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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+69Could you put this in terms I can easily understand, perhaps in porn-per-hour or dvd's per minute?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58"Only" 5mbps up? That's a lot from where I come from..
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47I've been excited about fiber for quite some time now. It's unfortunate I'm stuck with Comcast 8mb/768k... I hope At&t has something planned for my area (Grand Rapids, MI) soon. I could saturate the hell out of a 50mbs fat tube... consequently, thats the only fat tube I plan on saturating...
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44"One problem............ only 5Mbps up :("
I would gladly take it over the 5Mb/384kb I have now. Although I would rather have a 25/25, or even 15/15. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37I'm digging you down out of sheer jealousy.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34People seem to be confused over megaBITS and megaBYTES. For the record, this is 6.25 MB/sec down and 640 KB/sec up.
....That's some mighty upload, there. - MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24I just moved to Los Angeles in Redondo Beach, and my roommates already had FiOS. I have nothing else to say besides it's absolutely sickening. I was fine with cable modem, but this is like I'm still on the work network when I VPN in.
I got 14888kb/s on the speedtest.net last try. We pay for the 15MBit connection... I'm pretty sure it could go a lot faster if we paid for the next option up. - tuxidomasx, on 10/22/2007, -1/+21cable companies offering internet already give it to consumers up the ass w/ crazy prices
good thing for you it's verizon. at least you wont be sucking Cox - SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I don't care if verizon killed your mother, if they offer you fiber YOU TAKE IT!!!
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Hey subby, its not MBPs its Mbps. There is a difference.
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19"Could you put this in terms I can easily understand, perhaps in porn-per-hour or dvd's per minute?"
How about LoC (Library of Congresses) per second, as long as we are talking arbitrary units of measure. - bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16and the best thing is, it only costs 0.002 cents per mbp!
- vawksel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Yes, but is it 50 mb/s, or is it .005 mb/s?... you never know with Verizon.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12How Swede it is.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11[quote]Charter told me in about a year i will have 1 gig line. [/quote]
Son, someone at Charter fed you a load of *****. - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Abused? I beg to differ. If they sell unlimited bandwidth, I'm using it.
And since you mentioned saturating the up, no *****, why do you think we want more up speed? - yuannerz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@tangent
digging you down for repeating a joke. - blackbelt88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm a FiOS subscriber right now and I can assure you that they deliver the speeds they promise.
- Daedalus17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Oh no! Not something that isn't controlled by the government?! What ever will we do?!
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I can't wait for my 1g/256k line.
- batmang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Never capitalize B, that means Bytes, lower case is bits...And for 90 dollars a month I'm good with 8Mbps
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@ Ninjaboy
Charter? As in Charter Communications? A 1 gig line? Where the hell did you hear this? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6No wonder Time-Warner just upped my downstream to 10Mbps. They're running scared.
Now how about not charging $90/month for HD and I'll consider not switching to FiOS the second it is available here? - GrizzlyAdams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I pay about $50 US per month here in Japan for 100Mb/s up and down B-Flets fiber service from NTT West. I don't know if that's been posted here on Digg before or not but I've had this service since October, 2003. They call it FTTH (fiber to the home) here and not FIOS. The fiber is wired into the house right up to the ONU. I'm really surprised when I see the slow state of broadband development back home in the states.
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Try pricing out a DS-3 sometime.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6impressive.
- neeyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh you'll be able to wait once you see the price.
Compared to places in Europe, Korea, and Japan, we in the USA still pay WAAAAAY more per mb down.
If S. Korea didn't have Mr. Dictator Cuuckoo Bananas next door, I'd more there in a ..... you know what I'll just stay put. - Chaos12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Many places in California (Mostly Sacramento) have fiber services that start at 10 up/down and are currently capping at 50 up/down. (10 is only $50/month)
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Um... fiber isn't half duplex ***** from comcast....
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@sockpuppets - I'm assuming the jealousy is because I live a 15 minute walk to the beach? :)
But hey, I needed something good to compensate for the cost of living! Normally when you take a promotion, you don't go from living alone to living with 2 dudes off of craigslist. But it's all working out so far... - ceralor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Am I the only one who saw the 's' making MBP plural, thinking they were giving away MacBook Pro's?
