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  • 1 May, 2005 at 9:29 am #548

    Dirty.Davros

    I read this article online somewhere. I dunno if its true but im bl00dy jelous :twisted:

    Hong Kong Broadband Network has launched a new ultra fast service. The symmetric 1Gbps service costs approximately £112 per month, but obliterates the kind of speeds we are used to in the UK. We are eagerly waiting for the rollout of an 8Mbps service and consider that to be fast.

    While this kind of speed is unlikely to be available in the UK for some time, the possibilities for its use are immense. Large publishers could offer direct download services for their games, online gaming could be revolutionised and TV channels could be streamed at MPEG-2 DVD quality. It is hard to actually imagine speeds reaching 1Gbps in the UK, but we can dream.

    1 May, 2005 at 10:04 am #110454

    blondeblue

    lol@jealous :lol: :lol:

    I`ve got 2.2 Mbps and that`s so much faster now than what I had before, but 1Gbps must be amazing. Mind you for £112 a month it bloody well wants to be. :shock: Don`t think I`d be upgrading any time soon. :roll:

    1 May, 2005 at 10:29 am #110455

    Oss

    I got a hamster running around the wheel – depending on how much speed i feed him relates to how fast me internet is :D

    1 May, 2005 at 12:04 pm #110456

    Dirty.Davros

    a standard 4Mbps connection from telewest is £50 around here.

    £112 seems like a steal. Just like the downloads you could get :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

    1 May, 2005 at 12:23 pm #110457

    blondeblue

    @Dirty.Davros wrote:

    a standard 4Mbps connection from telewest is £50 around here.

    £112 seems like a steal. Just like the downloads you could get :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

    I don`t know what you could possibly mean. :shock: O:) :wink: :lol: :lol:

    3 May, 2005 at 12:08 am #110458

    Soulie

    i did have a 1mb service.. but found it tottaly pointless as every site i go to had an upload speed of half that at most, so speed made no real difference apart from when downloading from sites such as sigames or microsoft,

    the future is out there, that no one will ever have to leave there home, scary really.. bad enough as it is

    3 May, 2005 at 12:20 am #110459

    Temptress

    @oss wrote:

    I got a hamster running around the wheel – depending on how much speed i feed him relates to how fast me internet is :D

    :lol: :lol: now im jealous Oss, i have to ram shovels full of coal in the back of mine, messy :roll:

    £112 per month does it come with a gold plated mouse :P

    3 May, 2005 at 8:07 am #110460

    dewsgirl

    £112.00??!! :-k i’d need to get me millionaire back for that…….but alas.. :cry: ..he ran off and left me and i know not where he is……
    so i guess i’ll just stick to me snails pace :lol: :lol: :lol:

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