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- Vegabondsx, on 04/10/2008, -3/+176Yes
- NateDog, on 04/10/2008, -1/+119It's like money, isn't it? You can never have enough money and you can never have enough bandwidth. If you make 10x the money, you suddenly find yourself spending 10x as much. If super highspeed connections were available, then you'd see a lot more super-bandwidth online apps and services ... it never ends! Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing ... just the way it is.
- breckinshire, on 04/10/2008, -10/+99Yes.
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 04/10/2008, -6/+89TV companies such as NBC are putting their shows online. Many are going hi-def. As cable TV dies, everything is being moved to the internet. And consumers want high-def. So the fact of the matter is that yes, we do need to upgrade our infrastructure. Doing so will also allow people to continue using the peer to peer services, which many startups rely on as they cannot afford big servers. (Thus, we can have network neutrality without slowing down our networks.) While 4Gb/week is way more than enough for me to surf, I am constantly torrenting 4 or 5 GB linux distributions, among many other open source files, etc. I don't want to have a quota of downloads, thats like a government regulation on how many books I can read each week.
IMO: We need a new government that understands these liberties and is willing to protect them. - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -9/+70If you're constantly torrenting 4 or 5 gig linux distributions, then one of two things is the case:
1. you're lying, and its pr0n and warez
2. you need to ***** pick one already - darkism, on 04/10/2008, -3/+58Upstream, yes.
- serif69, on 04/10/2008, -2/+48When I had 14.4k, I thought it was fast enough. Then I tried 28.8k. Then I had 28.8k, I thought it was fast enough. Then I tried 56k. Then I had 56k, I thought it was fast enough. Then I tried ISDN. Then I had ISDN, I thought it was fast enough. Then I tried DSL...
As long as something exists that is faster, I will feel as if my current connection is too slow. - liljay2k, on 04/10/2008, -8/+44but if the internet is slower, u will be spending more time online waitin for ur pages 2 load
- NathanielJ, on 04/10/2008, -2/+34"Broadband was instrumental to the success of Google, Amazon, eBay, YouTube and all other graphics- and video-rich Web services we now take for granted,"
I'm sorry, in what world was the success of Google dependent in any way on broadband? A large reason for Google's success as a search engine back then was the fact that it was extremely minimalist, so dial-up users were able to use it quickly and easily. - supermanred, on 04/10/2008, -2/+31Grandpa, get off the computer.
Now, for the rest of us with decent computers, YES we want faster internet. I want HDTV through iTunes and torrent stites, and I want it NOW! It's nice to be able to buy a show on iTunes and start watching it 2 seconds later, but with faster internet all around that would be 1080P starting 10 seconds later.
Same for everything else, even games would be less "laggy" and could include physics information and such...it would make online gaming a lot more robust than it is now. - santaliqueur, on 04/10/2008, -5/+30Is anything beyond basic food and shelter really *needed*?
Our broadband may be relatively fast now, but yes, we need it faster. - dafragsta, on 04/10/2008, -2/+26The moral police thank you for your donation of rhetoric that would be imposed on those who believe differently.
- eggsovereasy, on 04/10/2008, -5/+28Yes
- FlipSpiceland, on 04/10/2008, -0/+22Dugg for the period.
- mark076h, on 04/10/2008, -2/+23as long as i continue to battle to keep my share ratio on bittorrent above 1.0 for private trackers than the answer is YES!
- Terminaltor, on 04/10/2008, -1/+22The Whole world is building faster more efficient networks and our nation's leading business newspaper is still asking the question "Do we need faster internet ?" Just the fact that they're asking this question put them way behind the curve....and for some weird reason I'm thinking about Ted Stevens now. Our leaders are failing us
- LunaticFringe, on 04/10/2008, -2/+22We need to fully overhaul our infrastructure.
- insllvn, on 04/10/2008, -0/+20"640K should be enough for anybody!"
I don't know what we will think of to do with all this new bandwidth, but I know someone will think of a use. No one envisioned you tube, bit torrent, Google Maps, Skype, video chat, etc when we had 56k modems, but give us the bandwidth and we will use it. - Disease, on 04/10/2008, -0/+17You've clearly never had to download a Lost episode in 720p before a big date.
- ezran, on 04/10/2008, -0/+17Maslow's Thesis on human basic needs:
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Social expression
4. Internet connection - tonyscha, on 04/10/2008, -1/+18Spend more time with your family?and your the first post on this topic.
- NathanielJ, on 04/10/2008, -2/+18i feel Random capitalization Is Fun
- springo, on 04/10/2008, -0/+15The time it took him to write it is actually what prevented him from coming first.
- Barbarino, on 04/10/2008, -3/+18"as cable tv dies" Um Cable tv is not dying... People are not hooking their new HD tvs to the internet any time soon... People on digg need to get out more often..
