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Title: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:34:51
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm

100Mbps fibre to the home. :happy: :out:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Malc on May 07, 2008, 15:43:34
Thats were all the pensioners go, isn't it?  :whistle:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: madasahatter on May 07, 2008, 15:44:43
Wonder why they chose Bournemouth, when I believe they have the highest concentration of OAPs in the UK?
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:45:41
Quote from: Malc on May 07, 2008, 15:43:34
Thats were all the pensioners go, isn't it?  :whistle:

:tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:  ;D I've got an uncle down there, I wonder...  :think:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:46:56
Quote from: madasahatter on May 07, 2008, 15:44:43
Wonder why they chose Bournemouth, when I believe they have the highest concentration of OAPs in the UK?


I wouldn't have been my first choice, Mad (Milton Keynes would have been!), I suspect this is off the back of the commercial involvement there.
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Cookiemonster on May 07, 2008, 15:48:13
Its  :notfair: :notfair: :notfair:....

I want 100Mbps to my house!!
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:51:38
One day... Of course, by then, the rest of the world will be on terrabit connections. :sigh:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Glenn on May 07, 2008, 17:03:33
Do you have to have the router near you toilets?  ;D
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 17:04:31
I guess they'll be changing the name of the woosh test, Glenn. ;)
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Sebby on May 07, 2008, 19:01:52
100Mbps fibre... Nice. 8)
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:08:23
It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Malc on May 07, 2008, 19:09:15
Moves like sh*t in a sewer.
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Cookiemonster on May 07, 2008, 19:13:24
Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:08:23
It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.

then again Rik Japan have had this kind of speeds for sometime now so yet again us Brits/Scots ;D ;D are well behind...
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:17:26
We always are, Jester, except for taxation, where we lead the world.  :mad:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Cookiemonster on May 07, 2008, 19:20:19
Oh yeah you couldn't be more right there.
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Sebby on May 07, 2008, 23:10:17
Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:08:23
It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.

It sounds like bliss. One day... ::)
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: psp83 on May 08, 2008, 00:35:49
Well this takes the p*ss..  :laugh:

I wonder what the FUP or "caps" will be on some ISP's, no names TISCALI...

Upto 100Mbps with a 7gb monthly cap, or in tiscali case. download more than 30mb in one evening and get capped to 56k speeds!!!
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Sebby on May 08, 2008, 07:54:07
I thought all Tiscali users have 56k speeds? :P
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Tacitus on May 08, 2008, 08:34:47
Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:34:51
100Mbps fibre to the home.

I noticed the other day that an office block on the other side of town is advertising 100Mbps broadband as one of the advantages of locating there. 

Out here in the sticks I'm struggling to get a reliable 2M at present.  Parrots and sick come to mind...
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Rik on May 08, 2008, 08:53:39
I feel your pain. I know what 100Mbps would feel like as my LAN runs at that. Imagining what I could do with that sort of speed from the 'net is the stuff of daydreams.
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Gary on May 08, 2008, 09:10:56
Bournemouth  ??? been there did a gig at the BIA, what a weird place, loads of youngsters in hoods and loads of targets, Saying that some of those OAP's may need the extra fibre :whistle:
Title: Re: I'm off to Bournemouth
Post by: Ann on May 11, 2008, 18:18:59
We'll all be OAPs tomorrow.. there's nought wrong with catering for me in my old age  :thumb: