Optimum On-Line: 20Mbps > Bull

said by IMHO:

The real quesion is, how many sites anyone visits are capable of providing the corrasponding level of connection?

I mean, great, I can download at 100mbs, but do you think for a minute most of the companies out there are capable of providing servers out there with that kind of return connection?

So far, in many cases, I've found servers where I've been where I want to download something (usually a fairly large file say 600Mb or a Gb of data are not quite up to the task to match what my connection is capable.

So, until these companies get thier networks / servers up to snuff, in a lot of cases having these ultra high speed connections is just fluf.

Now could it be those who are the gamers are the ones driving this? Perhaps, so we benefit from this being able to get the faster speeds, but we aren't likely to really see the benefit until the businesses with the associated file servers embrace the new technology also.

Sure, they will embrace it for thier internal systems, but for external systems I sincerly doubt we'll see much.