Are we ready for 10 Mbps ?

[tarun.sonania]

What speed do you want ? Ask me and i will say 10 Mbps if you have. But I do wonder does 'browsing' need a higher speed then say 1 Mbps or 2 or 3 ? I think the most common thing people do are (in order)

Browsing
Email
Upload/Download
Other (terminal services, Telnet)

And the last three do benefit from higher speed (and browsing in cases where the pages are loaded with heavy images). But day to day 'browsing' when does one stop to notice no difference inspite of increasing speed ?

I had 1 Mbps and a week back moved to 2 Mbps. I do notice some difference in browsing but i use it mostly for teminal services and citrix access.

Broadband changes the way people use the internet. When I was on 56k I used it predominantly to browse. When I went to 512k I started to access online video a lot more. Before broadband, it simply wasn't feasible to look at a lot of video. Now I find I'm tapping my fnigers waiting for video to download on broadband. I would love to have 10Mb if only to see how I might use it in ways I didn't even realise I might.

[Chrysalis]

If you get a browser such as opera that shows the speed at bottom and combine with something like netlimiter that has a graph you can see where browsing spikes, for me I rarely see spikes above 512kbit speeds when browsing simply because it is usually loading loads of small images rather then 1 file. Of course the avg user also tends to download small files on occasion such as pdf documents and software patches so these benefit from the higher speeds. When it comes to 10mbit the main benefiters will be multi user environments and people who download large files and/or streaming.

[tarun.sonania]

so true, i remember i used to work over terminal services with 56k once and it was nightmare . Watching video, playing online games sort of things have picked on with broadband availability. Yet browsing back then and today is still one of the most popular use of internet.
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Oops didn't realize i posted this in wrong forum, thanks for moving it guys.

If 10 Mpbs doesn't sound interesting how does 1 exobit sound to anyone ? thats 1 with 18 zeros.
http://news.com.com/Powerline:+The+f..._3-226514.html (quite an old article, upon digging i found out that Media Fusion went bust)

But upto 52 Mbps appears to be within reach.

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/specials/...9115735,00.htm

Would be rather pointless for me as I mainly use the internet for messenger and browsing.

It's a bit like the whole 'my car can go faster than yours' thing, which I don't understand because it's unlikely that people are going to go much over 80mph on a motorway, maximum 100 I'd guess.

[bmxbandit]

at the moment, download speed is plenty fast enough for me (even downloading large videos... but i guess i'm quite patient!)

i'd like to have a faster upload though, 1mbit either way would be excellent for me at the moment...

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by bmxbandit

at the moment, download speed is plenty fast enough for me (even downloading large videos... but i guess i'm quite patient!)

i'd like to have a faster upload though, 1mbit either way would be excellent for me at the moment...

Same here, whilst any extra speed is always welcome, having a better upload speed would make a huge impact.

[tarun.sonania]

Originally Posted by Diamond

Would be rather pointless for me as I mainly use the internet for messenger and browsing.

It's a bit like the whole 'my car can go faster than yours' thing, which I don't understand because it's unlikely that people are going to go much over 80mph on a motorway, maximum 100 I'd guess.

Thats an interesting comparision. As these day any average car is reliable, comes with adequate speed (100 mph) and is affordable. So even if one can afford a ferrari (topping 200-300 mph), one is likely to buy an average car as the infrastructure (roads, safety) is not yet ready yet.

[downquark1]

I'd rather have an upload boost atm.

[zoombini]

I don't necessarily want it faster, we just want more of it

More upload, more download & more free pron ;D

[Chrysalis]

I would probably rather have increased upload over more download speed also. I feel 2mbit is the comfort speed zone which is fine for my needs.

[DocDutch]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I would probably rather have increased upload over more download speed also. I feel 2mbit is the comfort speed zone which is fine for my needs.

I totally agree with you there... most people that I know back in Holland have uploads of up to 1 meg and before any1 asks they have a 1024kbs upload proper. so if something like that could be done in the UK then I would be more then happy to stay on a 2mbit cable connection myself.

[ntluser]

I'm ready for 10Mbps so long as it's 5Mbps download and 5Mbps upload.

It would help too if it was dirt cheap so that some of the slower web-sites I access could have it and I wouldn't spend ages waiting for it to appear on my screen.

Mind you you'll probably need a PC with a 10GHz+ processor to keep up with it!!

[Millay]

It think wer are loosing site f the future

I read somewhere that we are all ging to need around 35mbps download sppeds in the future, as it wont just be our computer using the data connection, but if BT has there way, we will be getting telly through the broadband ocnnection, telephone, internet access. radio and anything else they can push down the pipe.

I do also beleive this will be perfectly workable over exsisting copper cables... rember when 2mbps was as fast as adsl was gonna work...

Give me a synchronose service of 1mbit plus and i will be happy....

[jtwn]

Hmm.

If i had it that fast, I'd host a game server when needed, host ventrilo when needed, 'share' 'stuff' more , actually able to send files to people as fast as I download it off servers.