South Korea to get 1Gb broadband (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9093991.stm)
Quote from: john on Oct 18, 2010, 00:50:25
South Korea to get 1Gb broadband (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9093991.stm)
:bawl:
I think we already discussed that BT will roll this out sometime in the next decade as long as you are within 1cm of the exchange.
Quote from: esh on Oct 18, 2010, 09:49:09
I think we already discussed that BT will roll this out sometime in the next decade as long as you are within 1cm of the exchange.
:rofl:
BT Mistook it to mean 1[GreatBritain] Broadband. We will all have to share the same line! :eek4:
I think you should be able to get 1GB broadband unless you are a banker, they should be restricted to 256k to reduce the rate they can trade at to limit the speed at which they can destroy the economy.
I can see the point of 1Gbps for streaming high-quality video etc, but for other purposes... I'm not sure I could do a sustained write to a hard drive at that speed?
Our upstream connections at work are 1Gbps but we run a lot of servers running services for external users.
1Gbps should equate in theory to 128MB/sec. Your average desktop drive will do 30-50MB/sec, so you'd probably need a few drives RAIDed to cope with that... or SSD, of course. They can now do nearly a gigabyte per second in multiple configurations now.
Oh. I was thinking of this last night, while trying to sleep. 1Gbps is not enough. We need at least 10. For the new Holographic streaming media!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKCUGQ-uo8c
Oh, it's 360 degrees of rotation. So not true volumetric holograms. But it would need appropriately 360 times the bandwidth of current videos. :eek4:
(Unless you generate it from the pc, like in 3d games)
How about streaming daylight though your eyes and going outside ;D
Quote from: Gary on Oct 18, 2010, 13:01:49
How about streaming daylight though your eyes and going outside ;D
Nope. Not today [Caugh Sneeze]. :P
When you consider the fastest speeds available to a select few in this country are not enough to stream today's standards, I'm not surprised some countries are already looking further ahead.
Quote from: Gary on Oct 18, 2010, 13:01:49
How about streaming daylight though your eyes and going outside ;D
No you don't want to go outside, its too dangerous out there ;D