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Name: IronMan
Yes, I want one. :)
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.
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"My adsl connection is 1500 x 256 mega bits per second. Someone made a bollox of that story mate."
Who is your ISP?
Over here (US) the fastest home broadband that people have from providers like Verizon is FiOS and it doesn't even exceed 30Mbps/5Mbps (megabits per second) down & up respectively. How you are getting 1500Mbps/256Mbps (megabits per second) is something you need to elaborate.
I suspect you are getting your numbers mixed up.
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"Mine is 1500 megabits not 1500 megabytes per second"
I know & that is why it all seem unreal to me. Just to put things in perspective. I have a 3Mbps (megabits per second) down & 512kbps (kilobits per second) up DSL & my sustained download speeds is in the 300+ KBps (kilobytes per second) range - which makes sense.
With a 1500Mbps (megabits per second) down connection that you are claiming, your sustained download speeds should be somewhere in the region of 187,000+ KBps (kilobytes per second) or more appropriately 187.5 MBps (megabytes per second) which would mean that you could have downloaded the same 30-second, 300-megabyte television commercial that was referred to in the Comcast press release in under two seconds & a 700MB DVDRip is fully downloaded in under five seconds with such a connection.
That to me is a lightning fast downstream, hence the reason why I said you must be getting your figures all mixed up.
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Whoops, I have made a complete balls up of this. I really ought to get some sleep.
It's 1500 kilobits per second not megabits.
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Just wondering ... would the download speed of 150 megabits per second be too fast for current computers to handle?
i_XpUser
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too fast for the hard drive to handle....
for the most part cable modems are capable of going a lot faster than your connection from your isp allows anyway. I only have a 15Mbps downstream but I'm sure if I had a 30Mbps one the cable modem would handle it fine.
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"... would the download speed of 150 megabits per second be too fast for current computers to handle?"
not for the computer, but most likely for the common 100 mbps NIC :-)
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
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I would say that todays computers ARE able of handling those speeds. Read the link I posted above. There is ongoing testing in Korea at those speeds.
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