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[Greg Brown <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com>]

You can get 100/100 meg service in Wilson today.  To your home.  For not a lot of money.  FiOS is coming soon (so they say) and that has the potential to bring somewhere in the range of 50/50 meg to a house though from what I hear the throughput is capped at a much lower rate.

It's nice to have that fast download speed but I'm still hoping for bumps in the upload speed.  This B.S. about giving you only enough upload to acks of your max download is getting very old.

Greg

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/does-broadband-need-a-stimulus/

"Running a new fiber-optic cable to every American home may well increase competition in broadband providers, but it isn't needed to deliver high-speed Internet service. Current cable modems use just one of the more than 100 channels on a typical cable system and can often offer speeds of 16 megabits per second or more. The next generation of modems, using a technology called Docsis 3, allows several of those video channels to be combined to offer what ultimately can be Internet service as fast as 1 gigabit per second — 10 times faster than is offered in Japan, which generally is regarded as having the fastest broadband infrastructure."

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Michael Czeiszperger

Chapel Hill, NC 

"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." - H. Simpson

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