RSS100Mbps Cable Internet by 2006
By Ed Oswald | Published July 20, 2005, 11:59 AM
A Finnish firm says that 100Mbps cable Internet will be possible as early as next year, thanks to its new Ethernet-to-the-home technology. Also, the cost to companies to connect customers using this ultra-fast connection is expected to be relatively cheap, meaning customers may not need to worry about rising broadband costs for more speed.
Teleste, a small company that produces broadband equipment, would have to compete with much larger firms Scientific Atlanta and Cisco. However, the company says the earliest it expects its rivals to have similar technology would be early 2007.
The Ethernet-to-the-home technology would cost cable providers between $60 and $240 to connect a new home, a figure that companies could recoup in several months of service.
Currently, cable provider Essent of the Netherlands is testing the technology; however, according to the company, speeds are not yet at a level that Essent is satisfied with.
"Based on our research 30 Megabits per second is the absolute minimum in future homes. Just one TV program would take 10-20 Megabits per second of this alone. So, very fast we would reach a need for 30 Megabits, and also for 50 Megabits per second," Pekka Rissanen, a Teleste executive told reporters at a news conference.
So, we shall have no more aerials, set-top boxes, 'phones' (per se), and all media content to any (and every household within range) is going to be via this big fat pipe? Can you do something for the over abundance of power-supplies and plugs that I currently use? I need the PSU version of your big, fat broadband pipe for 220V!
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|People here in Hong Kong're already enjoying !!!1000MB!!! residential broadband, if you're willin to pay HKD$1,680+ (~USD$216+) per MONTH
http://www.hkbn.net/bb10..._offer/05_new_offer.htm
(i've been using a 12MB broadband (not the same ISP as above) for ~USD$11 per MONTH for 2 years+, i think it's more than enough already, currently.. in my opinion, payin USD$216+ per MONTH means paying the ISP an ipod (mini) or a low quality 15" / 17" LCD monitor from China / Taiwan per MONTH.. will nvr try in the coming 48 MONTHS, personally. better to save the money to buy other electronic toys :p)
maybe my ISP will upgrade to 100MB soon for free, dun care
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|What's the point? 3mb per sec or 1 billion is in no way different from each other. Fact is all websites limit your bandwith to allow multiple users. I went from a 2mb connection to 6mb connection and nothing happened. And file sharing, forget it. You are still limited by the guy you are downloading from. he will never allow you all his bandwith either. Don't believe the hype people. Stay with you 2-4 mb connection and let the fools pay for the insane speeds that don't matter.
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|Some limit your speed, not all, your not looking in the right places, :)
And if your sharing files from your PC to another user (direct link) or even P2P, ect.. it will be greatly noticeable. I download from users in Sweden who already have 100Mbit connections and alot that only have 10Mbit, and the speeds are crazy
I'm topping my 3Mbit ATM on their line and they barely feel it. The great thing as well is you can also throttle your speed say you share and allow a file to transfer at 5Mbit and leave your self another 5Mbit while playing games, online are you not going to get better gaming performance at the same time as a file is uploading or downloading? Answer yes, because the game requires x amount and the file is going to also use x amount. So some bandwidth would be taken away from the game your playing online, or whatever else you may be doing that requires bandwidth such as some of the new places that offer watching movies via the net or listening/watching to music/music videos.
I am speaking in small terms here, but overall there are so many things that will have a benefit from the increase of speed. Your not viewing the big picture here. And no difference from 2 to 6? You obviously are in the wrong places getting files..
I am always topping out my connection and wishing I had more, this will be great when it comes to my location. Not to mention alot cheaper than T(x) lines.
The only real limit you will have is the limitation of your system (CPU) as well as Hard Drives and Ram, if they cannot buffer/read/write the date as quick as your stream then your going to not get your full speed. You may want to take that into consideration with your current connection. Especially on 5400 and 7200 RPM drives, they will not even fully use a 3Mbit connection no less a 10 or 100. Might want to invest in some fast drives such as 10,000 RPM+ and Raid helps as well :)
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|it says 100 mb/s but really its gonna run at like 10 mb/s i bet. Even so i would be happy with that.
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|I got consistantly stable ADSL, 2.5/640. Downloads(from fast enough servers, like microsoft's) at 249.8kb/sec, uploads at 63.4kb/sec.
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|If I could get a constant 2 Mbps connection I'd be happy--but nobody wants that. They want you to believe bigger is better when fact is you rarely get more than 1.5mbps with 8mbps roadrunner. Sure it "peaks" at around 4mbps but who the heck cares? Man if I can get a 1.54Mbps T1 line for under 100 a month I'd rather that to the alternatives...
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|so this is not the same as "internet 2"? guess not since it's coming out much quicker but not as fast as '2' though....
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|I think Internet2 is a research medium on which universities can develop and test new internet mechanisms. I don't think the intention of Internet2 is to make it public; it was created because the internet became widespread, and thus prevented any major research on it. Much of the development (new transport mechanisms, etc) on Internet2 may later be included on the public net.
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|Well, here we don´t even dream with that conecction speed. My friend near my house pays USD$14 (40pesos) for a 100Kb conecction and I pay USD$30 for a 256Kb conecction to Telefonica. I whish I could have at least 2Mb conections toa reasonable price here. A 2 Mb line costs USD$70 (¡200pesos! ¡some people earn that per month here!)
So when I read and notice how everybody is crying cuz they only have a 16Mb conection for 20 bucks, I feel like #!@/% !. Still, the writting speed problem will eventually be solved but the speed and the cost/benefit of the instalations are a different issue, I would love to a foreigh company to install some nice conecctions of 1Mb for USD$25 (70pesos) here.
Go internet! It has to evolve and we eventually will need it to do so
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