You Want Fast Internet? 1Gbs Ul 1Gbs Dl

[gotlost]

You welling to pay 10,60 baht per month for 1 GBS up and down?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/09/13/chattanooga.broadband/index.html

[lomatopo]

I guess if you need really high speeds maybe Korea, Japan or Singapore are an option; not everyone can move to Chattanooga.

Seriously, even TRUE's 50 Mbps seems like overkill; you can fill a 2 TB HDD in less than 4 days, and download far more material than you could ever listen to, or watch. Now if you are going to pump 100 channels of HD down the pipe then these speeds make sense.

[Pib]

I like fast internet, but I'm not willing to pay 10,600Baht/$350 per month even if it is 1Gb/s, but that's just me. Not sure my web sites would pull much faster on my steam powered computer.

I'll just poke along on my TOT 4Mb @ 590 Baht per month DSL line (fastest available to my moobaan) until TOT decides to upgrade the DSLAMs to my moobaan; then I might be able to jump all the way up to something around 16Mb on a clear day if nobody else is logged on.

[Pib]

As internet speed technology marches on, at some point the speed will be so great and such overkill for the everyday user (maybe everyone) that we won't even talk about internet speed anymore. The only time we'll talk/complain about it is when the internet goes down...kinda like losing electricity. But our complaint will just be the internet went down for a while; not that the internet was slow. Not sure when that time will arrive but it's probably closer than what we think for some parts of the world and not to close in time for other parts. My moobaan will most likely be in the later.

[Tywais]

I'm satisfied with my current speeds, about 15Mbps but have seen better.

[Phil Conners]

I would argue that for a home user, unless you're in the "business" of downloading movies or software for resale, there are no practical purpose at this time for internet speeds beyond 8 MB/s.

[astral]

Not everyone wants to download files to store,

perhaps just to stream HD TV for immediate viewing?

Video on Demand, has been a buzzword for sometime, but never

reached fruition, as far as I know?

Maybe due to bandwidth restrictions, or strangled at birth by the

film producers?

I did google the subject briefly, but none of the articles gave

any idea of the bandwidth needed.

[Pib]

The article gives some bandwidth values. Appears the typical bandwidh requirement for one streaming HD channel is 16Mb with MPEG2 encoding and 8Mb for MPEG4 encoding. There also a couple of charts on the total bandwidth requirement for average or high use internet users assuming they are running one HD channel, 2 SD channels, VOIP, browsing, downloading files, etc.

http://www.icf.at/en/6000/how_much_bandwidth.html

[Phil Conners]

Not everyone wants to download files to store,

perhaps just to stream HD TV for immediate viewing?

Video on Demand, has been a buzzword for sometime, but never

reached fruition, as far as I know?

Maybe due to bandwidth restrictions, or strangled at birth by the

film producers?

I did google the subject briefly, but none of the articles gave

any idea of the bandwidth needed.

You could comfortably stream HD TV in 8 MB/s. (My statement of course assumes you actually get 8 MB/s, not like here where each connection is typically reduced to 50 KB/s or so.)

[gmac]

I'd be more than happy with my current 3MB if only 3BB would make it consistently available.