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- vaguilera, on 10/10/2007, -3/+96"Anyway, what would you do with 100 megabits/second connection if you had one!"
Seed! - merdiesel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+84WTF does "per second life" mean?
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -1/+63"I use my 100 Mbps FiOS connection for typical web access (e-mail, news, etc), some online video, as well as for work (VPN access)."
What a waste. - vortex22222, on 10/10/2007, -4/+57She has porn downloading potential others can only dream of!
- sekhui, on 10/10/2007, -1/+52not all information from the internet is automatically written to your HDD...
your RAM should be fast enough to keep up with a 40Gbit connection. - Wade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43Perhaps some people connect many computers to the internet. It's the dawning of a new age!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -13/+51What is the bloody point of having a 40 gigabit connection if your hard drive can't even read that fast?
- spacedrabbit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28I would join the korean starcraft league
- jtbandes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27It means you're allowed to transfer 40 Gb for every second you're alive.
- darknite1979, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Of course the RIAA and MPAA wouldnt want you having that speed of broadband. It wouldnt surprise me if they had something to do with preventing high speed broadband access in the states.
- varino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Well, I can't say I agree with the article. I in fact live in Sweden and have had 100/100 full duplex for the last 4 years. For most of that period (~3.5 years) I've also been running Du Meter, keeping my logfiles intact.
Downloaded: 168.87 TB
Uploaded: 272.53 TB
Both directions: 441.40 TB
So, yeah, using up bw is not all that hard. - Seth024, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19why would you need a hard drive with a 40 gigabit connection?? a few gigs of RAM should be enough, it's not like you need to save that HD movie. You just download it again; should take only a few seconds
Edit:stupid comment system, I replied to the wrong person. - goodkidyo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17"Verizon employees testing this testing this experimental set-up" proofread your ***** articles!
/needs coffee. - Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Your RAM, yes. But how fast is your NIC? How fast is the connection between NIC and the chipset? At 40GiB/s, we run into a ton of bottlenecks before we even come close to meddling with the RAM.
- Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I wasn't a mistake, it was the remix.
- ashlvsya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15It's still 10MB upload which would bother me. Japan, Korea etc have 100MB full duplex...
- Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13This gentleman obviously hasn't been downloading HD video from Apple.com. When I visited my friend in BC, he had a 100Mb line, and the 1080 videos would stream immediately from the site without a hiccup. That, was a life changing experience. Even if there were only previews available, it was still amazing.
- faizal5k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12what if you have a small business with over 100 computers on the network? Then this connection would be awesome.
- yevkasem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11talk about a boring article.
- bzkt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12100Mbps is the new standard in Sweden when they offer fiber connections.
- Ibox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Article says 10Mbps... you should read it sometime. :)
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Now look at scandinavia: lower density than the US, always at the forefront of ICT, always at the top of the lists.
Why? Because they recognise that low density *drives* constant communications upgrades, rather than hinders them: the farther apart people are, the greater the need to connect them together. With that lesson in hand, the cost-benefit analysis is easy -- it may cost a bundle to connect all these scattered people, but the return on that investment is huge, and it pays for itself in the long run. - shandar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Well, Im quite sure you do have the infrastructure for that (just look at JANET), it's just that UK ISPs seem be true asses. I moved from Sweden to the UK last year and left a 100mbit connection behind me only to get to the UK where 8mbit is considered to be blazing fast. I'm now on a 24mbit down 1.3mbit (!!!!!!!!!) up and paying through my nose for it. On top of the ridiculous upload speed most British ISPs now use traffic shaping to limit and/or block torrents, so basically Im paying a load of money for a connection that is about as (in some cases even less!) useful as the 3.6Mbit HSDPA connection on my mobile. Worst part is that no one seems to care, "this is perfectly normal", I've even talked to people in the UK that are proud of their lousy connections.
