Nov 26
If this is true, the web may finally kill network television.
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EA Sports NCAA Football on January 10th, 2008
Patrick O'Brian, Bloody Olde England on January 28th, 2008
Casino Royale -or- The Return of the Guy's Movie on March 20th, 2007
Grindhouse Downer on October 15th, 2007
Society of S on October 17th, 2007
November 26th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
DSL is a best effort technology and will still be limited as it is a “shared” network. Residentially speaking, it doesn’t matter how fast or clean you make it, it will still bog down at 7PM on Saturday night as your neighbors will all be downloading the latest version of Justin Timberlake’s “I deflowered Brittainy, again” video for their IPODs.
I will tell you, however, that this will effect the small business telecom market (where I operate) because faster DSL will mean that small and medium businesses will not upgrade to T1 or Fiber if they are not forced to.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Well, yeah, network sharing will bottleneck any network, unless you’re on a T1 where you’re guaranteed your 1.544MBPS, and even then the more people you pack onto it the less bandwidth you have (which is why corporate offices often run fiber and bunches of T1s). But, still, even if it’s in a lab setting, this guy tweaks a DSL line from 10MBPS to 100MBPS, and the equipment is cheap (which they say it will be)… it can’t but help. Not that I’m complaining about speeds. My DSL works great, but if I could watch a program–any program, say, the Office–on demand on my computer and upload it to my iPod… I’m just saying there’s a lot of potential for this, and the Web has already impacted the way we (the masses, the drones) are entertained… /rant :-)
December 4th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
DSL isn’t as bottlenecky as Cable right now–with cable you really do share bandwidth with your neighbor since the bandwidth to each of those green neighborhood junction boxes is fixed, and the pipe is relatively small.
With DSL, you don’t get into sharing until you hit the local Central Office, and then you’re dealing with really massive fiber-optic pipes. So, generally, you’re going to get the stated bandwidth out of DSL, much less with cable.
Verizon’s FiOS will probably put them both in the cemetery, and at a fraction of a fraction of the cost of a T1.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
mmmmm…I like the way that sounds.