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WOWIE WOW WOW! 25x faster than today's cable modems!!!

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Havok:

--- Quote from: Texasmame on May 09, 2007, 07:50:35 pm ---Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.
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Meh - 3 times faster than my real current connection...

Yawn... Cable is the sux0r...

bfauska:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 10, 2007, 07:51:19 am ---
Won't happen here, we still can't get DSL.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAN.  How many posts would you have if you had a broadband connection?  What kind of connection DO you have and why haven't you moved?  I have been so used to high speed that if I go anywhere and have to use dial-up or anything slower than DSL I go crazy, I suppose I'm spoiled and picky, but it's hard to have to wait again after years of nearly instant page loads.

Texasmame:

--- Quote from: bfauska on May 10, 2007, 12:41:05 am ---I had FiOS for a few months when I last lived with my parents.  Fan-freaking-tastic.  The potential behind the fiber-optic system is phenomenal.  I can't wait to see where Verizion takes it.  If cable comes up with anything that can keep up I will be very surprised.  This project you are posting about may be faster than FiOS for a while, but the bandwidth potential of light is insane, thousands of wavelengths (that current technology can detect) that each equal one copper conductor essentially, and no RFI.  I have very high hopes for fiber-optic, and the responses that anybody competing with it will come up with.  Great technology fuels competition, and competition fuels innovation.  The future's so bright I gotta  8)

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Debating going with FIOS.  Same price as my Verizon DSL, just haven't done it due to the PITA factor of having a tech come to run the box, fibers, etc.

Then again, I introduced my wife to Limewire tonight - she's cuttin' big-time into the bandwidth now!  :P

I gotta make the jump to FIOS :blah:. . .

Havok:

--- Quote from: Texasmame on May 11, 2007, 12:16:06 am ---Debating going with FIOS.  Same price as my Verizon DSL, just haven't done it due to the PITA factor of having a tech come to run the box, fibers, etc.

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Dude - totally worth it. I've had FIOS for 6 months now, and I will never go back!!! They even installed a battery backup system so that if my power goes out, my internet doesn't - at least not for about 8 hours. Do it now, thank me later...

patrickl:
Cable is available at 12,5Mb already in the Netherlands (not lab speeds, but what you actually can get)  ADSL2+ goes up to 20Mb. In reality there are not many sites that actually offer full speed downloads though.

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