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Here in London we can get 24mbps broadband :D
But in London-Shoreditch you can get 2gbps! (Pilot program)
I was spoken last year with friend from South Korea about internet and he told that in his country 2mbps broadband is for reciving E-MAILS!!
Normal broadband was 100mbps or 1gbps! :rolleyes:
Wonder what's the point of this, no disc can write data this fast. Afaik even the fastest drives are only like 750mbit/s. BTW, does that really mean 2.5GB/s? Shouldn't it be like 2.5GBit/s?
same here :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Popo
welcome to XS :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by Galactic
it says Gb/s. lowercase b = bit, uppercase = byte. No hard drive can write a gigabyte in one second so that would make no sense at all. 2,5 gigabit per second, as in 300+ megabytes per second. Wait, apart from uberSCSI, I dont even know harddrives that can read/write that fast? Wait, I've 'only' got a gbit LAN onboard. Is there any higher anyways? So whats the point?
got 100mbit/s at the moment but next month or so it will be 1gbit/s. (university in germany)
but there is no sense for it.
first : even the 13,x mb from 100mbit you are never able to use. Fastest i ever got was like 8mb/s.
second : nearly EVERY port is blocked, so bye bye online games, file sharing, what ever, just pure surfing, ftp and network.
so it's pretty crap. I would love to have 1Mbit connection but all ports open. It's MUCH better.
Yep, by far the most impressive is the upload.Quote:
Originally Posted by NapalmV5
The reason we aren't seeing widespread adoption of fibre is the existing copper infrastructure. You can't replace it easily. In a greenfield site its easy but the carriers don't want to risk the investment. In a built up area you have to go in and replace a huge amount of copper wire and with all the various regulations about digging up roads etc it becomes a lot more trouble than just the material cost.
There are several options:
1) You agressivly persue replacing the existing network. Expensive and difficult but as we can see it is happening in major cities (London and Paris particuarly)
2) You take the fibre to the area but then change to copper to get to the houses. Its basically a PON approach and works by shortening the copper loops. Cheaper and gives you more bandwidth, less signal degradation and lower latencies.
3) You bring a big fibre bundle with lots of bandwidth to each group of houses and then split it off to the individual houses. You can use whatever technology that you want in that last section. Its a middle ground between the two other methods.
Most big businesses are already geting fitted out with fibre over instead of DSL or cable now anyway but it is the residential areas that are lacking bhind a lot. In Europe that is mainly DSL while is USA it is more even with the majority using cable. PON is widespread in Japan. MOst are still on copper so the new bonded copper tech is becomming more attractive to DSL providers than replacing it with expensive fibre.
Whatever the way it is delivered everything is converging to carrier ethernet, which provides a much higher QoS than anything else out at the moment. Then again the current Sonnet SDH is ancient so thats not surprising.
Sorry for the poor grammer. I haven't had coffee yet :D
Thanks :) I actually have registered about a week ago but my account wasn't activated until now.Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
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Originally Posted by HiJon89
not really.
there are also alot of game servers in Germany, Netherlands france etc way more then 10%.
Companys that host game servers are aware that alot of their customers live in Europe and theyd know that id would b bad busines trying to sell them US based servers.
i live in the netherlands and on US based servers i get a ping between 80 and 100 if im unlucky 150.
If you get a ping of 250 it just means ur going threw a load of bad hops.
@NapalmV5
85 dollars for Internet Tv and phone is a normal price tbh.
overhere for that cash i get TV, Digital TV with movie channels (and pr0n), phone and Internet (1Megabyte down 130KB up).
it all goes threw 1 cable so that lowers the price considerebly.
the thing that makes it hard to believe is the speed of the connection.
But on the otherhand pumping a signal threw fiberglass all the way is cheaper then threw coax.
Damn the are areas here that got Fiberglass into the house got 10Megabit down and up and are atm testing 100megabit down will be ages tho till its widespread.