- cyberbeing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Surewest broadband has 10Mbps/10Mbps , 20Mbps/20Mbps, and 50Mbps/50Mbps plans for $49.95, $89.95, and $189.95 respectively with a bundle. You just have to move to an area its available in the greater Sacramento area.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"thats 13.37 minutes for a full 4.7gb dvd."
srsly? Thats 1337! - fjc8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, that's bandwidth per 6MHz channel. Cable companies will have to build out more capacity to be able to offer higher speeds to individual customers reliably.
The QAM256 modulation scheme used on many networks leads to increased latency. My ADSL connection is 15-17ms to Chicago Equinix and Virginia Equinix and 18-20ms to many NYC destinations. Cable, however, is more than that just to leave the cable company's internal routing (in 10/8). - beejay54, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tell me about it. Our studio runs on a Rogers cable connection and we pay through the nose to get 8mbps down and 1 mbps up. ($250 CDN) The up being what I care about most.
I've been doing a *lot* of research in this area and if your looking to run a server without killing your budget contact MCI Canada. Most Canadian carriers get their connections from MCI and just slap their nasty markup on it (Bell, Rogers, Cogeco, and MANY independent telcos too). That, plus Ted Rogers is a douchebag. :-) - chrillen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5We've had 100MBPs to home here in Sweden for a year and a half now.
- SillyDigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5As files become bigger 5MB will be nothing.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ARRGGGHHHH WHY WONT THIS COME TO UPSTATE NEW YORK!?!?!?!?!
Now that I have unleashe my frustration, I must state that Road Runner sucks. Paying for 8 Mbps down/768 Kbps up and I get about 4.5 - 5 Mbps down and 400 Kbps up. I would love to be able to single handedly take out a small server, but alas, I have road runner, and road runner isn't really all that fast. - ultrasonoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Some people talking about needing to convert all the wiring in your house to Fiber. Last I checked they were using CAT 5e for the actual distribution in the house for FIOS. The no use for fiber as distribution cable, copper can do whatever you'd need it to. There aren't even NIC cards that support anything above 10Gig ethernet which you can get with newer types of CAT 6. Not that I've seen. So if you can get FIOS don't be too afraid that you'll have to get costly fiber put everywhere in your home.
- dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd kill for 2mbps UP.
In Canada, even expensive business services only offer 512kbps UP. You can't get over a Mbit unless your made of money. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nope. Japan is up to 100/100, not 100/10.
- shank2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 I went from 1.5mb/s down 512mb/s up to 15mb/s down 2mb/s up FiOS and the difference in all types of internet useage is night and day. But you are right, not every site uses all the 15 down bandwith. But with file downloading I easily hit 2MB/second when I go to a site that does max it out. By the way my FiOS is 44$ per month.
- darkspire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If population density were really the only issue then why don't places like New York city have faster broadband connections? It's mainly differences in government support of these initiatives in other countries and the desire for the almighty buck. Americans can be charged much higher rates for broadband than many other places because they don't know any different and the new speeds are "blazing fast"
- Iroxorsju, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would be happy with 15 down and 15 up. Just gimme more upstream!
- Stephenishere, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12*****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sure, you may as well get something out of it for a change.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At this rate I'm probably going to have to rename my "Saturday Night 4-Hour Pornorama Block" to my "Saturday 8:04-8:12PM Pornfest".
- Kriz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Verizon...compete with Cablevision? not from where I'm sitting.
AT&T and Cablevision happily share the monopolization of pipes in my area. free market competition my pasty geek ass. - Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Well I have this service and it truly is awesome. I have the 30Mbit package, soon to be upgraded to 50Mbit. The 5Mbit up isnt that big of a deal. Means I can send my friends files that max out their cable connections before it maxes out my upload. The 30 Mbit down I have is great. It isn't all that much better using BT, but that is simply due to the POS router they give you. They automatically convert all of your copper in the house to fiber, making the phones run on fiber as well.
- SuperBTZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im stuck for another year with SBC (AT&T) DSL paying $50 a month for 3Mpbs/256-512up.
*tear*
Better than 56k I guess. -
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