30-50 Mbps
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- DutchBoy
Dutch cablecompany UPC is currently testing speeds up to 30-50 Mbps. They want to make this available to the market asap. It doesn't need new glassfibre cables to your frontdoor, so they say.
They claim you could download a DVD-movie of about 7 Gb in about half an hour.
But it makes me wonder, does this make sense? I mean most servers do not provide these speeds or do they?? for instance archive.org or quicktime trailers..
anyone got any experience with this sort of superhighspeed interwebsurfing???
Dutch article here:
http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=4308…
(not found english version yet)..
- jox0
I couldn't translate much from the article, although the article links below it caught my interest:
"Overig nieuws...
'90 procent homo's stemt op Kerry' "lol - what does that mean?
- DutchBoy0
that 90% of jox' gay friends vote for Kerry.
:D
- jox0
that's what I thought!!
*adds "fluent in dutch" to resume
- MLVR0
In Stockholm two ISPs are offering 26mbps over the phone lines. I don't really care though since I have 100mbps fibre in my apartment :-)
- MLVR0
but 7gig in
- jox0
fucker! :P
I "fell" for the 26 mbit (Scream right?) offer a few months back, and I'm nowhere near those number. I've done TP-tests a couppla times and I've never been over 6. Sucks major ass, especially since the agreement says "up to..26" which basically allows them to give me 0.5 mbit without getting any legal actions against them.
- MLVR0
You're the first one I've heard whining about 6Mbits haha. But yeah it all depends on your location. Distance to the telephone station. But if you can't reach better speeds than any of their other services (ADSL etc) you shouldn't pay more than for that service, right?
- MLVR0
Hmm... now i see that you wrote MBPS. (i were talking about mbits in my posts). however. 7gig = 7000mb, right? and at a download speed of 50mbps it shouldn't take more than 140 secs to download 7000mb.. something is not right. Please keep me updated...
- jox0
also, for you to download in 50 mbits per second forces the "giver" to upload in 50 mbits - doesn't really matter how fast you are if the other one is slow. (which was what my ex girlfriend said when she broke up, by the way)
- DutchBoy0
30Mbps (mind the spelling and capitalization) means 30 megaBITs p.sec.
30 megabits is as much as 3.75 megabytes per second..
3.75*60(secs)*30(mins)= 6,750 megabytes per half hour.
almost 7,000 indeed.
but then i still did not get an answer; even if you actually get these speeds are they of any use on the interweb? or is it only interesting to swap huge files with your neighbour??
- jox0
Why don't we leave it to the pro's, huh J? Surely she must know.
- DutchBoy0
nooooooo!!! i hate that bitch!!
- jox0
She's TEH HAUTE!
- DutchBoy0
i think i really hurt her though since she never ever posts here anymore..
- MLVR0
aha, thought mbps = mb per sec. Well, I've downloaded movies on DC++ at 4mb/s. And from ftps it can be even faster but most common is that the speed is set by the sender so i don't really use my bandwidth but i can always leech from 10 people with same speed if i want to use the most of it.