My internet/Tv/Phone also goes threw a fiberglass line but some 20 meters from my home it goes over into a Cable line.
The houses here r some 100 years old the expensive bit is laying the actual fibre into the house so i wonder if the people that use this connection in Paris have ot pay for the hook up or if it gets sponsered.
the ones that will have a problem when such speeds start to be normal are companies that host servers etc.
If them speeds are 24/7 and there is no bandwith limitation u could easily host ur own server etc.
imagine how many people are going to run home-based websites. i see a decline in the web server business in europe. if i could get my upload above 100KBps i would be very happy.
and have you guys heard about the speed booster thing comcast is using? i've reached burst speeds up to 15Mbps with my 8meg connection.
ya dunno if its the same but my provider makes ur upload 4x as fast for 4.95 extra a month and u can switch it of whenever u want.Quote:
Originally Posted by madman2233
My upload i get with them is 130KB stil thinking if having it 4x as high is worth it.
But how much does this speedboost cost with ur provider?
LOL.. yeh for u guys.. but even u r not getting 2.4Gb/1.2Gb for dat price.. those lucky french..Quote:
Originally Posted by Starscream
till last week for a year ive been paying $120+/month just for internet (8Mb cable + 5Mb dsl)
yeh, on boost.. up to 4-5MB/s transfer other times 2-3MB/s boost.. but i dont have the comcast 8Mb anymore.. last week they decided to put a filter on the cable so no more free basic cable tv for me.. so i decided to put a filter on their service.. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by madman2233
I'm interested in seeing how the newer versions of DSL such as ADSL2+ pan out.
^ also verizon fios.. they could offer 100Mb easy..
I live in France in a village of 2000 people and I have 18M/1M !
cool
Like everything in the world, it's money and greed. The US multimedia companies want it all. They allow us to use 1 percent of the available network while keeping the remaining 99% for their own use. Three or four years ago 2 US Congressmen introduced a bill to mandate a 100mbit network be available to all US homes. What happenned? The lobbiests for the companies gave a ton of $$ to the people running against them in their next election. BOTH those guys are now gone..Sort of tells you who really runs things.
18M/1M @ village?!?!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrodix
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Starscream
the speed boost is free. they are testing it out in certain areas at first, then they are going to make it available to all of their customers.
its called PowerBoost:
http://www.comcast.com/powerboost/
OMFG, why is the US so behind? Guess I'll be moving to EU!
At 2.5Gb/s it is even starting to be RAM limmited (in DDR333 (single channel)systems and below) :o
10Gb Ethernet is getting close to being limmited by the CPU's, or at least the Northbridges, and to get the full 10Gb/s, you'll need about 20 PCI-E lanes, PCI-X 133: go home ("only" 8.5Gb/s). :D
In my region of Denmark, the power company are digging fiber optic cables down through out my city, and the first buildings have been connected.
When connected, you'll be offered a 10/10 Mb/s for approx. 85$ (US).
here in holland it doesnt really matter where u live. im in a village with a 22m/2m connection.
When we are all on carrier ethernet fibre we won't be getting confused about dl/ul speeds. Its symmetrical unlike copper DSL or cable.
ya but thats mostly cause back in the day when phone and cable companys were owned by the goverment they invested lots of cash in newer cables and when they got privitised they had the new cables already in the ground in some places.Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
i also live in a small town but have good speeds.
@Cobalt
am not shure but the theoreticle max speed of DSl2+ is between 30 and 40megabit a sec.
They have 1 city over 1million people, and Fiber Optics is not cost competitive over cable atm. How do we know this isn't in the rich upscale Paris area?Quote:
Originally Posted by WesM63
Dallas has had Fiber Optics for 2-3 years now. Verizon FIOS for residential, it d/ls at 300MB/s = 2.5gb/s. It isn't subsidzied so it is alot more pricey than $80.
Read the Slashdot Comments, they are pretty good.