Comments on: One Gigabit to the home http://gigaom.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:26:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jB: no - that's definitely not good enough http://gigaom.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5718 jB: no - that's definitely not good enough Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5718 <p><strong>Updated: HongKong: Residental 1gbit Internet Connectivity</strong></p> <p>In case you thought your cable-modem, ADSL(2), WiMax or whatsoever is fast, you might re-consider: A BroadBand company from HongKong has started offering 100mbit access and will push the speeds up to 1gigabit per second for residential internet access … </p> <p>COMMENT: AUTHOR: Aswath Rao</p> <p>I recall that even their 100Mbps service came with an important limitation: there is a cap on the amount of “international” traffic. (So much for “There are no boundaries in IP”) Do you know whether similar cap is also there for this new 1Gbps service? It would be interesting to compare the two sizes. </p> Updated: HongKong: Residental 1gbit Internet Connectivity

In case you thought your cable-modem, ADSL(2), WiMax or whatsoever is fast, you might re-consider: A BroadBand company from HongKong has started offering 100mbit access and will push the speeds up to 1gigabit per second for residential internet access …

COMMENT: AUTHOR: Aswath Rao

I recall that even their 100Mbps service came with an important limitation: there is a cap on the amount of “international” traffic. (So much for “There are no boundaries in IP”) Do you know whether similar cap is also there for this new 1Gbps service? It would be interesting to compare the two sizes.

]]> By: VoIP Blog - Rich Tehrani http://gigaom.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5719 VoIP Blog - Rich Tehrani Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5719 <p><strong>US Losing Broadband Race</strong></p> <p>Om Malik reports on his blog that Hong Kong residents can now get 100 megabits per second to their homes over an Ethernet-based connection. When will our government decide it is important for the US to compete effectively in the… </p> <p>COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jesse Kopelman</p> <p>Never confuse last mile bandwidth with actual bandwidth delivered to the customer and don’t forget bandwidth caps.</p> <p>Bandwidth is not free to the provider. </p> US Losing Broadband Race

Om Malik reports on his blog that Hong Kong residents can now get 100 megabits per second to their homes over an Ethernet-based connection. When will our government decide it is important for the US to compete effectively in the…

COMMENT: AUTHOR: Jesse Kopelman

Never confuse last mile bandwidth with actual bandwidth delivered to the customer and don’t forget bandwidth caps.

Bandwidth is not free to the provider.

]]> By: Muniwireless http://gigaom.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5720 Muniwireless Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/02/04/one-gigabit-to-the-home/#comment-5720 <p><strong>Hongkong residents get Gigabit broadband</strong></p> <p>Om Malik reports that Hong Kong residents will be getting 1 Gigabit per second broadband connections starting June 2005. At… </p> <p>COMMENT: AUTHOR: Om Malik</p> <p>DrDebug - great point, and jesse, it is p2p lover’s paradise. </p> Hongkong residents get Gigabit broadband

Om Malik reports that Hong Kong residents will be getting 1 Gigabit per second broadband connections starting June 2005. At…

COMMENT: AUTHOR: Om Malik

DrDebug – great point, and jesse, it is p2p lover’s paradise.

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