Source: http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1433
I guess they are about to get 8mbps in Austrailia for $29
and I've heard that people in Japan have full fast ethernet connections or something (100mbits!) as their consumer broadband connections.
I wish the broadband carriers in the United States would start competing with each other a little more - considering the bottom has fallen out of the bandwidth market recently.
I know bandwidth can be had for as low as $10/megabit for relatively low commitments. I would think large broadband ISP's could work some great deals figuring they have primarly eyeball/pull traffic.
The company I use (@Home->Comcast->Attbi->Comcast{again}) raised the bar a little when they recently doubled their data rates from 1.5mbps to 3.0mbps down... (for about $55-65 a month) but when you do the math at what bandwidth USED to cost at wholesale (about 10 times more) a couple years ago and figure most internet upstream/downstream plans are still about the same.... it just seems like a rip off.
Or in the very least, another area where Google may position into.
Especially since they'll have all that fiber for their rumored upcoming VoIP venture... or hmm... maybe they DO plan to start offering broadband with this fiber.
Anyway... how much do you pay monthly and what is your upstream/downstream?
I guess they are about to get 8mbps in Austrailia for $29
and I've heard that people in Japan have full fast ethernet connections or something (100mbits!) as their consumer broadband connections.
I wish the broadband carriers in the United States would start competing with each other a little more - considering the bottom has fallen out of the bandwidth market recently.
I know bandwidth can be had for as low as $10/megabit for relatively low commitments. I would think large broadband ISP's could work some great deals figuring they have primarly eyeball/pull traffic.
The company I use (@Home->Comcast->Attbi->Comcast{again}) raised the bar a little when they recently doubled their data rates from 1.5mbps to 3.0mbps down... (for about $55-65 a month) but when you do the math at what bandwidth USED to cost at wholesale (about 10 times more) a couple years ago and figure most internet upstream/downstream plans are still about the same.... it just seems like a rip off.
Or in the very least, another area where Google may position into.
Especially since they'll have all that fiber for their rumored upcoming VoIP venture... or hmm... maybe they DO plan to start offering broadband with this fiber.
Anyway... how much do you pay monthly and what is your upstream/downstream?
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