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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

If they are going to spend a bunch of money on stimulus, I'd love to see some of it be on expanding the reach and speed of broadband.  With that said, the industry has already been given all kinds of incentives and has basically screwed everyone, so it would have to be done in a manner that requires performance.

 

 

From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:07 PM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] 1 GB/s cable modems soon?

 

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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