[an0n]

"For instance if you live within two kilometres of a central exchange you can have up to 24 megabits to your home.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3900367.stm

[Fineus]

The question that's formost on my mnid.

How much?

[an0n]

The question that should be foremost in your mind is: How much is that house 3 doors down from the exchange?

[Fineus]

Ahh, if only I knew where my local exchange actually was - I don't suppose there's any way of finding out online?

At least I have DSL and a respectable enough connection right now. 24 mega bites though? Damn....

[Falcon]

Nonetheless, ADSL over ageing copper is not necessarily the infrastructure you would want to start with.

You've got to wire every street, every county, every nation if you decide to go that route. And it's a long-term commitment as well

[Turnsky]

[SIZE=8]WANT[/SIZE]

[an0n]

No, fool:

[size=9]NEEEEEEED[/color][/size]

[Thorn]

[size=8]REQUIRED FOR MY SURVIVAL[/size]

[vyper]

It's a sweet love cable baby...

[Fineus]

Originally posted by an0n
The question that should be foremost in your mind is: How much is that house 3 doors down from the exchange?

Alright. :thepimp:

After a little investigation - I'm about 1 to 1.5KM from my nearest ADSL exchange. Well within their high-level limit.

Glee.

[an0n]

Now all you need is about £300/month to pay for the ****ing thing.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
24 mega bites though? Damn....

remember, that's mega bits not bytes. 24 mbits = 3 mbytes

[SadisticSid]

Local transmission speeds have never been much of a problem, it's the *capacity* of broadband companies which will make this a practical impossibility within the next five years. You'd need to increase that by at least a factor of 10 to make reliable 24Mbit speeds available.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Stealth
remember, that's mega bits not bytes. 24 mbits = 3 mbytes

Faster than my current speed though, by a hell of a long shot.

[Stealth]

oh yeah!  a hell of a lot faster than mine too  

i was just saying

[Stealth]

Originally posted by SadisticSid
Local transmission speeds have never been much of a problem, it's the *capacity* of broadband companies which will make this a practical impossibility within the next five years. You'd need to increase that by at least a factor of 10 to make reliable 24Mbit speeds available.

A cable modem is capable of delivering up to 30 to 40 Mbps of data on one 6 MHz cable channel. This is almost 500 times faster than a 56 Kbps modem.

many cable internet companies are promising speeds very close to what i mentioned above in the next few years

[Cyker]

It's nice, but I'd still rather have a 2.6GB ATM-over-fibre connected to my house

A guy can dream....

Then again I'd need at least 2TB's worth of storage to keep up

[wolfdog]

Oehw.. that's about 5 times faster than what I have now... and since the exchange point is about 300m away from my front-door I Really hope it's gonna get to Holland Too

But.... what about the upstream..??

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by Stealth


A cable modem is capable of delivering up to 30 to 40 Mbps of data on one 6 MHz cable channel. This is almost 500 times faster than a 56 Kbps modem.

many cable internet companies are promising speeds very close to what i mentioned above in the next few years

That's my point - I think the fastest consumer cable in the world is 9Mbit right now, but that's a small operation. If everyone else could make the jump from (mostly) 3Mbit to 24Mbit without one hell of an investment in extra capacity I'd be very surprised. The transmission medium has never really been a bottleneck; millions of homes in the UK at least have access to cable, for instance.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stealth


remember, that's mega bits not bytes. 24 mbits = 3 mbytes

[color=66ff00]Yeah that was one of the mistakes I made when I first heard about ADSL.

24Mb is hella fast, 24MB is ex-plus-alpha fast.
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