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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060331-6498.html > > "In the foreseeable future, having a 15 Mbps Internet capability is > irrelevant because the backbone doesn't transport at those speeds," he > told the conference attendees. Stephenson said that AT&T's field tests > have shown "no discernable difference" between AT&T's 1.5 Mbps service > and Comcast's 6 Mbps because the problem is not in the last mile but in > the backbone." > > > > Is this something held generally true in the US, or is it just pointed > hair-talk? Sounds like "nobody should need more than 640kb of memory" > all over again. > > I can definately see a difference between 2 meg, 8 meg and even faster, > even when web browsing, especially transferring large pictures when > running gallery or alike. When I load www.cnn.com with 130ms latency I > get over 1 megabit/s and that's transatlantic with a lot of small > objects to fetch. Most major newspapers here in Sweden will load at 5-10 > megabit/s for me, and downloading streaming content (www.youtube.com) > will easily download at 10-20 megabit/s if bw is available. flickr.com > around a couple of megabits/s. (all measured with task-manager in XP, > very scientific :P) > > I can relate to there being a sweetspot around 1.5-3 megs/s when larger > speed doesn't really give you a whole lot of more experience with > webbrowsing, but the more people will start to use services like > youtube.com, the more bw they will need at their local pipe and of > course backbone should be non-blocking or close to it... > Sounds like FUD to me... Perhaps trying to downplay the push to FIOS????? - -- ========= bep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFELiK/E1XcgMgrtyYRAuxsAKDbn3HfYeEw7aSESqnniC1B23KENACdHkXc Bcxm4o1CnWKXkpMvoM7qsno= =Xg6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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