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- Topher06, on 05/13/2008, -5/+63Thats the ***** right there!
- MCA2142, on 05/13/2008, -0/+28Hey UK,
Start seeding. Share the love. - sanman, on 05/13/2008, -1/+28hah, ninja turtles can keep their command center online ;P
- Kmap, on 05/13/2008, -2/+28I'm holding out for Google TiSP
- krawkula, on 05/13/2008, -1/+20The sewer mutants will love this.
- darkfate, on 05/13/2008, -4/+19Love the OS 9 screen!
- FunkyWorm, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-09-08/
It seemed like a stupid idea five years ago...... - mattsx, on 05/13/2008, -1/+12Downstream bandwidth is fast, but I heard the upstream is somewhere between crappy and piss-poor.
- Babau, on 05/13/2008, -0/+11Why isn't this happening everywhere? It makes so much sense.
- ayeroxor, on 05/13/2008, -1/+8your
- pmpsta, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7That's pretty unconventional from where I'm from but brilliant. I could see many hard-up municipalities around here leasing out sewer rights for a new competitor to enter the marketplace. More money for them but, the more I think about it the more likely outcome is for the big players (Comcast & ATT) to probably do a back-room deal to keep things as they are. Scratch that.
- GlassAgate, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7I feel sorry for the poor sap that has to go down
there to perform maintenance. - YodaJones, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7Dude, you totally have a 100 Mbps Internet connection coming out of your toilet.
- soapbeard, on 05/13/2008, -0/+9This may only work because of the large victorian over-engineered brick sewers we have in cities in the UK. I believe more modern sewers employ smaller buried pipes which may not be as appropriate for this kind of thing.
- PolarZoe, on 05/13/2008, -6/+13Duplicate: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_TiSP_Joke_Becomes ...
- Funktastic, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7than
- chedabob, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Will you ***** off? Nobody gives a ***** about your little dispute with onetimer.
- mossblaser, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Do you have any idea how thin optic cable bunches are and how large sewers are?
- ramiro, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5If the connection goes through the sewer, the screen shot should say "Brownloading..."
- JAFFA, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Gaaah! I have to move yet again! 24Mbps isnt fast enough anymore!
- roodammy44, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6I'm getting a reliable 16MBps just over copper cable in london.
Where do you live, a remote island or something?
Very few downloads manage to max out my connection - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+4I believe they are called repeaters.
- ericcire, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Actually I didn't. Bravo, good sir.
- dsmx, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Yes those 1/2 inch diameter fibre optics take up a lot of space.
- anarchytv, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Rats love to chew on 100bt cable.
- dhdenny, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5It's all fun and games until granny downloads a trojan and becomes a member of a botnet and starts DOS'ing russian porn sites at 100mbps. I'm assuming upstream is capped significantly?
- mohamedmansour, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Yet again, in North America (Canada) we are struggling with 800kbit upload and 10mbit download ... It has been like 10 years since they upgraded from 240kbit to 800kbit upload. It is all for money ... as Nortel once said, the network we have is not even consumed. We could all get 100mbit to our household if they let us, but why would they do that? They can make more money to give us *****.
- MMilitia, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Nice, I'm moving to Bournemouth at the end of this month. I'll Definitely be keeping an eye on this. Any word on pricing?
- 3leggedHorse, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8 Copper cables suck. BE broadband have 24 meg available when I phoned them up they said the best I could get was 4meg, because I am 5KM from the exchange what a load of crap.
On another note if it pisses it down in Bournemouth they might have a problem with flooding because of the extra space that cable is taking up. - inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Teenage Mutant Ninja Broadband...traffic shaping in a half-shell :(
- maninalift, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Optic cable is _more_ lossy I think but can handle higher data density. You just need to add lots of [whatsit thingies] to clean up the signal and send it on. I say "just" but this is a major cost.
- Andreasvb, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3And some here in Sweden are going to get 1Gb soon. http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.160850 (In Swedish)
- bobbles, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Noooo! You're clogging the tubes!!
- Chris4, on 05/13/2008, -0/+524Mbps? You lucky bastard. I get 2Mbps.
- maninalift, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I think your right but maybe savings could still be made by laying sewer and cable together.
- hnsez, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3The Internet is a series of tubes
- hugepedlar, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I live in Bournemouth but I'm emigrating to Australia in a couple of months. I'm so ***** annoyed.
- toggo, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5Google were there first!
http://www.google.com/tisp/ - spudnic, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I've had reliable 20mbps in the UK for over a year now...
- pault107, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Are you mixing up your bytes with your bits? I remember when a friend of mine first got broadband many years ago, he was deeply disspointed when he realised that 512K didn't actually mean you can dowload at 512 Kilobytes per second.
- MrViklund, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I posted this to Digg 21 days ago. Almost a month. Well, not this post. But that there were plans to put fiber in the sewer ducts.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Fibre_could_be_laid_thro ... - tooloney, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2so would these be the poop tubes?
- ChayD, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3or "dropping the kids off at the pool"
- xwfilm, on 05/13/2008, -2/+4*****, that's fast.
- thomashauk, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Because important, beneficial, nationally important infrastructure should have no government aid...
Just like the roads, electricity, water, phone, gas, rail, lighting, television... etc networks don't
Oh wait - Featherlake, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2And?
- CMuffa, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2hello exactly!
- ccaazz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5i live in london too, within 3km of an exchange, and yet i cant get any higher than 1.5mbits speed (well, i couldnt until a month ago when i switched to be, and they upped my speed to about 4 mbits with adsl2 technology). I have no friends in london who can obtain speeds past the 1.5mbit speed - shows that our copper lines are *****!
don't be fooled anyone who doesnt live in the uk, our speeds are appaling, no one in reality gets above 1.5 mbits (at least in london) unless you live right next door to the telephone exchange.
so, to conclude, yes, as manialift says above me, a speed of 10mbits would be pretty incredible for the uk (unfortunately) - inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Simpsons did it
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