10/2007, -8/+43That is a LOT of porn.
- digithed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29I live in Sweden and get 100Mbps download and 10Mbps upload completely unmetered with no limits (it even says so in the terms and conditions) for 320kr a month which is about the same as the price given here for the 100Mbps symmetric connection in Hong Kong ($48). So that compares quite well. I don't know if there are any limits on the package in Hong Kong?
To all the people who try to use the same tired arguments about population density, as has already been mentioned, Sweden has a lower population density than the USA. I live in a town of about 120,000 people (big by Swedish standards but small when compared to towns in the USA). So go and find another reason for the differences because population density does not explain it. - djhomeless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Went to college for the bandwidth...now that college is over i guess its time to ship out to HK
- rastakid, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25Alright, would you pay 97 bucks for it?
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -15/+37Of course the median household income is also 1/2 that of the US. Exchange rate != Purchasing Power Parity.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23I, for one...
- ronar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Sweden actually has a lower population density than the US. Its landmass is actually quite large.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ... - chingy1788, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I have 10Mbps in Australia, sigh and that costs $65 AUD a month
and I get speed capped to 64/64kbps if I go over a 36GB Limit, guess which provider I'm with - chingy1788, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19That would be Korea, not Hong Kong
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21That's a LOT of anime porn
- PawFox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Method One: Big Big Big Cat6 Cable across the ocean
Method Two: Cry - weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Error601: The cost of living in Hong Kong is about the same as the United Kingdom.
Besides, seeing how these are residential packages and the 100Mbits service is slated as their lower end service I imagine it's probably affordable.
"The company says they're phasing out their symmetrical 10Mbps service -- the slowest tier they offer now clocks in at a symmetrical 25Mbps."
I'll take some of that phased out 10Mbit service please... - djphatjive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Only!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+156 mbps, $45 USD. Everything I do gets reported to the NSA. I wonder what percentage of my fee goes to paying for that "service".
- Sheff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Yes, but your google searches will be filtered.
- EarlOfLade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Lucky you!
I live in a 3rd world country called USA and in a high population density area and get some ***** cable or DSL that costs and arm and a a leg and sucks donkey balls.
USA! USA! USA! #43! YEAH, baby! - EzarKun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13this is bull *****
Stupid Bell Sympatico here in Ottawa wont upgrade my residential line to 7Mbps, the present mid tier choice here in ottawa which goes around $50/month. So I am stuck with their old 3 Mbps line.
But I complained and got unlimited donwload and upload and they reduced their price for 3Mbps which I was originally paying $45, now to $24.
wtf is this, stupid corps of America - borislau, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Hong Kong is ***** pimp. That's why I live here.
- dagamer34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12The cable company won't be "cable" anymore when they get to those speeds. It needs to be all fiber.
- aspec, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12What is that, Satellite?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I'm in SA on ADSL1 (512kbps), I'd love cable but the local councils 10 years ago blocked the rollout, because the environmentalists all complained about an extra black cable hanging from the powerlines! So I have cable in my street but it's not connected to anything. Damn hippies!
Oh and I love how the cheap ADSL2+ plans all come with less than 200MB of downloads. That's like a few minutes of continuous downloading for a whole month! - rotten777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9key phrase there... "is going to"
until then? stfu! - drlha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10$50 sounds a lot but that's Canadian Dollars isn't it which are worth much less.... ...... ....oh wait.
- arobar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8What second rate ISP charges your $100 USD for 2 megabit service?
- cankillar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10I get 1.2Mbs|300kBs
Damn, US, let's get with the times here. - Verdanic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Shouldn't they be more worried about.... well, anything less trivial than extra lines on the power cables? What the hell?
- mudgod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8How about seeing it in densely populated urban areas within the US? Manhattan? Chicago? DC? :P
- Klinky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yes but it's also doubtful you could saturate 100mbps on most internet servers anyways :)
- MrViklund, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No. You don't need to live in Hong Kong. You can get that in Sweden too if you live in the right place.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Meh, we're just subtle enough to just log all your *****, so you never actually know when you step over the line.
- grimward, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Here in sweden, provided you live in the right town, you can get 100/100 megabit for 25€ a month :P
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7We have a glut of dark fiber, and every router company rolled out petabit routers years ago. There is no excuse. Our telcos are ripping us off and should be broken up into wholesale and retail operations.
- TypeEE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Only? I pay $20, but I get 1.5mbps OOOOOOOOOOOOOOONLY
- honeymustardn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I have a 1Mbps connection, 5GB cap, £20 a month. *****.
- mercurysquad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Just an hour ago I saw huge advertisements at the mall for flat-rate 26 Mbps connection for €26 per month (in Germany), and I was thinking, wow that's cheap. Then I log on to digg and I see this.
Doesn't matter much to me though, I'm on campus ethernet at 100 mbps anyway :D - bmalnad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5RIght... because the only thing you can do on the internet is steal movies and music?
- madmax85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5i pay $25 for my 100Mbit fiber connection, unlimited bandwidth. in sweden.
- Chandon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5100Mbps isn't about "pages", it's about sending the HDTV video of your kid's soccer game to the grandparents in less than a week. It's about actually being able to see the pattern on the other guy's tie during a video-conference. If everyone has that, someone can start an on-demand streaming movie service that's actually worth using.
Increases in processing power, RAM, and bandwidth aren't interesting because of the applications that already work fine - they're interesting because of the applications that didn't seem feasible before. Contrary to popular belief, just because you don't need something right now that's unavailable to you right now doesn't mean that it wouldn't be wildly useful to have it. - daridave, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6with 100mbps upload speed, I would basically get an monster pc at home, a crappy laptop for work, and do remote desktop 24/7 on it.
- foreplay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Sweden has a low population density except in its metropolitan areas; 84% of the population lives in urban areas, which take up only 1.3% of the total land area.
- yellowsnowcone, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8The irony is, you have to live in the poor parts of Hong Kong to get this service. I've met Ricky Wong several times and been to his home on The Peak, and he'll tell you he's fostering a "reverse digital divide" in Hong Kong. He's rolling out his network in the densely packed government estates, but bypassing rich neighbourhoods, including his own. So, I can't get his service. Instead, I have to use PCCW, which only delivers 25mbps.
- luchid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I agrre... but the US government already subsidized infrastructure improvements.. Guess where the money went? Telcos'/CC's pockets...
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