SillyRabbit
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Re: How about...
said by fiberguy  :I think you are not thinking correctly there. 1gb connections wouldn't necessarily kill a city.. rather, people would be able to get on and off the internet MUCH quicker so the time one spends living on the line for their request to complete would be VERY short lived. No! The more speed you have, the more stuff you will get. |
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pspcrazy
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA
 ·DSL EXTREME
| While that is somewhat true IMO there is a limit to how much stuff people could collect on their hard drives lol. I'd pay 240 a month easy for a gigabit connection. 350 mabye lol. Paxio currently offers cap free gigabit connections for 200 a month atm I believe, may be a bit higher need to check again. If they have it why shouldn't the rest of the U.S also have it? |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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said by SillyRabbit :said by fiberguy :I think you are not thinking correctly there. 1gb connections wouldn't necessarily kill a city.. rather, people would be able to get on and off the internet MUCH quicker so the time one spends living on the line for their request to complete would be VERY short lived. No! The more speed you have, the more stuff you will get. No.. not necessarily.. I've got 50 meg internet speeds and I still use the internet the same way. Not everyone on the internet will use more.. they will just get done faster. SOME will use more... to which, maybe the should google "obsession" and correct their problem. |
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jp10558
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join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY
| Sure, if you use the internet the same way, then you will not use more. That's quite the truism. But I'm sure we see places for where the internet can be used differently, from serving content from home (pics for family and friends), videoconferencing, SAAS (maybe even via ssh + X Forwarding at those speeds), real software rental via SoftGrid, video delivery a la iTunes, Joost, etc.
Your ISP will be able to bundle IPTV, and you'll be able to have realistic network HDs via CIFS, NFS, various propriatery stuff etc. Much bigger possibilities for Amazon S3 etc.
You could, of course, keep doing text e-mail, DSLR and a few other websites, but then, is it really *faster* over 50Mbit? At a certain point, all speed increases become "instant" for text transfer. That's speed is somewhere around 512Kbit for anything but books IMO.
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