1Gb/s Internet Connections @Home already a reality?

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Magera on 29 September 2008

hsrob said:

Magera said:

Woh. I live in Aus and I love my connection. 24Mb's is ample here. You can go 100Mb if you want but it's costly.

We have a great internet connection speed in comparison to many... including many people in the US.

Ok, i stand at least partially corrected. I just checked it out and we have moved up the list compared to the last time i checked. However, just because you can get 24Mb's doesn't mean everyone can. My parents live in a new-ish suburb in a major metro area and have only very recently been able to move off dial-up.

Ok, I also stand at least partially corected. I have friends who have recently moved into a newly developing suburb who are only able to get a semetrical 512k/512k connection, and they are currently paying like $70 a month. Very unfair for them.

If you live in metro or well established suburbs, ADSL 2+ is no problem. For the cuntry folks however, I don't know about them. I'm sure most newly built susburbs will be addressed soon enough. Give it another 12 months I'd say.

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bobobologna on 29 September 2008

What do you guys need that much bandwidth for?

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FilaBrasileiro on 29 September 2008

bobobologna said:
What do you guys need that much bandwidth for?

What else? Porn.

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Gobias on 29 September 2008

bobobologna said:
What do you guys need that much bandwidth for?

Go to Google and type in "porn".

As in go buy us some coffee.

http://speedhunters.com

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ssj12 on 29 September 2008

I get 20MB/s. I feel ripped off.. I want 100MB/s NOW! lol

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SnesTea on 30 September 2008

I get around 6MB/s and at night it goes down to about 20KB/s for some reason and it's been like that for the past year and half since I finally got internet. Costs 30 bucks a month and AT&T (my ISP) couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

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Fireburden5 on 30 September 2008

:O... erm... yeah im fine with my 60 kbps connection...
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Soleron on 30 September 2008

My parents pay £20/month for a 256KB/s with a 12GB monthly cap. There is no higher speed available, and I live near a major UK city. THAT sucks.

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Khuutra on 30 September 2008

The fastest connection I've ever been hooked up to was a 12Mb/s connection. I thought I was the king of the damn world, downloading Half-Life 2 off of Steam onto my fresh XP install at the rate of one megabyte a second.

I see that I was not.