Gamers in Paris enjoy 2.5Gb/s Internet.

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07-26-2006, 07:40 PM
Shpoon

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Originally Posted by Mr. Popo

Nah, lots of people are upgrading to 5MBit/s.

"Upgrading" my ISP "started" doign that 2 years ago, apparently my area hasn't been touched yet.
07-26-2006, 07:51 PM
WesM63

You guys know that the US is very far behind in technilogical devlopment compared to eastern countries right? The US is where Japan was in the 80's IIRC.
07-26-2006, 07:57 PM
Kobalt

How is that possible...fast network cards are 1gigabit...thats slower than the internet connection in france!?
07-26-2006, 08:06 PM
Mr. Popo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

How is that possible...fast network cards are 1gigabit...thats slower than the internet connection in france!?

Fibers? :D
07-26-2006, 08:07 PM
ex2cib

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Originally Posted by Kobalt

How is that possible...fast network cards are 1gigabit...thats slower than the internet connection in france!?

i wondered that myself

did see a fiber PCI card, dont know how that works though (with PCI i mean)

also, what happens when (IF) you were to download at max speed. that would be about 312MB/s. no telling how many drives in raid to keep up with all that data. you would have to have plenty of memory to maybe store the data before it was written to the HD, then you have to have a crazy CPU to be able to process all that data coming in.

i wonder where you go to figure out if the ISP isn't giving you your full speed?:p:
07-26-2006, 08:09 PM
Kobalt

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Originally Posted by Mr. Popo

Fibers? :D

yea the speed of light is pretty fast ;). but jeeze...thats crazy. I could download every version of windows in like 30 seconds. All legal copies of course :D. 2.5Gb/s = around 300mb/s :slobber:. Thats a winxp disc in 2 seconds.
07-26-2006, 08:11 PM
rcofell

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

How is that possible...fast network cards are 1gigabit...thats slower than the internet connection in france!?

I'd say the network card would be the bottleneck then, but I'd say maxing the connection wouldn't happen that often as overhead + the connection on the other side would come into play. Maybe this will spur a faster adoption of 10gigE :D

I suppose a big reason why the US is taking so long to get faster lines(besides the telecomm companies being greedy and lazy :( ) is because the shear size of the country, if you look at japan they are far more compact.
07-26-2006, 08:12 PM
theteamaqua

only 70 euros ...

i pay 60 bux for cable, 30 for 3mb DSL, and prolly around 30 bux for phone
07-26-2006, 08:13 PM
Mr. Popo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

yea the speed of light is pretty fast ;). but jeeze...thats crazy. I could download every version of windows in like 30 seconds. All legal copies of course :D. 2.5Gb/s = around 300mb/s :slobber:. Thats a winxp disc in 2 seconds.

Only need to find a server that support it! :D
07-26-2006, 08:13 PM
Charloz24

Wow awesome speed.....:eek:

But hey you all guys stop complaining right now! My ONLY possible internet connection here is 31.6Kbps max:cussing:

And no I will not pay 1000$+ of equipment for internet by satellite + 100$/month.
07-26-2006, 08:20 PM
Kobalt

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Originally Posted by Charloz24

Wow awesome speed.....:eek:

But hey you all guys stop complaining right now! My ONLY possible internet connection here is 31.6Kbps max:cussing:

And no I will not pay 1000$+ of equipment for internet by satellite + 100$/month.

Do you live in an Igloo or something? Jeeze...
07-26-2006, 08:21 PM
rcofell

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Originally Posted by ex2cib

did see a fiber PCI card, dont know how that works though (with PCI i mean)

Most gigfiber cards are pci-x, but they're backwards compatible with normal pci. Except then the bus's max bandwidth(133MB/S theoretical) is about the same as the gig link(125MB/S theoretical), so there'd be a hit of course, which could be pretty bad if you're also running a hard disk controller on the same bus :-/

Reminds me of how I keep putting off to adding the fiber card to my fileserver...
07-26-2006, 08:22 PM
Mr. Popo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

Do you live in an Igloo or something? Jeeze...

It's called "Canada"... :slap:
Haha, joking! :D
07-26-2006, 08:40 PM
Kobalt

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Popo

It's called "Canada"... :slap:
Haha, joking! :D

lol...:ROTF:
07-26-2006, 08:45 PM
Charloz24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

Do you live in an Igloo or something? Jeeze...

:lol2:

Nope but I'm living 12km of the nearest village :(

Just hope wireless internet will spread enought to reach my zone.
07-26-2006, 08:46 PM
Reznik Akime

And I hope this will pressure the US to get some decent speeds.

Note how I say hope.. because a man can dream, by crikey.
07-26-2006, 09:03 PM
JuanFlaiter

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

only 70 euros ...

i pay 60 bux for cable, 30 for 3mb DSL, and prolly around 30 bux for phone

I pay 50 bucks for Cable Inet (256Mbit :mad: ) and Cable TV. TG my neighboor has 2Mbit and doesn´t encrypt his wireless connection :sofa:
07-26-2006, 09:04 PM
arisythila

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Originally Posted by NapalmV5

wat isp?

Called WaveBroadband.

~Mike
07-26-2006, 09:07 PM
[XC] Lead Head

Quote:

Originally Posted by JuanFlaiter

I pay 50 bucks for Cable Inet (256Mbit :mad: ) and Cable TV. TG my neighboor has 2Mbit and doesn´t encrypt his wireless connection :sofa:

why exactly are you mad about 256Mbit:p:
07-26-2006, 09:09 PM
arisythila

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcofell

I'd say the network card would be the bottleneck then, but I'd say maxing the connection wouldn't happen that often as overhead + the connection on the other side would come into play. Maybe this will spur a faster adoption of 10gigE :D

I suppose a big reason why the US is taking so long to get faster lines(besides the telecomm companies being greedy and lazy :( ) is because the shear size of the country, if you look at japan they are far more compact.

I think your hard drives would be the bottle neck, not the internet connection, with my 10mb/sec connection, my download speeds are in the 1.5 mb/sec range, and you can hear the hard drives crunching. hehe

Big reason US takes so long, because we are lazy pretty much sums it up. Why do hard work when you dont have to? Your still going to buy your cable internet, or DSL, regardless...

~Mike
07-26-2006, 09:39 PM
[LCN]Knowledge

OMG,, 80 bucks is what i pay for ADSL2+ 8Mbits, cable, and phone, how in the hell could they have sooo cheapy prices for fiber?? maybe they got aliens there in France :p:
07-26-2006, 10:11 PM
NapalmV5

Quote:

Originally Posted by arisythila

Called WaveBroadband.

~Mike

tnx! 2 bad dey don have it in my area..
07-26-2006, 10:33 PM
biohead

lol just got a 22mb down / 2mb up connection doing ±2,15 mb/s down and upload peaks at ±280kb/s. lightning fast compared to my previous 6mb/1mb connection, but jeeze ... internet in GIGAbits per second? That's a new one. Makes my internet looks like nothing. And only at €70,-? Wuttuf? My new connection costs €85,-/mo alone.
07-26-2006, 10:43 PM
TyroPyro

Crazy... government subsidized fiber infrastructure?
07-26-2006, 11:34 PM
Rovtar

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Originally Posted by Kunaak

just imagine how much :banana::banana::banana::banana: you can download everyday with that, haha... just kidding.

I have 3 meg internet.
funny, I feel like compared to the rest of the world, this is ancient.
but I can't even tell the difference between 1 meg, and 3 meg internet...

yea but need very fast disc to write this stuff so fast

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