Comcast Executive Insists Americans Don’t Really Need Google Fiber-Like Speeds
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We can't use 1gbps internet? I'll find a way.
i want 10gbps internet! go die comcast!
[QUOTE=Kirad;40928066]I don't think you understand. It's Mega BITS. Not bytes. So I download at a constant of about 300 kb/s.[/QUOTE]
Yeah and he's talking about kbits probably. Australian net is trash.
when will people in my country realize that the path to profit lies ahead, not behind
Jeez, I remember back when I had comcast, I used to get throttled daily. It was also pretty normal for me to get a top speed of 40 kb/s on downloads. Fucking worse than dial-up. Coupled with DNS blocking, and Port Blocking.
Fuck Comcast.
[QUOTE=MIPS;40929476]1700 minutes, Telus.
1700 fucking minutes to upload a 300mb video to Youtube.[/QUOTE]
0.02 mbps upload?
[QUOTE=MIPS;40929476]1700 minutes, Telus.
1700 fucking minutes to upload a 300mb video to Youtube.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2757397878.png[/img]
I can see the Telus building from my house.
you people are slightly mad over your super huge download speeds while im still stuck with 122 KB As download speed
:v
[QUOTE=Fhenexx;40921161]If he's anything like me, he didn't. I get even less than that.
[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2755706703.png[/IMG]
At least I still don't have dial-up like some poor saps around here. I still count myself lucky.[/QUOTE]Oh, I know. This was the fastest connection I've had out of ten tests, most were around your speed.
[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2757440625.png[/IMG]
9.94Mb/s is only slightly better than I got on DSL, but waaay cheaper. There's a 30GB data cap, though. :/
It's great that people are actually getting Google Fiber. The more they expand the more pressure will be put on other companies to come up with a more valuable product. Sure they will still have the majority of the market because of the smaller less accessible areas of the country, but Google is going right for the throat by opening shop in large cities.
Competition is great.
It's great that google is offering such a great product, but at the same time, I wouldn't exactly like them having a monopoly. :v:
[QUOTE=TheTalon;40922830]Download speeds aren't even what I want. I want low pings. I even got DSL and hooked it up right beside my cable modem just to play games online since my cable ISP is so bad[/QUOTE]
I just switched ISPs, and the new one has such a good network it's silly. The old ISP had like 6-7 hops to Google (for example) while the new one has just 2, The RTT has gone from like 200ms down to 40ms.
And they're running IPv6 natively, which ends up being even faster (The reason being that IPv4 has a cheksum that's validated by routers, while IPv6 doesn't, so v6 routers can spend less time routing packets)
Edit: Oh, and they run a bunch of game servers (and lease out servers for hosts), I'm seeing <40ms RTT to all the servers that fit in the top of the Steam server list.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;40932579]I get 70kb/s.
I was gonna take a speedtest, but the page took too long to load.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://puu.sh/3a7qd.png[/img]
renegadecop - at&t customer
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;40919981]This is what we said when we had dial-up. "Who needs that much speed? All we need to do is have simple text exchanges. What could we possible do with more than that?"
Then a few decades later we have instant streaming movies and games at a moment's notice. What will come from Gbps lines? I have no idea, I can't predict the future. But whatever it is, it will be fucking [I]awesome.[/I][/QUOTE]
Higher and higher bandwidths, if accompanied by lower and lower latencies between servers, could allow for [I]proper[/I] cloud-based processing. Any internet device with at least enough processing power to stream high definition video could theoretically play any game or handle any application, since all the processing could be done off-site, with only the audio-visual output being streamed to the device. Latency will be the big player here for things like games, but for other intensive programs where a few extra milliseconds of delay won't be a very important factor, increasing our bandwidth by such a huge margin could open up some really incredible possibilities. Imagine being able to run the Adobe suite or 3DSmax from a cheap netbook.
You see this stuff in SciFi movies: tiny little devices that seem capable of incredible feats of processing. Well, if the bulk of the work is being done by off-site supercomputers, with only the input/output being transfered the two machines, then it becomes a bit more believable!
[QUOTE=Del91;40932093]It's great that google is offering such a great product, but at the same time, I wouldn't exactly like them having a monopoly. :v:[/QUOTE]
It's not like that's nothing new to the high speed internet world. Essentially, every region has only a small handful of providers to choose from, or sometimes only one. I live in Saint Louis, which is a pretty major city, and I have a choice between [I]two[/I]. Both of them know that I have to be stuck with one of them, and both of them offer absolutely shit service because I have no other option to deal with it. Expensive data plans, frequent dowtimes and interruptions, and the worst, [I]the absolute worst[/I] customer service I have [B]ever[/B] seen.
