[quote]Across the world, a handful of cities are now offering 1Gbps connections, such as Kansas in the US, which is part of a pilot by the internet giant Google.[/quote]
So, Kansas is a city now?
[QUOTE=Mad Chatter;38338543]So, Kansas is a city now?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri[/url]
1 GB/s?
Here in Australia, we're lucky if we get 1 MB/s.
I remember being shocked coming home downloading games on STEAM all day and seeing the peak download rate at 7 MB/s.
It never reached that rate ever again.
[QUOTE=Mr. Tripp;38338645]
I remember being shocked coming home downloading games on STEAM all day and seeing the peak download rate at 7 MB/s.
It never reached that rate ever again.[/QUOTE]
Spoiler, [sp]it's a known glitch[/sp]
[QUOTE] 20 gigabits of data - the equivalent of 20 movies - every second.[/QUOTE]
Bits != Bytes
[QUOTE=11am;38338983]Bits != Bytes[/QUOTE]
1 movie != 1GB
But yes, true enough. It's about 2.9 movies a second.
10 Mbit ~ 1MB/s
100 Mbit ~ 10MB/s
1 Gbit ~ 100MB/s
10 Gbit ~ 1GB/s
20 Gbit ~ 2GB/s
You can say all you want about dividing by 8, but that's not what the practical results really show.
1 movie is still generally measured as 700MB. 3x700 = 2.1GB
I don't want faster internet for 1% of the country, I want consistent internet across it.
My mates should not get upwards of 1Mb/s, whereas I get less than 300kB/s.
[QUOTE=Mr. Tripp;38338645]1 GB/s?
Here in Australia, we're lucky if we get 1 MB/s.
I remember being shocked coming home downloading games on STEAM all day and seeing the peak download rate at 7 MB/s.
It never reached that rate ever again.[/QUOTE]
I had 50kb looong ago in my house.
Then it changed to 300kb max speed with some surprise hikes of 400, 500kb every blue moon, and now that the line had some problems, its back to 200kb top speed (2.1mb or something) and somehow, it fixed the stutters by itself even though it still had some after changing the speed...
Then my aunt had 30mb, which I had no idea whatsoever until she bought a router with wireless, I tried it, and then I was downloading whole games in 10 mins on Steam at a rate of 3.5mb/s.
I cream myself whenever I download anything now, and it isn't even the fastest around.
Damnit why isn't my desktop there and why does it not have 1tb hdrives...
[editline]6th November 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;38343537]I don't want faster internet for 1% of the country, I want consistent internet across it.
My mates should not get upwards of 1Mb/s, whereas I get less than 300kB/s.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that because of your region?
For example, I live in the middle of nowhere. Well, not exactly the middle of nowhere, but its a secondary road with no exit where only 2 families live.
We can only get 3mb packages and we can't even get that full speed, it stays at 2. We also can't get TV by cable, so we need a dish.
But if you go down the road and turn right to the main road, they get every kind of cable TV, internet and anything else one can get.
Its not even a big difference in distance, its like 200 meters or something...
Sometimes, some parts of a town don't get the same services as others. I have 2mb, and my aunt has 30, and its the same town.
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;38343663]I had 50kb looong ago in my house.
Then it changed to 300kb max speed with some surprise hikes of 400, 500kb every blue moon, and now that the line had some problems, its back to 200kb top speed (2.1mb or something) and somehow, it fixed the stutters by itself even though it still had some after changing the speed...
Then my aunt had 30mb, which I had no idea whatsoever until she bought a router with wireless, I tried it, and then I was downloading whole games in 10 mins on Steam at a rate of 3.5mb/s.
I cream myself whenever I download anything now, and it isn't even the fastest around.
Damnit why isn't my desktop there and why does it not have 1tb hdrives...
[editline]6th November 2012[/editline]
Isn't that because of your region?
For example, I live in the middle of nowhere. Well, not exactly the middle of nowhere, but its a secondary road with no exit where only 2 families live.
We can only get 3mb packages and we can't even get that full speed, it stays at 2. We also can't get TV by cable, so we need a dish.
But if you go down the road and turn right to the main road, they get every kind of cable TV, internet and anything else one can get.
Its not even a big difference in distance, its like 200 meters or something...
Sometimes, some parts of a town don't get the same services as others. I have 2mb, and my aunt has 30, and its the same town.[/QUOTE]
It's because of the road I live on.
They can't upgrade it because there's only one road in and out. So if they tore it up to change it, no one could get to work.
It was cutting edge when the house was built, 10 years ago, now it's atrocious and the main reason I want to move out.
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