Chattanooga, Tenn. First to Receive 1Gbps Internet

[jeraldjunkmail]

I'd split it 3 or four ways with some nearby neighbors. I'd pay 100 a month for that kind of speed, and my neighbors wouldn't always be using it.

As an aside, how many HDD's can keep up? You would need raided SSD's to make use of it. An SSD does about 260mbps for writes...

 

[f-14]

article should read chattanooga Tn. can now do 1gb internet with each other. you guys are forgetting about the weakest link in the chain once you go beyond that network for ANYTHING you just get bottlenecked to the fastest speed the other place your accessing has, and that's only if conditions are optimal. i would like to see how well this works in with torrents, i'm pretty sure i could find a way to max it out between my 6 machines.

 

[palladin9479]

It that 1gb down or 1gb aggregate? What is the down / up transmissions speeds and what kind of limits will be in place.

And yes $350 a month is entirely too much. Over here in SK I get 100Mbs up/down (direct Cat-5 Ethernet connection) for approx $31 USD a month. You can get 1Gbs for 150 to 200 USD but only if your in selected area's. They plan on making it available to everyone in the next couple of years and it'll be cheaper then.

 

[ericburnby]

palladin9479 Who do you get that service from? And you get 100Mbp upload with that?

Shaw in Canada is already letting users in parts of Vancouver get a FREE 6 month trial of Gigabit service. In September they will be adding select areas in two more cities, also for a free six month trial.

No word on when it will become more widely available, or what it will cost, though.

 

[Guest]

jeraldjunkmail, you're confusing Mb with MB. 1Gbps is ~1000mbps = 1000/8 MBps = 125MB/s. 7200RPM drives can keep up with that.

 

[jrnyfan]

I can max my 20Mb from Comcast by downloading a game on Steam, that's easy.

1000gbps = 125MB/sec = I'm in love...

 

[gmarsack]

that would be an amazing price for internet. I would get it in a heart beat... that is, if upload speeds where similar.

 

[Guest]

hope they're not capping those service...
if they cap that at 250gb, "what do you mean that we have maxed out the bandwidth cap? we just register the service yesterday!"

 

[taidaan]

I live less than 25 miles from downtown Chattanooga; hopefully in the next county over we'll start seeing some decent internet speeds (i.e. greater than 6 Mbps).

 

[asus x48]

My hair is on fire mach 1gigbit

 

[mman74]

Most people might not see any real ptracical benefits over this and a decent ADSL line. For a start that kind of speeds will only be local with the ISP, so to get anywhere near that kind of 'nominal' speed, you are going to have to be moving files with someone local on the same ISP.
That leaves your everyday surfing and content providers at this moment are no way going to be catering to that kind of band-width for you sole pleasure. So in reality unless you are sharing files with your neighbour a lot, you might not see any difference over regular broadband.

 

[vsgm]

I still have a 512kbps Connection! 🙁

 

[dimar]

That's great. I guess it's a step closer for average person to stream blu-ray or even 4k 3D HD online 🙂 But with the way Canadian ISPs advance, I give it 10-20 years before we get this for 20$ a month 🙁

 

[eddieroolz]

Very envious, though $350 is hell of a lot...!

 

[viper666]

my 120mbps is maxed out 24/7, guess its time to move to Tennessee

 

[braneman]

WHAT not "Google Kansas"?!??!!!?

 

[shanky887614]

its only 128MB/s so its not that fast its only 20 times faster than virgins 50mb deal

 

[Guest]

Here in Portugal there are also other ISP's with GPON such as Portugal Telecom (Sapo Fibra and Meo Fibra), Vodafone, Optimus Clix, Cored but to the date none of them supply 1 GB (speed's between 10MBPs and 300 MBPs downstream) . ZON Multimedia continues to advertise "ZON Fiber" service for their EURODOCSIS 3.0 non-FTTH product (except for their 1 Gb symetric service far as I know)

 

[Guest]

Australia is currently constructing a national broadband network with 1Gb/s speeds, and it is an entire continent with a sparse population; this Chattanooga project by comparison is a joke. The US needs a government built network in order to provide a decent service. I am a big believer in capitalism, but when a service has little or no competition (like communication networks) then government can do a better job.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]jojesa[/nom]I have not been able to cap my 20Mbps connection...not even half of it.Why would I need 1 Gbps?[/citation]
You are not trying. I max my 24mb connection every single time I download. Thank God for secure newsgroups.