Comments on: Good Bye Slow Cable Internet…Hello Superfast Grid https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/ The latest in policital news and the war in Iraq Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Max https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136334 Max Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:36:34 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136334 "The Grid"... Hmmm. Sounds like the Matrix... “The Grid”…

Hmmm. Sounds like the Matrix…

]]> By: TBinSTL (just typical) https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136335 TBinSTL (just typical) Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:37:15 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136335 Skynet here we come.... Skynet here we come….

]]> By: Hank https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136339 Hank Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:51:13 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136339 LOL, Microsoft will find a way to slow it down. LOL,
Microsoft will find a way to slow it down.

]]> By: Bill Smith https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136351 Bill Smith Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:55:32 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136351 Wow. Just when I'm about to lose my "slow connection" excuse, Hillary has provided me with a new one. Now I just say, "Sorry, I was pinned down by sniper fire" just as she did on Leno. :neutral: Wow. Just when I’m about to lose my “slow connection” excuse, Hillary has provided me with a new one. Now I just say, “Sorry, I was pinned down by sniper fire” just as she did on Leno.

:neutral:

]]> By: GF https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136358 GF Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:35:32 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136358 Internet 2 has existed for ten years, we're just not invited. :sad: "While Internet1 is open to pretty much anyone with a computer, access to Internet2 is limited to a select few, and its backbone is made up entirely of large-capacity fiber-optic cables. Rather than Internet1, which is cobbled together out of old telephone lines, Internet2 was built for speed—the roads are all wide and smooth, like your own private autobahn. Internet2 moves data at 10 gigabits per second and more, compared with the 4 or so megabits you'll get using a cable modem. As a result, Internet2 moves data 100 to 1,000 times faster than the old-fashioned Internet." - http://www.slate.com/id/2120440/ Internet 2 has existed for ten years, we’re just not invited. :sad:

“While Internet1 is open to pretty much anyone with a computer, access to Internet2 is limited to a select few, and its backbone is made up entirely of large-capacity fiber-optic cables. Rather than Internet1, which is cobbled together out of old telephone lines, Internet2 was built for speed—the roads are all wide and smooth, like your own private autobahn. Internet2 moves data at 10 gigabits per second and more, compared with the 4 or so megabits you’ll get using a cable modem. As a result, Internet2 moves data 100 to 1,000 times faster than the old-fashioned Internet.”

- http://www.slate.com/id/2120440/

]]> By: Leatherneck https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136359 Leatherneck Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:43:31 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136359 Reminds me of William Gibson's Neuromancer. Japan gets pretty kick-ass speed now. They get 93,693 megabits a second compared to America's 8,860 megabits. They can pretty much watch high definition tv via the internet. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/ Reminds me of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

Japan gets pretty kick-ass speed now. They get 93,693 megabits a second compared to America’s 8,860 megabits.

They can pretty much watch high definition tv via the internet.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/

]]> By: ticticboom(Will Kill For Oil) https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136367 ticticboom(Will Kill For Oil) Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:50:12 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136367 Verizon's pushing FIos, which brings fiber directly to your house. My parents upstate have it already. 20 mps internet connection, and that's just the beginning. There's only so much data you can push through with coax or copper, but there's no hard ceiling with fiber. We're selling half our real estate holdings to pay for it. Hell, they're turning our headquarters on 42nd into condos. The cable companies have been suing to keep it away from the public instead of doing it themselves. Plus, they've been flooding the airwaves with bullshit commercials. If you pay attention, they never, ever give hard numbers. Jimmy fucking Dolan has cost me alot of money, and I'm pissed that I don't have it yet because he paid off some judge. Bastard would kill his own mother for a nickel. Verizon’s pushing FIos, which brings fiber directly to your house. My parents upstate have it already. 20 mps internet connection, and that’s just the beginning. There’s only so much data you can push through with coax or copper, but there’s no hard ceiling with fiber. We’re selling half our real estate holdings to pay for it. Hell, they’re turning our headquarters on 42nd into condos.

The cable companies have been suing to keep it away from the public instead of doing it themselves. Plus, they’ve been flooding the airwaves with bullshit commercials. If you pay attention, they never, ever give hard numbers.

Jimmy fucking Dolan has cost me alot of money, and I’m pissed that I don’t have it yet because he paid off some judge. Bastard would kill his own mother for a nickel.

]]> By: Bob USMC https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136396 Bob USMC Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:50:16 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136396 Hey, wait a second, I thought Al Gore invented the internet? Fucking liar! :mrgreen: :gun: :gun: Hey, wait a second, I thought Al Gore invented the internet? Fucking liar! :mrgreen: :gun: :gun:

]]> By: PhilNBlanx https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136454 PhilNBlanx Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:45:11 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136454 Bob -- In all fairness Algore DID invent Global Warming. Bob — In all fairness Algore DID invent Global Warming.

]]> By: A. S. Wise- VA https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136525 A. S. Wise- VA Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:49:17 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-136525 My off-campus Apt. only gets the service we pay for, when Fall & Spring classes aren't in session. Comcastic, my ass! :evil: It works fine back home. My thinking is, they don't care about college students, who won't be living here permanently. I'd love to have FIOS right now, but Blacksburg hasn't received that yet. On-campus, however, it's just fine (as with most big colleges). The more bandwidth, the better! My off-campus Apt. only gets the service we pay for, when Fall & Spring classes aren’t in session. Comcastic, my ass! :evil: It works fine back home. My thinking is, they don’t care about college students, who won’t be living here permanently.

I’d love to have FIOS right now, but Blacksburg hasn’t received that yet. On-campus, however, it’s just fine (as with most big colleges). The more bandwidth, the better!

]]> By: Brian H https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-137490 Brian H Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:28:56 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/good-bye-slow-cable-internethello-superfast-grid/#comment-137490 It will also permit full-body haptics contact with anyone in the world. Or in a simulated world. :shock: It will also permit full-body haptics contact with anyone in the world. Or in a simulated world. :shock:

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