Gamers in Paris enjoy 2.5Gb/s Internet.

zekrahminator · Jul 26, 2006

Anyone who can spare 70 Euros a month and can get service from France Telecom in the Paris region can enjoy internet with 2.5Gb/s downstream and 1.2Gb/s upstream, along with free phone and television. The new network is purely fiber optic.

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NamesDontMatter · Jul 26, 2006

OMG, I wish I had that, I'd host so many game servers haha. Thats alot of bandwith.

Corrosion · Jul 26, 2006

U.S. will never have it im betting

RickyG512 · Jul 26, 2006

HOLY SHIT SHIT SHIT

do you mean as in 2,500 mb internet

POGE · Jul 26, 2006

Lucky bastards...

randomperson21 · Jul 26, 2006

oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh.

i should move to paris.

magibeg · Jul 26, 2006

Kicks the crap out of my 5mb connection. What could you ever do with all that upload?!?! Bit torrents would be fantastic. Anyone know if there is an upload/download cap?

randomperson21 · Jul 26, 2006

ha! beats my 768k connection hands down.

NamesDontMatter · Jul 26, 2006

Corrosion said:
U.S. will never have it im betting

Yeah because us ISPs are out to screw people over.

b1lk1 · Jul 26, 2006

The technology exists in North America for much faster internet, but the telecom companies don't want to give it out cheap. Profits profits profits. The "benefit" of living in a superpower, you get raped by big business.

randomperson21 · Jul 26, 2006

can anyone say fios?

i hear somewhere in ohio or texas or something, some telcom is doing a pilot rollout of fiber optic lines directly to customer's houses.
that would be schweet.

Migons · Jul 26, 2006

This is unfair! Here it's almost impossible to have over 100/100 Mbps connection - and that's rare too!

p0lly · Jul 26, 2006

How is that speed useful??? SATA's theoretical max bandwidth is 300MB/s - A 2.5 Gb/s is 312.5MB/s. It's great in theroy and don't get me wrong - I WANT IT; it just seems a bit overkill no?

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 26, 2006

It's nice, but do we really need a connection that fast to play online? It would be good for servers and downloading games themselves, but I must say - 70 euros isn't actually too bad a price for something that speed with TV and phone. Under £50 or $90.

Solaris17 · Jul 26, 2006

dude id move to paris to nab that who cares if your copmputer cant wright data that fast?

Alec§taar · Jul 26, 2006

b1lk1 said:
The technology exists in North America for much faster internet, but the telecom companies don't want to give it out cheap. Profits profits profits. The "benefit" of living in a superpower, you get raped by big business.

Probably exactamundo/on-the-mark!

* I know that FiberOptics are laid down to the residential sector here in my area, but is it used? NO!

(I spoke to linemen who work the poles for it in my area in fact, as I play pool with a few regularly... they told me some "downsides" of fiber optics too, you should all be made aware of as well, read on!)

Fibre optic cable is a MAJOR pain to linemen apparently, as patching/repairing it is a nightmare for the ones I spoke to, & mainly because while fibreoptics are EXCELLENT inside of a large building (say an office building)?

It sucks in windy areas, OR storm-prone ones like I live in (2nd most cloudy city in the U.S.A. in fact, after Seattle)... breaks VERY easily from what I was told, when used in EXTERNAL to building environs.

Something to keep in mind about Fiber optic cable used for online internet access... provided what I heard was true, & I tend to think it is (based on the fact the guys I play pool with play honest pool, so they must be fairly straight-up on what they told me about this type of line being used @ a residential level (not used, but it IS there & ready to go)).

APK

Solaris17 · Jul 26, 2006

Alec§taar said:
Probably exactamundo/on-the-mark!

* I know that FiberOptics are laid down to the residential sector here in my area, but is it used? NO!

(I spoke to linemen who work the poles for it in my area in fact, as I play pool with a few regularly... they told me some "downsides" of fiber optics too, you should all be made aware of as well, read on!)

Fibre optic cable is a MAJOR pain to linemen apparently, as patching/repairing it is a nightmare for the ones I spoke to, & mainly because while fibreoptics are EXCELLENT inside of a large building (say an office building)?

It sucks in windy areas, OR storm-prone ones like I live in (2nd most cloudy city in the U.S.A. in fact, after Seattle)... breaks VERY easily from what I was told, when used in EXTERNAL to building environs.

Something to keep in mind about Fiber optic cable used for online internet access... provided what I heard was true, & I tend to think it is (based on the fact the guys I play pool with play honest pool, so they must be fairly straight-up on what they told me about this type of line being used @ a residential level (not used, but it IS there & ready to go)).

APK

i belive it as i heard the same because if the line is torn exposing the optics it wont work or become currupted because now light is contaminating the line. and being that the line is made out of plastic/ glass? if it bends to much guess what? /break sure 1 cable wont but if you bundle them together if it bends to far it will break tearing a couple cables thus effing it up. and when you patch it you have to make sure their isnt sand in it and you have to make sure you dont scratch the cable or the light will refract doing the same as it would if you took off the rubber coating.

technicks · Jul 26, 2006

Move to Holland

I live in Enschede, Holland and i have 10 MB/s data transfer. Digital tv. And telephone for 50 euro. Thanks to the glass fiber network in my area.

Darksaber · Jul 26, 2006

I pay 48,50€ a month for 6MBit down/1MBit up...and that is limited to the first 20GBs (lasts me around the first 7 days of the month). After that its 1Mbit down/1Mbit up...

zekrahminator · Jul 27, 2006

$30 a month for 3Mb/s down, 768Kb/s up.

FLY3R · Jul 27, 2006

There running all fiber optic in the dessert where i used to live, duno about the badwith rates though, rumerd to be really large.

Canuto · Jul 27, 2006

2mb/s down 384kb/s up

OOTay · Jul 27, 2006

Well... ive never ever thought i would say this in my life but uh... looks like im moving to paris!

Never mind.

bigboi86 · Jul 27, 2006

I got a 3mbit line and I'm pretty satisfied with it. Anything above 10mbit is just overkill IMO.

OOTay · Jul 27, 2006

bigboi86 said:
I got a 3mbit line and I'm pretty satisfied with it. Anything above 10mbit is just overkill IMO.

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