what really sucks is the HD/movie madness. personally, as it stands now, whatever the format, if you cannot push your F’n movie in 800megs or less, too friggin bad.

the internet should remain first and foremost
a communication, information and technology tool. NOT a surrogate backbone to push movies and/or mind-numbing **feature length HD advertisments**

if they want to push IPTV, movies and “premium” HD content, they should be doing it over their own dedicated backbones and stay OFF our internet.

(they save a ton of money by using the net
instead of a separate backbone.

by allowing the above to feed via the internet, lawyers at the RIAA/MPAA et al now think they have the right regulate *every piece of equipment* their coveted movies travels through.

-this of course, plays well with the politicians and corporate news because they have lost the ability to *control* public political opinion, what is “news” and by extension, what we *think* due to blogging, homegrown “news” sites and everything in between.

no doubt very soon, the net will be fractured
and regulated ad nauseum in the name of national security, terrorism, copyright law, and of course the greatest political and media trump card of all: saving all the “innocent children” from pr0n (and all those bazillions of baby-eating ebildoers lurking in a chatroom near you)

the Net was great until megalomaniacal corporations and their political stooges showed up..

somehow, i get the feeling BBS’s will make a “required” comeback in the years ahead just
so we can speak our minds like we do now..

’nuff said?

-s

/soundwash AADD mode

we lag by design. -due to our incrementalistic class-warfare /rollout marketing model that requires something “new & improved” every 6-8 months.

(planned obsolescence comes to mind too.)

it’s how they get us to buy the same crap
over and over and over again.

look at the CD-ROM speedgame -they could have just come out with 52x burners within 2-3 iterations of the tech. instead, we spent several years going from 2x to 4x, 8, ,12, 16, 24, 36, 48, 52x. -ditto for DVD and now blue-ray.

the media is the limiting factor, usually.

-you trying to tell me they only now
figured out how to make a blue laser?
-how long before UV lasers?

-heavens forbid should they introduce the holographic storage medium that was shelved years ago before it’s *time*

no doubt this HVD terabyte medium will start
at around 30-60gb with limited speeds and they’ll start the whole cycle all over again
rather than start us off at say 3tb and 1gb/s

(omg..they’d have nothing to fuel the end of year sales bonanza..better known as christmas…) :s

if you follow PC parts/pricing, you’ll find that normally, there are 4 price drops per year, supposedly to introduce new tech. -and are typically based around intel and amd’s speed roadmaps. (that model is now starting to erode)

the ISP speedgame is quite similar.

they cant offer to beat the “competition” if everyone comes out with the max speed in just 2 or 3 steps. they have 5 “media / speed packages” of the same crap re-arranged
25 different ways to sell to 10 demographics
and half the time the one you get depends on how slick the sales person is on the other end of the phone…(someone reword that better plz)

-when i surf, i rarely ever see my netmeter
go past 4-5mbs downspeed. average is 1-3mbs
and only peaks at 4-5mb when i hit youtube/liveleak type vid links. -regular browsing just isn’t that speed intensive.

i hit 10-16mb peaks only when downloading
ISO images, podcasts and *some* vids..

i posit that everything that will be “invented” already has been invented
and nothing shall be released before its
economically “time” do so.

(i bet those who have hi-level military
Skunkworks clearance are giggling right
about now)

anyway..

bottom line: tecnically, it’s a non-issue.
we are supposedly behind speedwise only because it is politically and monetarily profitable to do so.

-s

the end-all will be the NWO-VD format:

a holographic X-ray laser player that allows 100petabyte storage, projects your current carbon footprint high above your head and sterilizes the user all at the same time..
:p

Oh, sure, the point of presenting an article like this is to say how good it is in other countries and how backward we are here in America.

Maybe another way to look at is how many resources are devoted to the task, who are they and are they good at it. So, in France how many government agencies does it take to screw in a light bulb (or give cheap internet to all). I can tell you for sure that its a lot fewer in America but it won’t be for long if you get your way ud.

From my own experience, I don’t think his problem is bandwidth as much as it is latency. It sounds to me like he has a janky router. I bet if he got the router from his cable company rather than daisy chaining a router to a cable box his issue would go away.

That is just my suspicion, but I don’t know. I know I do similar activities without issue.

Finally an honest answer. So, watching yet another movie and playing children games. That’s what we need to be more productive and a reason to “catch up” up to EUs broadband rates. Yep, this is a total non-issue.

Well I have 15/1.5 now and if I stream a low def movie from netflix and try to online game my online gaming suffers. 6 computers in this house and my wife uses one to work from. Now whats it going to be like if I try and stream HD movies from at least two of those computers, which netflix allows. Heck what if I try and host an online game with some friends while my wife streams a HD movie. I realize what I already have is so much better than what was offered just a few years ago, but with the larger amount of streaming content available nowadays bigger pipes just make more sense.

I am going to look at that business level service mentioned above.

Good points. I’ve noticed more and more sites are optimizing for broadband even though there are many people without broadband.

My in-laws have cable strung 1/4 miles on either side, but can’t get the company to put it in front of their house. So they use dial-up.

Does anyone realize that Windows XP SP3 was close to a 300 MB d/l? Regular updates for Windows, Open Office, and even Firefox are mega size. A-V updates for AVG are usually in the 1-2 MB range, every day.

It becomes a disadvantage to be online if normal activities become prohibitive. And forget the idea that MS allows you to order a hard copy of SP3. That is only one. There are too many more.

… no one has said what you’d do with that much bandwidth at home.

No vision.

What would have happened to medicine if we never allowed surgeons to open a body. What would have happened if roads were restricted to 10 MPH and a load limit of one ton. What would have happened if the Catholic Church still retained the final word on scientific advancement.

Maybe video is the current main user of high speed bandwidth, but we don’t know about tomorrow.

I read the whole thread to this point and no one has said what you’d do with that much bandwidth at home. It’s very strange.

If you have the money, the phone company is more than willing to bring the DS3 right to where ever you are.

Oh, and thats not your property, you are just leasing it from the government in a forever lease arrangement. I am sorry you were mistaken and thought differently.

I find it disturbing that we agree. And everybody complaining is a bunch of whiny bitches.

Oh and that rumored japanese 100Mb, it is only available in select areas. This is just more of the fosstard-o-sphere faggot dance.

I was once talking with the people that do economic development in North Dakota – governments need to realize that high speed data is like the railroads of the late 1800′s – towns on the railroad prospered, towns that did not get railroad service floundered. The same thing will happen with countries and high speed Internet – countries that adopt and push it will prosper, countries that don’t will get left in the dust.