The Perfect Broadband Connection
It’s something that has been on my mind all day today. What do I consider the perfect broadband connection? For my money, thus far anyway, Verizon’s FiOS has been the best solution for my connectivity needs I have used yet. And I am not just say that!
Yes, I do get frustrated sometimes as my up-speed is not always at the full advertised 20 Mbps, but despite this, the speed cannot be beat. And I say this as an ex-cable user, mind you. But what if satellite did not have its inherent flaws? What if latency and cost was not a factor, it was able to compete in speed with other methods of broadband delivery and best of all, not have silly usage caps.
So when I read stuff like this, I get all excited for those folks who are still stuck in areas where good broadband is not available. I mean, if this article was dated December of 2008, with the expected launch of the new satellite in 2001…perhaps there is hope? What do you think? Wires, wireless, fiber or satellites – where does the future of broadband happen to be?
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April 9th, 2009
at 2:57am
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Ed
April 9th, 2009
at 3:40am
For me, the perfect connection would be synchronous and allow for hosting. I have a standard DSL line that I host over, so downstream has never mattered much to me (I also have insightbb’s 20 mbit service serving the house for general surfing and the like).
However, if AT&T/BellSouth would allow for even 3mbit synchronous DSL, especially for resale through folks like my ISP which allows me to run my own unix based server to host friend’s web pages, I would be in seventh heaven. The current setup of 3m down and 384k up gets ridiculous and insight’s handling of users who serve maddens me (yes, I understand it’s to curb piracy, spam and other woes upon the net, but you know, why not offer it as an additional service (paid if necessary) and have the system you’re proposing for a server be portscanned and stress tested before being allowed to go online? It would really foster relations with us geeky folk who wish to do these things for hobbies and would like to do it legally.
It’s a thought, at least.
Michael
April 9th, 2009
at 4:51am
I have the perfect broadband connection. It’s a cheap 100M fiber line in Hong Kong. Cheaper than your FIOS crap. Beat that, Verizon!
Robetr Naramore
April 9th, 2009
at 6:34am
The perfect internet connection in my opinion would be available at my home (cough cough). A speed of 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps downstream and an average of 256-512knps upstream I do not ask for much. I JUST WANT AFFORDABLE BROADBAND ( any type of broadband actually).
Justin
April 9th, 2009
at 7:56am
I think this can drastically depend on peoples needs. For me I would be happy with connection that maxes out my network hardware at 1000Mbps. I have noticed that most of my customers want a wireless broadband connection that is both affordable and decently fast. Verizon offers an air card and service for 60 dollars a month with FAP styled down/up restrictions and just about tops out at 800 or so Mbps, that isn’t reasonable at all and AT&T are no better. So I think heaven will be when Wimax finally hits nationwide.
Likaholix Ford ~ Windows Fanatics
April 9th, 2009
at 12:50pm
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Gavin Roskamp
April 9th, 2009
at 2:33pm
ANYTHING faster than my current DSL. Only about 100KBps down and 25KBps up?!?!?!? SERIOUSLY! They advertise that I get 1Mbps (I believe it is BIT not BYTE) connection… no details about up speed there. But even if that is true, 1Mb = 250KB, so I should be getting 150KB faster…
20MB or Mb sounds like a dream come true. YouTube being able to load a video in under a minute!? Apple’s website’s videos not stopping every half second? uStream not randomly freezing every 10 seconds and having a 20 second latency!? HEAVEN!
M. Free
April 16th, 2009
at 1:20pm
It isn’t the broadband connection that concerns me. It’s the slownessss of the internet in general. I find that the status bar at the bottom of IE8 seems to contain the magic word “WAITING” much too oftena nd much too long!