gdepp
@69.57.x.x | reply to rwhubert
Re: Wow ???
does anyone know the range for this new hong kong 1gb broadband ?? |
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rwhubert
Bipolar Athlon
Premium
join:2002-07-26
Atlanta, GA | reply to DaMaGeINC
You don't need to do that, dude, it's been done for us! |
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Liberatarian4tehWin
@hewitt.com | reply to Digital_Boy
That was a very informative post! Gratz to your ability to kill the troll. |
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jonas33432
join:2001-11-05
Boca Raton, FL | reply to lafu
we DON't live in the most tech advanced country in the world anymore. Period.
That's very old myth.
Thank You gov for that and thanks for total monopoly on communication.
We badly need real competition on that. |
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Digital_Boy
@sbc.com
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Ah, pardon me, but your blatant display of ignorance was too much to ignore.
China did *NOT* do anything to Hong Kong until the British returned it to them in 1997. Prior to that, Hong Kong was (and still is) one of the most thriving havens of laissez-fair capitalism. As such, there's money to be spent, and businesses that are willing to spend it to future proof themselves. Beijing has been keeping the party's fingers out of HK's pie because they don't want to kill it's economic viability. They've been keeping their PSTN, cellular and data networks up to snuff for the last 20-30 years, so there is plent of fiber in the ground there that has been there for years. The majority of mainland China has almost no copper or fiber in the ground at all. This is why China is going for cellular technology in a big way, since it'd be prohibitively expensive for them to bury fiber to cover all of China.
This gigabit service is offered in Hong Kong only, and only in those buildings where it's wired (I'm guessing in high density urban housing, since that's where the majority of their customer base is) only. I defy you to show me an example of some private citizen outside of HK getting gigabit speeds for $215 a month to their home, say in Shanghai, or any other province of China.
30 years ago, the internet didn't exist outside of ARPANET and a few mainframes at large universities. There weren't cheap, powerful PC's in 80 to 90 percent of American households to fuel the demand for bandwidth like there is now. And all the fiber first laid at the onset of the upgrade to an entirely digital communications network was multimode fiber at first, since that was the limits of the technology in the early 70's. Now single mode fiber is the rule, since it has much better loss characteristics and ultimate bandwidth capacity. |
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PliotronX
My Katamari's Bigger Than Your Katamari
join:2000-05-13
Sunland, CA
| reply to fartness
2 seconds is pretty damn close to instantaneous I'd say (in human clock terms, not computers where nanoseconds matter LOL). The express install of SP2 would be an instant on a gigabit. Now whether or not even Microsoft's distributed load balancing servers could withstand meeellions of gigabit transfers like that, I dunno. It'd be so fast though that there wouldn't be much of a chance for a que to build up  |
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sahirs
join:2002-02-14
Singapore
| reply to BosstonesOwn
Ummm - your geography seems a bit off! The announcement is about Hong Kong - different country, different companies, 4 hours away on a 747!
said by BosstonesOwn  :I can't believe that it is actually available , with all those net problems in the Malaysia area happening can they really use it ? And who needs all that speed... I would like to order 2 please. 
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs:
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 ·AT&T Southeast
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--- All I have to say is #@$@ The USA.
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
Premium
join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | reply to rwhubert
If our country would have thought of this problem 30 years ago. We all wouldn't be having this discussion. China thought about this about the same time as our cold war. So, while we were building bombs, they were wiring up there country with fiber. So all they have to do, is replace the head-ends to provide faster service. Now, we are run by corp's, so maby we should adopt some Communist thinking. --
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cao1964
join:2000-08-09
Danville, PA
| reply to rtcpenguin
That is just incredible, but I be happy with 50 Mbps haha and that is not happening for ever and a day, but hey why should we complain after all the corp. people tell us we don't need it and the gov. tell us its ok to take medication that has been ban in EU for 5 years so you really think that stuff will be here in our life time, I think not. |
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Harddrive
Premium
join:2000-09-20
Norwich, CT
| reply to vd853
Look at the other speed tiers that HKBN offers:
Symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month and symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month.
US Telcos and Cable companies are scum of the earth that lie in a comfy bed with the FCC and other government agencies/politicians/etc.
I wish I was a lobbyist for a big interest group. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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said by ssbn729vet:"I can't believe that it is actually available , with all those net problems in the Malaysia area happening can they really use it ?" That is the same as saying to someone in Houston: "With all those net problems in the New York area happening can they really use it ?"  No it's not, the malaysia area interconnects happen to peer with HK and they use the same links for interconnects. The area is having problems and yes HK is having them too.
But you have to question if that service is good if that problem persists.
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ssbn729vet
@comcast.net
| reply to BosstonesOwn
"I can't believe that it is actually available , with all those net problems in the Malaysia area happening can they really use it ?"
That is the same as saying to someone in Houston: "With all those net problems in the New York area happening can they really use it ?" |
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rwhubert
Bipolar Athlon
Premium
join:2002-07-26
Atlanta, GA
·CYBERONIC INTERNET..
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Actually, no, we have slipped to like 13th place! Propaganda dies hard, but the USA is not the most tech country in terms of what is available to consumers. Nor do we have the highest living standard, not for at least the past 30 years. What we have now is not a "democracy" nor technically even a "republic" ... we have a "corporatocracy." Giant corporations control everything, including our governments at the federal and state levels. They can get gigabit pipes installed, we can't even get 10 megabits. Many of us are lucky to get 3 or 5 megabits. |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
Premium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | reply to lafu
most what now ? |
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vd853
join:2004-12-29
Brooklyn, NY | reply to BosstonesOwn
U.S. ISPs look like a joke compared to even 25% of that speed. |
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yvliew
join:2002-05-13
Renton, WA
| reply to lafu
"right now comcrap charges 57$ for non cable tv subscribers,look at reliability of their servers,not to mention that we live in the most advanced country in the world.i envy residents of hong kong..."
That's the most funny CRAP i've read all week!! |
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rtcpenguin
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join:2001-01-21
Fairfax, VA
·Cox HSI
| reply to mythology
Its getting to the point where it doesn't even seem to matter. I guess if you pirate full DVD's at 5gb all day this might be worth it, but for regular browsing and gaming, who needs more than a symmetric 50mbit pipe?
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guitarzan
Premium
join:2004-05-04
Skytop, PA
·epix
| reply to mythology
1Gbps Service in The USA ?
You can have it.Just as long one does not *actually* use it.Then you will get upload capped to 56k and download capped to 1500. Im so sorry says CSR at tech desk Did you really think you could use that bandwidth.? I guess you did not read the TOS or the fine print.Please remember no servers allowed
this is residential broadband service. lol |
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tcstone
join:2002-03-12
Glendale, CA | reply to lafu
Re: Wow ???
Are you sure we live in the most advanced county in the world? Evidence in a number of areas does not support that conclusion. |
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