I've been with Charter Communications the past few years, and I have never, not one single time, called their customer support department without getting screaming mad at how rude and unhelpful they are. Twice have I had to file Better Business Bereau complaints about their blatant theft. Last year, I found out that they had been charging me for a high definition cable television package for over a year. Not only did I never order this service, I don't even have a fuckin' TV. When I called them about it, they told me that they would not refund me, and worse, they would not stop charging me. Why? Because I needed to tell them I didn't want to pay for television service before they started charging me without my permission. Seriously. Their words. In order for them to not steal from me, they said, I had to have precognitive abilities in order to prevent them from doing so before they started. I wish I were exaggerating here. Had to get the BBB involved on that one.
Even just calling to pay a damn bill is an exercise in patience that would make Gandhi punch the wall. I'd switch service providers, but the only other option is the same story.
When Google finally comes to this city, Charter and AT&T are going to have to completely overhaul their business model if they'll want to hold on to even a fraction of their customer base.
[quote] most U.S. homes have routers that can’t support the speed already available to the home[/quote]
[b]MY FUCKING ASS[/b] most of us don't have routers that can't support those speeds. I did half a decade ago, [b]WIRELESSLY[/b].
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Well, at least it was advertised being able to.
I don't a toilet to take a shit, but it's nice.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;40933003][b]MY FUCKING ASS[/b] most of us don't have routers that can't support those speeds. I did half a decade ago, [b]WIRELESSLY[/b].
[editline]7th June 2013[/editline]
Well, at least it was advertised being able to.[/QUOTE]
Routing speed is different to stuff like wireless speed or what the switch can do (The switch for example should all be done in hardware, never touching the software layer), my router has 300Mbps WiFi and a gigabit switch built in but I doubt it could work properly with a 100Mbps WAN link, etc.
Used to have 30 down AND up, then we switched to Comcast...
not a happy ending...
[QUOTE=Chaoss86;40920276]You guys with your 1Gbps speeds, and here I am in England stuck with these speeds
[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2755533610.png[/IMG]
Why can't Google come to the UK and do something about our internet speeds?[/QUOTE]
You think your speeds are bad? Mine are fucking terrible. And I PAY for this molasses-in-an-igloo shit.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TEr9FhQ.png[/IMG]
And it took a whole picosecond to load the page! What a ripoff.
I'll just leave this here.
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/2758619624.png[/img]
I'm paying for 60 mb/s and I'm only getting 15 mb/s
I need to get a router with better range.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;40922957]I hate you.
I can ping a city 20 miles away and get 150ms, but with DSL I can ping London and get 120ms. I Don't understand how my cable provider can be so bad about it, but looking at the telephone pole outside and where everyone's hooked up, it's just a tangled mess. It looks like christmas lights after you've pulled them out of a box[/QUOTE]
lol i was just looking at the pole that everyone around my house is hooked up to, then i looked up at the bigass tree limb thats going to come down and guillotine all 6 lines, glad my house is hooked up from a different pole
they litterally hooked up 6 houses from a pole thats underneath a tree, half the lines run through the tree, the other half are under one big branch and if anything happens to the tree, its all comming down
[editline]7th June 2013[/editline]
also the node for my entire area is always getting hit by some dumb drunk because they put it on a corner of a busy intersection
I'm glad I get google fiber the 21st.
Right now my two choices here are AT&T or Comcast. Google Fiber where are you when I need you the most?
[editline]7th June 2013[/editline]
Fuck California. Back in Mass I had Verizon FIOS which was the shit.
why are business execs so old and stubborn
jfc, get with the times, plan for the future
i understand that profit is priority but innovation leads to profit
/rantover
We had Comcast for 10 years, and there were numerous headaches along the way.....still better than that piece of shit Prodigy dial-up before that though. Last year we decided to get AT&T U-Verse and I was kind of dreading it because I had seen so many terrible reviews online from around the U.S. It certainly depends on the city, but I'm about 30 miles from Knoxville, Tn in a little podunk town and I'm pleasantly surprised with the service we've gotten over the past year or so (get around 12-13 mb/s). Apparently Verizon FIOS has just arrived in my small town too, so there's another option besides Comcast.
what sort of people are these executives going to for these statistics
"do you want faster internet?"
"FUCK no why would I want that"
Fine with my speeds, but 300(400 at the next package)gb bandwidth is awful
[QUOTE=Joeyl10;40942151]what sort of people are these executives going to for these statistics"do you want faster internet?""FUCK no why would I want that"[/QUOTE] Maybe something more along the lines "would you want to pay more for faster internet"
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