when will there be a faster internet?

[gw186]

It will be faster on July 1st. Got an email today saying it's going up to 1.5mb. Curently 640

 

[sharkeeper]

The innernet is plenty fast people!

You just need bigger pipes to get there.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Kvaerner Masa
The innernet is plenty fast people!

You just need bigger pipes to get there.

fat dongs?

 

[dc]

100mbit is affordable (under $100) in japan.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

"Faster Internet" is really a last mile problem the core network is plenty fast. To give you an idea, you can fit well over 100, 10 Gbps channels on a single fiber; and I think that the current long-haul speed record over a single fiber is over 1 Tbps. A fiber bundle will typically contain several hundreds of fibers, so as you can see there is plenty of backbone bandwidth available.

As I said, this is principally a last-mile problem so population-dense areas like Taiwan, South Korea, and Tokyo will always be more profitable for a rollout of new technology.

 

[Baked]

When they eliminate all the spammers.

 

[chrisms]

THE INTERNET IS SLOW BECAUSE YOU TOUCH YOURSELF AT NIGHT

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: chrisms
THE INTERNET IS SLOW BECAUSE YOU TOUCH YOURSELF AT NIGHT

QFT

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I saw a news thread a while ago that said Taiwan is trying to get 1Gb to home users for the equivelant of $250 a month.

They get 1 Mb for 6-10 bucks and 20-30 Mb for about 40 bucks.

(Which is all BS. I seem to visit a lot of web sites that still only upload at slow DSL speed. The only time I hit my peak of 4Mb is on bandwidth testing sites. Or using Download Accelerator to get Linux ISO's.)

when i had @Home back in the day (before bandwidth limiting), I used to max out the full 10 Mbp/s all the time. You could pull stuff down at over 1 megabyte per second. I regularly max out my 3 Mbp/s DSL these days.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: toekramp
Verizon FIOS should fuel competition