when will the promise of broadband become a reality?

[tjdavis1138]

I downloaded the Mafia demo yesterday in about 13 minutes and it's a 230mb file. That's reason enough for me to have it.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

In the old day, before internet, modem dial-up to BBS for information, warez (application program was small), porn photos and movie, bulletin board, BBS mail.

No difference today with broadband for information, warez (application program becomes larger and larger), porn photos and movie (higher quality and movie with sound - so becomes larger and larger), forum instead of bulletin board (everybody has an icon picture or real photo - need more bandwidth to download), e-mail instead of BBS mail.

Broadband is a reality long time ago.
Broadband is just a generic term for higher bandwidth connection comparing to modem dial-up.
There always has higher bandwidth connection method at anytime, just not cheap enough for the general public.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: imtim83
Smp why would you want to download stuff out in the Sun for so long? The Sun can give you skin cancer.

The what?


I also like the fact that with broadband I can download a Linux distribution in maybe a day, instead of the week or two with dialup. Plus, we only have one phoneline here. Funny thing about that - we could have bought another phone line, and the cost of that plus the dialup service, would equal what we're now paying for cable internet service. So we have freed up the phonelines, and the service is considerably faster than dialup, all for about the same price as the second phoneline deal. Works for me.

Why broadband? Faster content access - downloading the 2000petabytes of updates from Microsoft, Symantec, etc, can now be done in about 20 minutes, instead of several hours. If I want an 800KB file, I download it in seconds, not a few minutes. It was suggested to just download the file in the background while browsing other websites. Problem with that is, the download takes even longer, plus the websites also load much slower. Timeouts also occur more often when this is done. I very much like broadband; of course, where bandwidth is concerned, more is always better. A 56k connection feels very sluggish and unresponsive.

 

[WyteWatt]

Jeff7 it does not take maybe about a day to download a Linux distribution on a high speed internet connection. Heck OOL can download 3 full cd linux distribution in 45 mins or less.

 

[CrazySaint]

Originally posted by: imtim83
Jeff7 it does not take maybe about a day to download a Linux distribution on a high speed internet connection. Heck OOL can download 3 full cd linux distribution in 45 mins or less.

It depends on what connection you've got. I've got a 1.3MB/s ADSL line, so I can download a Linux distro (close to 2GB) in about 7-8 hours. Some people with xDSL have slower connections, so it could quite easily take a full day for a xDSL user to download a Linux distro.

 

[WyteWatt]

CrazySaint True. The sad thing is more and more high speed internet isps are starting to have download and upload limits per a day
So one linux iso could use all of your download limit for one day or close Some high speed internet isps don't have a download or upload limit but they do say in like the AUP that it should not effect other users or something like that. What do you all think about all of these download and upload limits more high speed internet isps may enforce?

Something that i wonder is does a person want fastest high speed internet connection or the fastest video card? Or both ? When someone already has the fastest video card but can get OOL then they can get both. But not everyone can. People with both are very lucky because it seems most people only have the chance of one or the other. I think i would rather the fastest internet connection or at least in the middle of a faster connection. Like not the slowest high speed internet connection but still really fast. Sense you can download a lot more game demos a lot faster. I mean yeah everyone wants both but its not possible if you don't live in one of those rare areas for the fastest internet connections. Anyone can get the fastest video card just need the money.

 

[Syran]

I pay $34 a month in se georgia for my DSL. That is about $12 less then what I paid for dial up ($20 a month dialup + $26 a month for 2nd line)... Broadband is the win!

 

[Siddhartha]

I imagine they were saying the same thing about Johannes Gutenberg's printing press back in the 15th century.

 

[MikeMike]

kf, do you have dial-up or broadband?


kf, i want to see you sit at my computer, and try to d/l lets see(hmmm...) linux
640mb*~3=1920mb

now with my connection that would take if i did my math right, about 8 full days worth of d/ling.
and then i am out of internet for 8 days, b/c it becomes worthless when i d/l stuff.
hmm i want a new patch for my game up there goes 20min-2 hours of doing nothing
and then i must deal with somehow getting kicked off.
Now how is broadband not better? linux in <1 day patch in <10min

now lets see 2.8kbps d/l is not amazing and that is what i have.
I cant stand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
porn? thats not why i want dsl
warez? no not really either
gaming? YES
linux? YES
patches? YES
SP1? YES

i am hardly ever able to stay on overight w/o being kicked off(msn)

end rant

 

[Daovonnaex]

Originally posted by: rayster
"Broadband's primary purposes are pornography and "sharing" of copyrighted materials."
WTF?
Broadband is the next step in the evolution of computers and human communication. With broadband, the always on connection means I can obtain up to date information instantly. It means rich context multimedia. It means face to face distance learning applications. It means telepresence. It means the Net is my hard drive. It means that from my desk I can tunnel into my mother's computer and show her how to do something from 3 states away. It means less frustration, less work to find information, less lost time, and more productivity.

Make high speed access universal, make it wireless, and create the tools to attach to it from anywhere, and then you'll see the reality.

Few people use broadband for what you described. The primary factors in the rapid spread of broadband are what I listed. How do you propose to make broadband universal and wireless? That would require government intervention. The government has no place in this--it should be left to the private sector.