said by TSI Gabe :

Why the hell would you get 1gbps @ home when most computers out there can barely sustain it?

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

said by Tails :

It's called QoS, and it works very well if you know how to use it

said by Tails :

I don't see why any household would need that kind of bandwidth.

said by Tails :

I could see 20/20 or 30/15 or even 30/30, but if you use more than the average home, then it might be best if you move up to the business account

I'm with you on this, but at the same time the world isn't perfect. ISPs want to be the gatekeepers, plain and simple, and if you want unfettered access to the internet, either you protest until you're blue in the face, build your own network (hardly possible), or pay more (which is probably what you will end up doing, sadly).

said by bender :

i'd run a webhosting business to be honest.

said by Eat Me :

I'm sure most residential ISPs will also put in their TOS the usual "no servers, no reselling" clause.

Even FiOS blocks port 80 unless you have static IP, and you can't resell a residential connection.

So you may be able to get away for a short while reselling but then they'll find out eventually, shut you down and/or sue you.

said by bender :

i'd run a webhosting business to be honest.

said by Eat Me :

Talk of 1GBps is nice, but what time frame?

said by iansltx :

2012.

said by Eat Me :

Talk of 1GBps is nice, but what time frame?

said by N O Y B :

6 - 9 bil is only stimulus package, not the total spending that would occur.

Once again we see Karl's blatant biased views being exhibited in his reporting.

said by dwang5 :

Obviously, 1gbps looks crazy by today's standards, but 5 years from now, it doesn't look so crazy.

said by mrchris :

Yet we continue to fall behind on overall broadband ranking because of things like greed, atrocious TOS and other things.

said by DarkLogix :

Oh ya they need that speed just for SC2

we're doomed their skills will get 1337 in no time flat

said by Jack00 :

The US doesn't need to spend the billions on broadband, we don't have the budget for it. However, we DO have the budget to find trillions of dollars to start a couple of wars and give several hundred billions to Halliburton for "services" contracts, though. Only in America!!

said by Jack00 :

OK then, war is war, I really don't care, but why is is SO hard to find money for our, the US, infrastructure, healthcare, jobs, BROADBAND!!!, etc... while most democracies can find such money easily without raising taxes. We can easily find money for pork spending, and the military and corrupt people who overcharges, and steals our tax dollar.

said by Cargopantdude :

Keep in mind that small countries like Korea have populations crammed together so it's easy to develop super high speed internet infrastructure. Consider another country with high per capita internet connections - Iceland, did they not go bankrupt? Speaking of which, Korean banks had to set up a borrowing facility from the US FEDERAL RESERVE, like their own central bank couldn't handle the crisis. Moral of the story is do you want to live in a country that brags about its super high service and overly tacky melodramas but doesn't have their act together when it comes to finances, banking (remember 1997 anyone?), education, cultural insularity...

said by jvillej :

Our country is much larger than Korea, so people whining need to get over it. I say we slow speeds down so people can go outside and do something productive while they wait for their files to download. Then maybe we will have less lazy scrubs mooching off the workers in this country! .... be patient we will get there when we need to.