Affordable Gigabit Internet

[jdc2000]

Link:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...ntcmp=features

[SuperSparks]

Sign me up

London isn't that much of a detour in the cabling route, after all

[Train]

Me first> after all I am closer.

[fink]

I'll go for it too please. Although, as they say, for the kind of things I use my PC for, which is really a lot of reading news, info, sports, blogs, cats etc I doubt I'd really be able to take advantage of that kind of speed. As it is now with my average 15-20 Mbps speeds I already rarely have any buffering when I watch streaming media and when I do it's at the other end somewhere anyway.

[Train]

Had to get a new modem the old SB5120 started doing a reboot on its own. 5.5 years of good service it gave me.

[maxximilian]

You can never have too much speed....but as noted in the article, you are still at the mercy of internet servers. How many out there on the 15-20 hop routes are bottlenecks.....and not able to serve up the bits as fast as you can take them. Even with my pokey 4-5 Mbps (powerboost to 10Mbps at start).....it's pretty rare that the stuff arrives at that speed. Bad infrastructure in my area with lots of old equipment. Tracert always shows a lag at nearby hops.

[maxximilian]

How odd the timing.....just got a letter from Comcast/Xfinity that they are sending me a new modem since their records show mine is old. Turns out I should be getting 8-12 Mbps and the old modem might be part of the problem....

I'll see when it arrives....

Weird though.........maybe they saw my comment yesterday....