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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 - 15:05 Quote |
Ah, the old 56k - I miss that modem noise! Great soundtrack too, name that tune ... |
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 - 16:35 Quote |
At least you knew where you were with an acoustic coupler........ "Who needs more than 300 baud " as the man said |
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2012 - 00:00 Quote |
Alas we can but dream about Google doing that on this side of the pond. *Grant dreams away...* |
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Posted: 10th Aug 2012 - 12:36 Quote |
Mmmmmm. interesting. Google putting fiber in the ground? where? well not quite worldwide but Kansas city. Probably allong the yellow brick road? You have to preregister and if there are enough takers then they will connect you up. Seems from the website you are paying for the fibre to go in and sharing the costs with your neighbours. In the UK BT is doing this for free its called Fibre to the cabinet. FTC. not sure if the fibre is going all the way the to the Kansas house or same as UK, just to the cabinet. Interesting that its not a telecoms provider doing it in US or is it? perhaps Google are just reselling a US telecom service much like the BT resellers in the UK.
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Posted: 10th Aug 2012 - 15:49 Quote |
What I don't get about all of this is whether standard hard drives would even be able to cope with those speeds? Surely write speed on the average hard drive is less than 1GB p/s? |
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Posted: 10th Aug 2012 - 16:08 Quote |
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What I don't get about all of this is whether standard hard drives would even be able to cope with those speeds? Surely write speed on the average hard drive is less than 1GB p/s?
Of course SSD (solid state drives) have much higher throughput rates, consumer grade ones should be able to hit 3 GB/s. |
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| Posted: 10th Aug 2012 - 17:14 Quote | |
I read about it a few days ago, the best part is the proposed pricing which is reported to be $120 per month, and includes some TV too G is right though, disks are a lot slower, even SSD's I WANT IT I've 60Mb at home now with virgin and it seems just about as fast as it needs to be, I guess that's what people said when we were hearing the noises at the start of the video :-) |
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Posted: 10th Aug 2012 - 17:59 Quote |
Aren't HDD/SSDs rated in megabytes per second or gigabyes per second, wheras broadband/fibre is in megabits per second or gigabits per second? |
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