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150031 2003-06-05 11:12:00 Wired Article (www.wired.com) describing net connection speeds up to 6000 times faster than current TCP protocol can handle...

Dude... (whispered in an awed tone)
flying_green_leprachaun (1767)
150032 2003-06-05 11:41:00 Nother one, same topic, from New Scientist (www.newscientist.com) flying_green_leprachaun (1767)
150033 2003-06-05 13:17:00 :-O Chilling_Silently (228)
150034 2003-06-05 21:07:00 yeah but i wouldn't expect it for a while! i mean doing a software upgrade at telecom would be a huge problem, especially when considering they are still charging $30 a month for 128kb

oh and remember, bandwidth is expensive!!!, lol lets watch the 10gb limit of js starter go down!!!!!!

- David
p.s. sorry to be so cynical ;) but i've seen this sort of stuff too many times.
DangerousDave (697)
150035 2003-06-06 00:00:00 yeah i saw this so many times...

yeah i just wonder when will those package going down?????

hmmm i am so bored. of reading this :-(

jacky
jackyht (3685)
150036 2003-06-06 02:08:00 Of course, as soon as more than one transmitter and one receiver uses this, the rate will drop very quickly. And their example of the speed was a factor of 3X the speed. Hardly a revolutionary improvement.

Bandwidth will always cost. Every way of making things go faster comes down to greedy people trying various tricks to get more than their fair share of the available resource.
Graham L (2)
150037 2003-06-06 02:53:00 Precisely!
I propose a new internet, everbody is linked via Cat6 cable on 100MBPS connections!

I will call it :
Internet³

And you know what... I'll start it from me bedroom.. you know where it'll likely end... my bedroom, none of my neighbours are computer literate, and I cant afford a cable to the end of the street! ;-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
150038 2003-06-06 03:08:00 > Precisely!
> I propose a new internet, everbody is linked via Cat6
> cable on 100MBPS connections!
>
> I will call it :
> Internet³
>
> And you know what... I'll start it from me bedroom..
> you know where it'll likely end... my bedroom, none
> of my neighbours are computer literate, and I cant
> afford a cable to the end of the street! ;-)


Heh heh, it'd have to be called Internet 1.5 as with speeds like that you couldn't even join Internet2 (You need at least an OC12)
BIFF (1)
150039 2003-06-06 03:14:00 > Heh heh, it'd have to be called Internet 1.5 as with
> speeds like that you couldn't even join Internet2
> (You need at least an OC12)
>

Really?

Oh well.. Lets just hope nobody else has copyright to the idea :p
Chilling_Silently (228)
150040 2003-06-06 05:41:00 > Precisely!
> I propose a new internet, everbody is linked via Cat6
> cable on 100MBPS connections!

Thats interesting actually. Have you heard of Citylink? They are a company in Wellington and they are connecting a lot of businesses down there with Cat5 (afaik) cable. Good for internet access and B2B.
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