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- SaintDogbert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+117I can't wait to start holding my breath for this!
- BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -16/+66Well good for you.
For the 99% rest of us who don't have Verizon as our local phone company (thank God), we will be happy sticking with our cable companies which have continued to wipe the floor with your telco, especially when it comes to customer service and up-time. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51This means it's possible, not that any cable company would actually give it to us..
- justinmorris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49I don't think I'll ever get used to calling years out like that and not referring to the 1900's.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45I'm still waiting to see my full 4 mbps, damnit.
- Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Still waiting for anything faster than 3.5mbps over here....
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31and the catch is net neutrality must die.
- TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22let's face it, they will never run fiber to me out in hickville. Charter is my only option for internet, so I welcome this connection. (Although I'm sure the up speed will be more like 512kbps knowing charter)
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32160/120 is LESS than 1gbps. 160/120 will come before 1gbps.
or is there something I am not getting? - gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22So we'll really see this some time in the 20's or 30's?
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22You could get a 56k for like 10 bucks.
- Darkhacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Fiber optics is the bees knees!
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I'm still waiting on fiber to my damn house...DAMN YOU TELE COMMS! DAMN YOU ALL!!!!
- bodger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Won't someone think of the tubes?!
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13..Or just divide by 8
- dmurray14, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Cool. In the mean time, I'll switch to FiOS.
- Qoogirl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@ ZANKY:
I agree that FiOS is the future. Unfortunately, most North Americans are not able to hop onto FiOS just yet. It's not as widely spread to take advantage of yet. Not to mention people have never even heard of it! My city isn't even completely covered in Yahoo! DSL yet for crying out loud. I've accepted the fact that I need to live in Japan again if I want to be on the cutting edge of technology (though, South Korea beats them out in that while some people say they can't even afford a DVD player, they've never even fathomed "dial-up"--something that still exists in both the US and Japan)....
These cable speeds won't even be here until 2009, no doubt. FiOS was already supposed to have happened for more than half of us. Let us all take a look at how that's gone! - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Learn English, not Engrish.
- BeachSide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@GraceMolloy
Good luck getting away from AT&T. After 20 years of splitting them apart, congress has helped them move to merging to become one big telco again. - GraceMolloy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Did anyone bother to tell you that all your information is being sold to the NSA?
I want FiOS speed. But I refuse to use Verizon or AT&T. - Corvillus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Technically, DOCSIS 1.0 allows speeds of up to 38Mbps down/10Mbps up and DOCSIS 2.0 allows speeds of up to 40Mbps down/30Mbps up. DOCSIS 3.0 offering 160Mbps down/120Mbps up doesn't mean you're going to see 160/120, because much like it's predecessors, you're probably only going to see a small fraction of the possible speed anyway due to ISP capping.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10A better question,
What the hell COULDN'T you do with 160mps? :D - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Verizon's customer service and uptime has been phenomenal!"
In your area.
"With comcast I would loose Internet access sometimes up to once a week for a couple hours."
Again, in your area. From what I can see, performance of a brand is inconsistent across regions. The very fact that Verizon doesn't offer fiber in all the areas in which it does business alone attests to that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It sucks to watch ASCII porn.
- awa1ct, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Its okay. It'll only take comcast an extra 10 years to catch on, once everything is ready.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is never going to happen. There are too many billy bob's in the U.S. that think dial up is cutting edge enough.
I actually know many people who have never even been on cable or DSL internet, wtf are we doing in this country? - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Geek Bragging Rights™ of course.
- sydlexius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It is generally accepted that any medium that transmits data serially (RS232, USB, Ethernet/Fiber, etc) measures in bits, since they can only be sent sequentially. With parallel devices (ATA, SCSI, etc), throughput is described in bytes/sec. The oddballs like SATA, SAS, and FB-DIMMs are the exception (in that they're popularly described in bytes, but the specifications also describe in bits/sec). Hope this helps!
- kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10In other news, Comcast won't be giving me these speeds until next century! Wheres my fiber to the home you bastards!
- Kosterfield, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Because 8 bits equals 1 byte, so it allows them to make the numbers sound bigger and faster then they really are... It also helps that it confuses the people who think a bit and byte are the same thing.
- metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Is there a reason they measure all speeds in bits and not bytes? I'm not too technical with that.
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"Well I remember back in aught six when we only had 6Mbps, and we liked it!"
-- EochaidRiata to grandchildren circa 2040 - defubar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I am unfortunate enough to live in Charter Communications' area and 3Mbps Internet costs more than Comcast's 8Mbps, yay?
- azidrane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Fantastic. we'll get your brand new model T off the line asap! Just sign this contract...
- pastasauce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Too bad the world is ending in 2012...
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Communication data is always measured in bits, while storage is measured in bytes.. probably because bits are every 0 and 1, and it's makes sense to have a number that determines how many of them make it through the connection every second..
so 1mbit means about 1 million binary numbers stream through every second.. (or more accurately, 1,048,576 bits) - Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ ZaNkY
Yeah the difference between 15Mbps and 1Gbps (1000 MBps) is negligable. Should be there in no time. I encourage you to hold your breath.
Seriously, I got 2Mbps cable in 1999, and now in 2006 its at 10MBps (although I pay extra, we will still count this figure). If speed increase over time is a linear function, we should have 1Gbps cable by March of 2872! If we consider it an exponential function, 2^n, like Moore's Law (the popular version), then we will have 1Gbps cable by January 2026. The equations I used for this were the following: Linear: y = 8/7x
Exponential: 2 * 1.258 ^ x (year 0 = 1999). This assumes that cable was install during January of the year. - xeigen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Hes only misplaced the d on dead and missed a comma. But still should have checked it before submitting.
- duodave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Funny, my cable company has had a county-wide fiber-optic network for years. Only the cable inside the house is actual copper. Surely you don't think they're pushing 300+ channels plus 800mb/sec over copper.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8ANYWHERE in the US. You can get 1 gbit in Europe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12im still on my 28k modem,it gets the job done
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"..and it ran Windows ME... MUAHAHAHAHAHA"
*kids scream and cry* - xeigen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I hate the "56k is fast enough for me" mentality.
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Right. They can't deliver what they promist now. Right now I can get 9Mbps (alleged) for an additional 10 bucks. And what are you going to use it for? Most servers can only deliver like 1-2.
- subflames, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ ilyag
ummm you do know about P2P right the nets not all about web sites - GraceMolloy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@BeachSide
Ya I know. I used to work for them. I hope they burn to the ground. - IHatePants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@steelmaverick and 0101010
I just gave two 56k modems to Goodwill (today in fact). Granted, until 2 years ago I couldn't get DSL or cable at my house. I live *way* out in the middle of nowhere, though. (30 miles from the nearest decent sized town.)
56k is the new "bottom end" of the spectrum. This is a little head-spinning for me, since I grew up in the 300bps days. I can't wait to see what is around the corner, and some of these advancements leave me really excited. - rypaintD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No, Time Warner and Comcast both bought Adelphia and Comcast and Time Warner traded some of their areas so the opposite provider would give cable there.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@justinmorris: Welcome to the new century
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@EochaidRiata
"Gather around kiddies, for it is time for a true halloween story. Why, when I was a young'n about 5 or six... my parents bought their first modern 'computer'. It came with a system to connect to the internet, no it wasn't fibre channel. It was called 14.4. The 14.4 stood for... *dun dun dunnn* Kilobytes per second." -
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