Hong Kong to offer 1gbps residential service!!!

[Looney]

http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/lastmilearticle.asp?ID=14545

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.

HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent's ADSL service.

HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company's Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.

Got that from DSLreports... but that's just unreal if this is true. They could literally get true on-demand media with these kind of speeds.

 

[Minimite11]

Looks like im moving to Hong Kong ^_^

 

[xsilver]

no mention of a download cap? it would be funny if it was like 500mb /month....... and if it was unlimited, then you'd need a couple of terrabytes cause that hdd is going to fill up damn fast!

 

[imported_Kensai]

Nice.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Wow ... I'm sure I'd get in trouble for running an FTP with that big of a pipe ... hah.

 

[sandorski]

Whoa!

I read this thread, killed the Tab, and began reading another thread when I started thinking. I got 150Kbps, then thought M, G...schnikey!!!!! That seems like quite the boost.

 

[tiap]

That's what I hear Bellsouth has on the boards for the next few years. Tv over phone lines and everything els that can use the big pipe. Supposedly they are testing it now. They want to cut into cable badly.

 

[SonicIce]

i wonder how many years before that speed is cheap enough for average people

 

[tiap]

It might be reasonable. Bellsouth is pushing complete packages which right now include land line, dsl, directtv and cellphone. Mine works out to having 3.0 dsl for free vs separate pricing by any competition. They are really going after Comcast

 

[CalvinHobbs]

and i'm stuck with 128kbps

 

[Duvie]

I have 3Mb/s comcast now...It may be 4 now, but I only have seen 2Mb/s at best when downloading some mp3s...I usually never see more then 200-300Kb/s when downloading AVI files of CSI episodes....

I would love to just get the 3-4Mb/s all the time...

 

[AbAbber2k]

Well, Verizon is apparently starting to offer 30Mbps, but I think the states are still a ways off from anything like this. We're too busy sucking the aging tech for all the money we can.

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: Looney
http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/lastmilearticle.asp?ID=14545

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.

HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent's ADSL service.

HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company's Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.

Got that from DSLreports... but that's just unreal if this is true. They could literally get true on-demand media with these kind of speeds.

The $50 a month I'm spending for 4Mb Comcast cable seems like a rip-off. If Hong Kong can afford to price 1Gb for $215 a month, the I should be getting 4Mb for $5 a month.

 

[shortylickens]

Did anyone else notice they get 10meg for $16 a month?!?
Thats kind of disheartening.

Then I thought: On the web, I can only get 3Mb/s from bandwidth testing sites. Most commercial websites cap their uploads way below MY bandwidth.
Hell, some sites still only upload to me as if I were on dial-up or slow dsl.

So, (aside from file-sharing and maybe games), is 1Gb/s really so hot?

 

[JackBurton]

Damn, Verizon is offering 30Mbps down/5Mbps up for $199 and I thought THAT was a great deal.

 

[MrControversial]

If you play alot of games online, then this is great especially for Xbox Live where you can host tons of games.

 

[Anubis]

thats insane, and IMO pointless

id still like some company in the US to give me a 10/10 line for a decent price

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats insane, and IMO pointless

id still like some company in the US to give me a 10/10 line for a decent price

Only pointless to people with no vision.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats insane, and IMO pointless

id still like some company in the US to give me a 10/10 line for a decent price

Only pointless to people with no vision.

i can count on 1 hand the number of websites that can serve fast enough to utilize that

itll help onli gaming but only to a point

the only real benefit is in file transfers, of large data, which will just speed up piracy

 

[ponyo]

US is just too darn big and spread out. Plus all that investment in old school infrastructure. Most of these Asian countries like Korea and Japan are tiny and crazy density packed. Plus they've new infrastructure and bypassed lot of the old tech since they had to build from scratch. US will always be second rate country when it comes to wireless and internet connection.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: tiap
That's what I hear Bellsouth has on the boards for the next few years. Tv over phone lines and everything els that can use the big pipe. Supposedly they are testing it now. They want to cut into cable badly.

Thats correct. SBC sees a shrinking telephone market, and wants to use its current capital in new ways to offset its market losses.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Duvie
I have 3Mb/s comcast now...It may be 4 now, but I only have seen 2Mb/s at best when downloading some mp3s...I usually never see more then 200-300Kb/s when downloading AVI files of CSI episodes....

I would love to just get the 3-4Mb/s all the time...

I get 4mbits from COX, pretty consistant all the time..

Any site that can offer the bandwidth, i get the full 500K.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats insane, and IMO pointless

id still like some company in the US to give me a 10/10 line for a decent price

Only pointless to people with no vision.

i can count on 1 hand the number of websites that can serve fast enough to utilize that

itll help onli gaming but only to a point

the only real benefit is in file transfers, of large data, which will just speed up piracy

But if residential areas have it, obviously business will as well. So it should speed everything up.

 

[JackBurton]

This does bring up an interesting question. What freakin' router has a gigbit WAN port?

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
This does bring up an interesting question. What freakin' router has a gigbit WAN port?

gigabit routers don't have gigabit WAN ports?