Loathe thy neighbour

Overheal

http://gizmodo.com/5334023/attention-portuguese-people-youre-about-to-get-the-fastest-broadband-in-the-world

Portuguese ISP Zon Multimedia will devlier one gigabit of bandwidth to broadband customers come September. One gigabit! So, if you want a truly fast internet connection in 2009, you're better off moving to the Azores than, say, New York City.

This is painful for the vast majority of the world's online population, who live out their lives in a sub-10Mbps ghetto, but doubly so for South Korea, who seemed to have the claim to the first 1Gbps connection all locked up. If it's any consolation, nobody's even claiming they'll be able to hit 1Gbps here.


Of course, there will be disadvantages. 1Gbps connections surely won't come cheap, and seriously, beyond extremely well-seeded torrents, you're going to have trouble finding too many places that are willing to serve you content at over 128 megabytes per second. But still, this hurts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtqz0bdq30Q

Don't know what I would ever need with that much speed, but good to have.

Turd Ferguson

So.....much......porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111

Schism

Gigabit bandwidth but what's the actual throughput going to be? I guess even with high contention it's going to be very speedy.

drunkmonkey

Schism wrote: »

I guess even with high contention it's going to be very speedy.

i'm sure Watty will be on with a diagram to demonstrate the contention to us shortly, I just hope he uses some good looking chicks for illustration purposes..

if we have this by 2020 here i'll be very surprised...

Schism

drunkmonkey wrote: »

i'm sure Watty will be on with a diagram to demonstrate the contention to us shortly, I just hope he uses some good looking chicks for illustration purposes..

if we have this by 2020 here i'll be very surprised...

Surprised? I'd be downright shocked. Considering we can't roll out a minimum of 1mb around the country in its entirety in 2009.

MelonieHead

Overheal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtqz0bdq30Q

Yay! I miss that sound.

Overheal

Im settting it up as my windows startup sound when I get home to my laptop.

My name is URL

Awesome, you'd be able to download movies while they're still being made

Overheal

I can already do a lot of torrenting without lagging on counterstrike or anything

but its still hard to cap out a 10mbps connection. Youd have to be streaming a lot of shyte all at once.

Bandit12

Who cares. Don't even know what a gigabyte is.

TheZohanS

Bandit12 wrote: »

Who cares. Don't even know what a gigabyte is.

It's a System32 virus.

Overheal

Bandit12 wrote: »

Who cares. Don't even know what a gigabyte is.

Welcome to the Internet! Over there is the toilet, 2nd door on the left. To your right you can see the ghost of 1999...

Dr. Shredder

MelonieHead wrote: »

Yay! I miss that sound.

jus' like the good ol' days huh?

FlutterinBantam

Overheal wrote: »

I can already do a lot of torrenting without lagging on counterstrike or anything

but its still hard to cap out a 10mbps connection. Youd have to be streaming a lot of shyte all at once.

So.... you are telling us you are IT, is that it?

mikom

Meanwhile back in the emerald isle..........

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Overheal

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no i was just pointing out theres no way or shape in hell that theyd be able to take full advantage of 1gbps. Not with todays model. Just pointing out I cant even use all of 1/100th what the portugese are getting.

Unless you start talking about cloud computing.

Can a hard disk even achieve a 128 megabytes per second throughput? Very unlikely in my opinion; I'm sure your machine would be the bottleneck with a connection like this.