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100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland

Posted by timothy on from the helluva-commute dept.

Listen Up writes "According to an article on CNN, broadband Internet access via cable modems in Finland will be able to hit 100 Mbps as early as 2006. That would be 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes in Finland. Do you think this technology has the possibility of reaching U.S. shores? Or do you think the already deeply entrenched U.S. politics are going to keep this technology from ever reaching us? There are already thousands and thousands of miles of 'dark fiber' underground around the U.S."

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  1. What is the by mingot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's the upload speed?

    1. Re:What is the by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No, its usually the speed of the line, its just american residential has dicked us around long enough for people to expect it.

      When you run a 100mbit line to your office, if you only get 90mbit upstream you complain about the SLA being broken.
      When you run a 5mbit line to your house, you're lucky if you get .3mbit up.

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  2. Nice! by Sweetdelight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish I lived there..And if the fibre doesn't have Caps, That would sweeten the deal.

  3. Benchmarking by hattan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Based on our research, 30 megabits per second is the absolute minimum in future homes" I wonder what kind of tests they used to determine that figure.

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  4. Meanwhile in japan .... by mxpengin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have this FTH service in japan since last month and is very nice ... my only complain is that is very hard to get high transmition rates with the service... only if you are using things in japan . The cost is about 80 dollars a month and television services can be used on demand ( for a fee of course ). A link in english to my provider .

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  5. That's what I'm getting _today_. by mdn · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Well, not really. But I could be getting it if I wasn't too cheap.

    100 MBit Internet access (both ways) is offered to apartment owners in a number of Swedish towns. This costs about 76 USD a month.

    As I said before, I'm too cheap to pay for that, so I'm paying for a throttled version (10 MBit/s) of the same service putting me back about 40 USD a month.

    The service has been offered for quite a few years by a company called Bredbandsbolaget. (The site is in a strange foreign language though. Be warned.)

  6. Re:100Mb/s speed by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A couple dozen infected machines in Finland can now DOS attack multiple internet back bones simultaneously. GREAT.

  7. Um....? by Atario · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Aren't all connections shared, at some point? Isn't that more or less the definition of the Internet?

    Those DSL lines all go somewhere, you know, and I'm betting each one doesn't get its own T3...

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