Single internal network connections over fibre can now run at 40Gbps (and in some parts of Sweden it is possible to get a domestic connection running at this speed) and research is currently ongoing to accelerate this to 100 Gbps.
If DSL were abandoned and you could have a fibre feed directly to your home how fast would you like it to go and how much would you be willing to pay for such high speeds?
How long is a piece of string, Mitch? It would depend on what the bandwidth cost and what content was available for me.
I think 100 Meg Ethermet would be enough for me and if it wasn't so pricey would have such a connection installed.
Presumably you have a purpose in mind? For me, the move to FTTC will be primarily driven by a desire for stability, I'm not sure I'll use the extra speed as I can't type any faster. ;)
I'd just like the speed to be honest.
I find that if I'm watching a webcast running off a server in the States for example it tends to buffer, if I do it at work where we have a 1 Gbps pipe to the net and 100 Mbps to the desktop it tends to much less.
I only get as far as YouTube. ;)
20up/100down Mbps would do for now ;)
Would be enough to trivialise any current download requirement i.e. games off Steam, as well as being capable of streaming 2x 1080P video feeds with some still spare. Obviously infrastructure and peering have to be able to keep up. There's no point having headline grabbing speeds, as in South Korea, if you only see a fraction of that when downloading from a server located outside the country.
Quote from: Rik on Jun 02, 2010, 17:14:32I'm not sure I'll use the extra speed as I can't type any faster. ;)
That's about how I feel ;D
My old 500MHz P3 was faster than I was, and it wasn't until software bloat overtook the hardware that I really felt the need to upgrade. Same with comms, fibre is simply more stable than copper, the extra speed is mostly a bonus.
Subject to the aforementioned software bloat :(
We do have one of the best Internet Exchange Points in the world, LINX which is mutually owned by the members so I think its up to the challenge.
10/20meg up and 100meg down for me.
Reason : For my job
I'd like it to be faster than the speed of light. Then I can know what the future is. And get next weeks lottery number. Oh, forget the lottery number, just knowing the weather would do. :whistle:
For me the primary concerns are stability and low latency. Providing I have that then fast transfer rates are a luxury I don't particularly need. 8 Mb/s actually does everything that I require but I would like a much faster upstream. 2 Mb/s+ would be great. Around once or twice a week I do need to shift gigabytes but I've got used to doing that as a background task so it's no big deal.
If it was within my power I'd like to roll out an Ethernet based network so it would be symmetrical (100 Meg down/100 up)
Let's go for a gigabit while we're there. :)
Yes would be nice.
But how many gigabits :evil:
One will do to start with. :)
I think we are talking 2110 before that will happen.
I may just not be around. :)
Me neither
How will we ever know?
And if we do, I doubt we'll care
I'd love to be able to time travel and drop in to observe society at various points both past and future. In the same way, I'd like to have grown up i multiple cultures so that I could better understand other people.
Quote from: Rik on Jun 03, 2010, 15:32:35
I'd love to be able to time travel and drop in to observe society at various points both past and future
It
would be fascinating to understand how the St George's flag never seems to be flown on 23 April but became hijacked by Ingerland football supporters for their chavmobiles. :gb:
Good point, they seem to everywhere today.
and of course the three lions.
Less prominent, sadly. ;D
They did have a nice red England polo shirt in M&S which I was tempted to buy but did not want to get tarred with the scumbags.
That can be very messy. ;D
Quote from: pctech on Jun 03, 2010, 16:11:28
They did have a nice red England polo shirt in M&S which I was tempted to buy but did not want to get tarred with the scumbags.
My local B&Q has a really fine range of England branded polo shirts, retractable rules and other hand tools, banners, chavmobile flags etc. Such a difficult decision knowing what to buy first - so I didn't!
:lol:
Wise man. :)
Quote from: faircot on Jun 03, 2010, 16:20:57
My local B&Q has a really fine range of England branded polo shirts, retractable rules and other hand tools, banners, chavmobile flags etc. Such a difficult decision knowing what to buy first - so I didn't!
I rather liked the England wheelbarrow!
It won't be used for carrying the trophy home. :)
I would like my connection to go so fast there was no mention of England or Football in the same sentence as it has gone so fast its travelled thorough time to a future place that does not involve knuckle dragging and flags and balls :whistle:
I'm sure Cisco/Juniper/Brocade/Force10 will probably work on interdimensional routers in the future Gary but I think for now they are struggling with how to accelerate connections to 100 Gbps and beyond
;D
Quote from: pctech on Jun 04, 2010, 09:34:05
I'm sure Cisco/Juniper/Brocade/Force10 will probably work on interdimensional routers in the future Gary but I think for now they are struggling with how to accelerate connections to 100 Gbps and beyond
;D
Bet the Doctor could do it ;D
;D
Who?
:ithank:
Was trying to remember as many router manufacturers as I could so I would not be accused of manufacturer bias.
;D
You left out Belkin. ;)
Was really talking about ISP/carrier grade routers Rik.
I know, but I couldn't resist Mitch. ;D
Yes
I'd like 10M up. I can live with a few Mbit down though.
I suspect you're in a minority, Esh. :)
My previous ISP had the peculiar package setup of 8M down and 256k up or the 800k up with...0.5M down. I got used to it...
Didn't run out of a shed near you did it? ;D
Haha, I think they pretty much used to back in the day. Then they got bought up by Pipex/Tiscali, so I know their tech support ended up working out of a shed... in asia somewhere (hence the move).