- jp12380, on 04/10/2008, -1/+16How about offer us connection speeds that Asia is getting at reasonable prices like them, vs 150 a month for 50 mbps when they are getting 100 mbps for at least half the price.
- CrazedLeper, on 04/10/2008, -1/+15Because no idea or invention was ever born of satisfaction.
- Owned1Up, on 04/10/2008, -1/+15Depends how much you are going to charge me for it...
- andrew522, on 04/10/2008, -1/+15I wholeheartedly agree. *****, I have 15 megabits downstream, but only 768 kilobits upstream.
- cyclades, on 04/10/2008, -0/+14To question whether it's needed is like reading those old magazines where Bill Gates et all questioned whether faster CPUs were needed and saying that 128k memory was all you were ever going to need.
Anyone betting against faster speeds is sinking their company down the road and should be fired now. - FlipSpiceland, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13Buried for admitting defeat.
- wellyuk, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13All my family Live at least 5000 miles from me. With faster internet Access at home, which is where I keep in touch With my family, I'd be able to speak to them And see them with higher Quality audio and video.
You didn't think your Comment through very well, Did you? - walkingdogs, on 04/10/2008, -3/+15YES!!!! There cant be too much bandwidth.
- fkr3, on 04/10/2008, -0/+11No this is digg... he would have meant cable tv was dying because he watches tv on his laptop, and also old media is dead because he reads blogs instead of newspapers.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+11Either increase the speed, or stop making new porn until I catch up.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 04/10/2008, -1/+11Personally I need shelter, electricity, internet, food, beer in that order. Any disruption in my needs will be noted and frowned upon.
- SniperGX1, on 04/10/2008, -1/+11The Internet is more than email, IM, and HTTP pages. Uploading/downloading video, audio, and software. Automatic updates for every damn thing in ur house which seem to have larger updates every time one is needed. Videogames with an online component. Purchasing digital goods online. Streaming online goods. Running simple servers for remote management of your desktop and whatever other devices you have, home hosted web services. And all this with more users sharing a connection than ever before. In america we don't have the luxury of a large bandwidth connection. We have medium bandwidth at best, not to mention services like concast are half duplex. Once you try out a real Internet connection you will understand what all the fuss is about.
- tj111, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10True, but money buys a waverunner. And have you ever tried to frown on a waverunner?
- locojones, on 04/10/2008, -2/+10Steve Jobs will give you HDTV through iTunes when he decides that it's something that you should want. Then he'll spend millions on hip looking commercials so that you too can decide that you just have to have it.
- feliks2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8That's definately far from the only problem with Comcast.
- kreatre2007, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8Internet service in this country needs to be a lot faster if we are to ever truly transition television onto the Internet. I have a decent connection through AT&T U-Verse but, most of the bandwidth is going to the TV and only 10Mbps is going to my internet connection. They can do better than that. They just don't want to. Instead, internet service providers jack up prices and give us slower connections than are found in countries like Japan and in Europe.
- NathanielJ, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8you Like random capitalization Too?
- lotrtrotk, on 04/10/2008, -1/+8If we can get to a point where I can get consistent bandwidth to reliably stream HD content over the net.... then I will be content.
Perhaps x2 or x3 so it can be done on multiple devices at once. - andrew522, on 04/10/2008, -1/+8Yeah. thats because a T1 is defined by its speed, unlike a cable modem. I think (I might be slightly wrong) that a T1 is 1.544 megabits per second. you can have fractionals, and bondeds, but a T1 is still a local-loop connection to the telco. T1's are also available anywhere there is a phoneline, because it isn't reliant on different short transmission frequencies like DSL is.
It is also because that is dedicated bandwidth, not shared, like most residential connections nowadays. A cable company might have several gigabit connections, and then just split it to the customers by limiting bandwidth on the Customer Premise Equipment. In other words, I could "uncap" my modem and get like 30meg, because all that speed is piped through my neighborhood (I have 15meg btw). You cannnot "uncap" a T1 or a DS3 because the connection is not split before the telco.
hope I didn't confuse anyone - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+7Yes of course, but, once we get faster internet we will end up with HD flash Ads, and etc garbage to slow it down.
- supermanred, on 04/10/2008, -3/+9Yeah, we should go back to the days when you had to walk 3 hours to the local store and stored all our meat in blocks of salt because we had no fridges.
Get off the internet, Grandma! - Cabal, on 04/10/2008, -1/+7or if you don't want to be a leech
- Purkake, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Here in Estonia I get 12Mb internet along with digital television for like $40 a month. Plus I got a free router when I joined.
- locojones, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Then you need to put the controller down and learn the difference between bandwidth and latency.
- nydwarf, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6I remember starting out with a 300 Baud modem and I thought that was way too slow. Until I got a broadband connection I have always thought the speeds were too slow. If the big internet companies don't think people want more speed they are wrong.
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