Anyhow, whether 100mbit changes your internet experience or not, just think about this. With RapidShare, Usenet, Direct Connect or any service which lets you maximise your internet connection it makes a huge difference. The internet has turned into your own personal media server ("hmm... what movie do I want to watch now? hm.. how about the Bourne Supremacy at 720p HD? Yes... Yes that sounds good. *click* *movie starts playing*").
On demand anyone? - bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Downloading?
Uploading! Where do you think all those hot granny vids come from? - cliffzdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Apparently these guys' boxen have terrabit NICs.
- kuyman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Where do you live?
- rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I would set up a Tor node: http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-server.html.en
- Notsafetoeat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9On the other hand we are killing kittens for electricity? oh my god
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Not really no. Games only require a (fairly low) baseline of bandwidth -- the rest is up to routing distance (aka ping), and that doesn't change no matter how fat your pipe is.
- jcims, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Tha'ts because he has to work for a living.
- theodenking, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7At least the US has the excuse of being megabig compared to Japan and Sweden. What about Britain, we're tiny and we still haven't got the infrastructure to break into those kind of speeds.
- Konformitee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What are you, writing to us from 1997 on your Windows95 machine connected to your 400Kbps cable modem connection? Don't worry man, in a few years Windows 2000 will be out and it offers a radically more stable kernel than Windows 95 or Windows 98 did.... oh did I mention Windows98? Don't even bother with Windows ME though.
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I think if America would start using higher speeds, it would benefit the world, because then Web Servers would start catering to faster connections more often.
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5RAID, baby!
- jcims, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm sure that bitching and moaning is part of the process that will lead to improved broadband connectivity in the US. It even hits close to home, as i'm building a house in an area with nothing more than dial-up through a craphole CO, but man am i tired of this story. I'm probably going to be pulling a T1 or point-to-point wireless and start a small WiMax ISP to help cover the costs...you just do what you have to do.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Google Earth would be amazing.
- Rob223, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I had to re-read that 3 times till I saw the mistake.
A bird in the
the bush. - MasterChi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Please tell me that "168 TB downloaded" is in 3.5 years because if it is in only one month I am moving to Sweden immediately, and you would hate to have me as a neighbor :D
- diggboy101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5you must not be liked on bittorrent
- rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Then organize some sort of long-distance wifi link using old satellite dishes and Linksys WAPs running DD-WRT.
- brakezone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You guys have no understanding of warp drive infrastructure and subspace inverter field harmonics
- gta3mobster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Verizon and their FiOS are experiencing troubles in deployment. States have agreements with cable/telephone companies and they're stubborn about letting Verizon lay their fiber line.
Regardless, once DOCSIS 3.0 starts getting implemented everyone should be able to get up to 100 mb/s down. I just can't wait until we can start subscribing to 100 mb/s upstream. - vick04, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You could do all of that with a 5/5 plan. Now im starting to see why verizon picked him to test it. I bet his bw useage for the month was like 15gigs.
- fanclerks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Let me just say this for all the other diggers out there. I hate you.
- SirZRX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41)Hire 100Mbps Conection
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4)Profit - Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It is true that the US had some big problems to overcome in upgrading their internet infrastructure, but that shoudl have been covered in the 120 billion dollar government handout. In the past the US set high standards for itself by building intercontinental railroad, wiring every rural house for electricity and phone service. It is not time to set the same high bar for internet access. Dialup has become the new telegraph, 36.6 and 28.8kbit in a world were 100mbit is becoming the standard?
- SomeImagination, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5what to do with a 100mbit connection? Join a private bittorrent site, turn on rss, leech and seed at 11MB/s
- MightyNe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Never again will you be kicked from torrent sites for bad ratios, hurrah!
- mirzmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Cliffz: That hardly explains the reason why even dense urban centers within the US have dismal internet connections that are still far more expensive than the connections offered in Japan/France.
- billy1380, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4well if that is what the issue is then the UK has no excuse... but the truth is we are still struggling!
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