10-05-2004, 05:15 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Who Wants A Gigabit Internet Connection?
I do! And no, I'm not kidding. :drool: Only catch: you have to move to Japan. :cry:
"Yahoo joins the small group of ISP's in Japan that offer 1Gbps (thanks to optic fiber connections). Agreed, you have to share this speed with 32 other customers, but the offer is quite astonishing anyway, and sharing will reduce the cost (and as a consequence the price)."
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10-05-2004, 05:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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1Gb = 1024Mb
1024Mb / 32 users = 32Mb
That's 32MB per user, that (might) go up to 1GB if you are the only person using the network.
In Sweden, they offer 100Mb guaranteed for ($79.49 / mo)
Don't get me wrong, I would be sooo happy with 32Mb guaranteed!
In caliornia you're happy if you get 5Mb. Why is it so cool in those other places? I want 100Mb... booooo 
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10-05-2004, 07:19 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 114
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you get 5???
i only get 3 in CA.
not that im complaining really...
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10-05-2004, 07:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,108
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Originally Posted by nuka_t
you get 5???
i only get 3 in CA.
not that im complaining really... |
You get 3 megabits? I only get one and a half at my luckiest, and that features a high rate of packet loss, ~750 ms latency, and periodic total outages. I AM complaining. :devilboy:
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10-05-2004, 07:33 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 114
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ya, i get the outages too. im going to call and see whats up with those. i never had this problem when i was still at 1.5mb.
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10-05-2004, 08:19 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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techically, today, they can get 3tb through these cables (although theoretically there is no practical limit, that's the most used commercially).
I don't see the point of capping speeds, I mean, at the end of the day, who will have the capacity to actually USE 3TB of data in a second. No hard drive can handle it, no modem can handle it without you paying a *large* fortune, and you can't watch 428 TOTAL DVDs in one second. There's no techical excuse for a limit as slow as 5mb/s.
Now 1GB/s I can understand, dont want those DC++'ers to take over completely, and i don't think many hard drives could handle much more. :devilboy:
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10-05-2004, 08:30 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 141
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Originally Posted by zehubert
1Gb = 1024Mb
1024Mb / 32 users = 32Mb
That's 32MB per user, that (might) go up to 1GB if you are the only person using the network.
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I want you to think about this for a second, very carefully, then scroll down.
Fool. :devilboy:
Raise your hand if you are connected 24 hours a day, downloading at the highest speed possible. Keep your hand up if you would STILL do this with a 32mbit link. At this speed, it takes only a few hours to download a full 80GB hard disk, and if you're the only person downloading at the time, or the network is mostly empty, you could have it done in, you guessed it, 640 seconds. Now, if you had 8*Microsofts connected to this system, I could understand your concern. I remind you that this is 1 GB per SECOND.
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10-05-2004, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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I think that you're confusing your numbers. Judging from the original post, we're talking about a total of 1 gigaBIT, not 1 gigaBYTE. So, each user gets roughly 4 MBytes per second even at peak traffic, scaling up to 125 MBytes when everyone else is off.
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10-05-2004, 09:23 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 102
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Originally Posted by zehubert
1Gb = 1024Mb
1024Mb / 32 users = 32Mb
That's 32MB per user, that (might) go up to 1GB if you are the only person using the network.
In Sweden, they offer 100Mb guaranteed for ($79.49 / mo)
Don't get me wrong, I would be sooo happy with 32Mb guaranteed!
In caliornia you're happy if you get 5Mb. Why is it so cool in those other places? I want 100Mb... booooo |
Hikari Fiber propose 100Mb / user in Tokyo  Yahoo BB is the WORST EVER ISP in Japan, a lot of complain from clients and a lake of security, their client database has been stolen twice... :?
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10-05-2004, 09:24 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Originally Posted by zehubert
1Gb = 1024Mb
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Uh no, 1 Gigabyte (GB) equals 1024MB. 1Gb=128 megabytes.
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