Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA | WOOT1!1!11
1GBPS - on my "island" that is! |
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woody7
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA | hmmmm....
Time to move 
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Coo
Wonder if my MSI 10" netbook with a 5400rpm hard drive will handle the speed or blow up? |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | What time frame?
Talk of 1GBps is nice, but what time frame? |
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TSI Gabe
Premium,VIP
join:2007-01-03
Chatham, ON | Why the hell would you get 1gbps @ home when most computers out there can barely sustain it? Although I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have  |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX | reply to ninjatutle
Re: Coo
Just fo a local lan test to see how fast you can download from a computer on your internal network and that should give you an idea of if you can handle it |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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Re: What time frame?
said by TSI Gabe  :Why the hell would you get 1gbps @ home when most computers out there can barely sustain it? You're stuck in a "one computer" mindset. 1Gbps opens all sorts of possibilities for time shifting video and multiple people watching IP video streams, not to mention everything else we do these days. |
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Angrychair
join:2000-09-20
Jacksonville, FL | reply to TSI Gabe
Why would anyone need more than an 8088 when most people can't type more than 60wpm anyway? |
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BigVe
join:2005-07-15
Gulliver, MI | reply to TSI Gabe
With 1gbps in my area it would mean resell(my eyes turns to $ signs) |
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funchords
Hello
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Skype
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said by TSI Gabe :Why the hell would you get 1gbps @ home when most computers out there can barely sustain it? Although I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have It's a fair question.
Because: the way that you support innovation is to get ahead of it.
Why does Intel and AMD put out processors BEFORE there are applications that need that much power?
The USA and Canada spent the 80s and 90s in leadership technology. Asia passed us in 2000 and this move by South Korea will help ensure that the USA and Canada will be chasing their taillights for decades to come.
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
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TSI
1gbps is only around 90MB/s (actual) or 125MB/s (theoretical). The newer (regular drives) now have a sustained throughput of 100MB/s with some of the high end drives hitting 250MB/s. Those are both in a non raid configurations. A lot of current motherboards come with built in raid capability so you can almost double those numbers when raid0 is used. Since most of the computers sold in the last few years have GigE Ethernet ports the can make good use of this kind of speed. I have set up a lot of households up with cat6 cable and GigE switches so that they would have this kind of speed in house, for all kinds of large file transfers.
Now on top of that, add what was hinted at above about multiple users in one home. A lot of homes now have a computer for every member. Mom, Dad, Brother, and Sister all online a one time can bring your "average" 16Mbps connection to its knees pretty quick.
All the above is just for today. Think about the bandwidth requirements that a household will have when the 1Gbps system is completed (3-5 years with luck?). |
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The Folsom
Kindly Shut Your Noise Hole.
Premium
join:2003-01-31
Yucaipa, CA | Well put.  |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to Eat Me
By 2012. |
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Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
clubs:
 ·BlueYonder Interne..
·Be There
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said by Eat Me :Talk of 1GBps is nice, but what time frame? The article linked is your friend!
quote:
The plan calls for a total spending of 34.1 trillion won ($24.6 billion) over the next five years. The central government will put up 1.3 trillion won, with the remainder coming from private telecom operators. The project is expected to create 120,000 jobs.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to Eat Me
2012. |
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Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
clubs:
·BlueYonder Interne..
·Be There
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South Korea has a population of about 50 million.
This is nearly $5,000 for every man, woman and child in South Korea, and $4,750 of that is coming from the carriers. How did they manage to swing this, and how can we get this model flowing elsewhere? |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to Jerm
Re: WOOT1!1!11
Gbps, not GBps. IOW Gigabit ethernet crossover'd to fiber to the home. Needless to say, sick.
Verizon could do this with FiOS...if they were willing to oversell like the cable companies do lol. |
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cajun4x4
join:2000-10-02
Baytown, TX
·ViaTalk
2 edits | Heavy populated areas that's how
How many of you have been to South Korea? I much prefer to stay in the US and suffer from lower speeds than live in that country. I could surely bet that none of the farm areas in that country will see those type of services any time soon. I hate it when articles like that compare our country to countries the size of Texas. |
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KodiacZiller
join:2008-09-04
73368 | 1 Gbps. to. the. home = just.sick.
Yet, here we are in the USA hoping that we might get DOCSIS 3.0 at 50 Mbps before 2011. |
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Angrychair
join:2000-09-20
Jacksonville, FL | reply to Ignite
Re: How The Heck Did They Get The Operators On Board?
It's incredible what can get done when you remove greed as the motivation and insert altruism in its place. |
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