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dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2004-10-12 05:51am

Not sure if this should go in computers or science. This new service will allow 1Gbps downstream and 480mbps upstream. Would allow streaming of high definition television throughout the home. And its all wireless

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Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-10-12 06:34am

I will move to the area that lets me download porn that fast

Finaly internet services catch up with the tremendous hard drive storages aviable

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-12 06:49am

You'll never keep up. They'll make something better and then the HDD or connection to the net will be the limiting factor again. You watch as a single clip of porn takes up 1TB.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2004-10-12 06:51am

Ok I am not a computer expert like some of you all. So my question is can current hardware handle that much per sec. Processing and storing the information

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-10-12 12:08pm

dragon wrote:Ok I am not a computer expert like some of you all. So my question is can current hardware handle that much per sec. Processing and storing the information

Hell yes.

The current PCI bus cant handle 1Gbps, but the next generation PCIe which is just being rolled out can support upto 2.5Gbps per lane, and you can have 32 lanes bundled together (80 Gbps in both directions!) with the current PCIe spec.

The biggest problem is mass data storage speed. But lots of cheap ram(+4gb of ram

) helps offset that.

Butterbean569 · Post by **Butterbean569** » 2004-10-12 12:45pm

I can't even get a 1 Mbps cable connection for less than 35 dollars around here....it's gonna be decades till this technology comes down to a reasonable price I would think

Ok, maybe not decades...but many years

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-10-12 04:52pm

Butterbean569 wrote:I can't even get a 1 Mbps cable connection for less than 35 dollars around here....it's gonna be decades till this technology comes down to a reasonable price I would think Ok, maybe not decades...but many years

I'm not so sure. The article made a point to mention how inexpensive it is. I'm not familiar with the current laws, but if there's no monopoly and the powers that be try to gouge on price, new companies will undercut them. What will probably happen, is that the current companies will keep their prices just low enough that there's no incentive for new ones to bear the high fixed costs of setting up. I don't know how low that is, but I'd be surprised if it were outrageously priced.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-10-13 01:27am

Butterbean569 wrote:I can't even get a 1 Mbps cable connection for less than 35 dollars around here....it's gonna be decades till this technology comes down to a reasonable price I would think Ok, maybe not decades...but many years

In Australia we cant even get 512/128 kbps for that cheap. 1 Mbps aDSL costs +$100 AUS a month.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-10-13 01:32am

Sounds good. But the websites themselves will need something even faster to serve a group of hungry users with such high speed connections.