You would be amazed how quickly that gets old. I'm sat on 10/100 ethernet to a 200Mbit connection. I tend to max out at about 40Mbit and I rarely use more than 4 or 5 Mbit.
You won't be able to do a damn thing with it because there won't be any servers fast enough to take advantage of it. Seriously, when was the last time you downloaded anything form anywhere at a constant speed of more than about 5 to 10 megs per second?
If the server has a decent connection, that won't be an issue. My hosting company has two OC48 pipes with quite a few OC3. OC48 = 2.5Gbps, OC3 = 155Mbps. So assuming they don't put a speed cap on, I'd most likely be limited by the hard drives.
what about the universities, some computer centers have 10Gbps lines the fastest I have heard of is 12Gbs but I don't remember who actully has those lines, but they are used only in universities and government facilities.
Those speeds are probably used for the Trans-Oceanic Cable that connects north america to europe, well one of them anyway. In regards to getting fiberoptic internet. I wouldn't worry too much about the cost of the cable or the service, more for the interface equipment, that stuff isn't exactly the cheapest out there you guys forget about OC3 and up lines. My college leases one of those, and lets just say it is FREAKING fast. I can get up to 11MB/s download speeds depending on the server. The other that you may find unfair in comparison Broadband in canada is Dirt Cheap. we have 3Meg cable line with 350K Upstream and we pay $45 Canadian a month and that includes the modem rental fee so thats like £19 or $36 and if you buy the modem you can get a 5Meg Down / 800k Up serverice for the same price.
where I live you can get 2.5mbps for $44 a month there is also a 8mbps but I don't know how much that cost.
The UK hasn't got broad-broadband because of Maggie Thatcher and her stupid stupid government. She stopped the roll out of fibre optic lines during her time in "power" & of course with fibre optics comes lightning fast broadband and cheap telco services.
i think it went a long the lines of "we can't see the need for telecommunications expanding" or some balls like that.
you'll be downloading over 120megs a second, 7.2 gigs a minute, 432 gigs an hour, 10.368TB a day And my internet connection is only 0.1% of that in Hong Kong, anyone here from Hong Kong getting this 1Gbps connection?
by the time we have 1gbp's broadband ram a decent amount ram will be more than enough to store everything on our hdd's and getting stuff off the internet will be just as fast as our hdd's... and by the time we have 1gb broadband hdd's would have super advanced along with quadroople core intel pentium 8's
