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LAN Party Forums => FITES News => Started by: sully! on June 17, 2011, 07:05:20 PM
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Today, attendees at the NCTA Conference in Chicago got a glimpse at the future as Brian Roberts demonstrated some of the fastest broadband speeds and shared our next-generation television experience with them.
Brian downloaded the current season of "30 Rock" for the audience in about a minute and a half using the first ever 1 Gbps broadband speed download over a production HFC network. And for those of you who were doing the math, the current season of "30 Rock" has 23 episodes with a total run time of almost nine hours. Our engineers worked with our local Chicago system and teams at Cisco and Ookla to create and deliver this demonstration of the future of broadband.
Read More: http://blog.comcast.com/2011/06/comcast-ceo-brian-robert-demonstrates-1gbps-speed-broadband-connection-and-next-generation-video-pro.html (http://blog.comcast.com/2011/06/comcast-ceo-brian-robert-demonstrates-1gbps-speed-broadband-connection-and-next-generation-video-pro.html)
One Gbps internet demonstration begins at 14:30.
Brian Roberts Demos 1Gbps Speed Broadband Connection and Next Generation Video Product (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBnLCbzMR9Y#ws)
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From the full blog post that's linked, it asks near the bottom: "What could anyone possibly do with 1Gbps of speed?" I think we could find a few things ;)
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So I can hit the bandwidth cap in like 30 minutes in the future? trollface.jpg
Anyhoo, sounds nice, hopefully this can be rolled out soon, FiOS has had its rapeface on in Comcast areas and this could make Comcast competitive again.
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You know what you couldn't do with it? Run a BF3 server.
Thank you! I'll be here all week!
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So I can hit the bandwidth cap in like 30 minutes in the future? trollface.jpg
QFT!
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Those quotes like "Why would anyone need so much <object in question>?" annoy me. Especially when it comes to technology, people who say stupid Crap like that need to get their brain scanned for increased levels of dumb. I remember back in 6th grade when I got a 2.5gb hard drive. Same question was asked. "Why would you possibly need that much space?". Simple answer: "Because I will eventually." In the world of technology, everything equates to peanuts. 6TB of hdd space? In a few years, that'll be peanuts. Hell, it sort of already is.
Why would I need a 1gbps connection? Because bandwidth requirements continually increase, and faster connection speeds will eventually become available. Derp!
/rant
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^ This.