What Would the Web Feel Like at 100 Mbps?
Over at GigaOM, Om interviews Richard S. Guziewicz, one of two Verizon employees testing a 100-megabit-per-second broadband connection. Guziewicz reports,
“I visit streaming sites such as YouTube, Metacafe, and CNN but they don’t require super high speeds. Some video download sites might benefit but generally they don’t support very high speeds either. For instance, I have a 100 Mbps pipe to my home, but if I try to download a file from a certain HD video site, I find I may get only 3 Mbps of download speed, which I believe is a limitation of the site and its servers.”
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See, this is the limitation inherent in many servers and sites today. No matter how fast your connection may say it is, it’s really only as fast as the server has the potential to be. And if the server has blazingly fast speeds, but the computer itself has a slow connection, people still end up getting the short end of the straw.