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India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by monsterix »

This is a very welcome update. Anything that promotes web, and thereby free speech and information dispersal, in this otherwise largely offline and corruption-stricken land is great news.

Malnourished children, as someone pointed out below, is definitely a serious problem. But I think that with better means to disperse information (better internet) people can find their way to places where they can get food, better work opportunities and even meet other people from different parts of the world to share their problems.

Better Internet is definitely the right way to go forward. Just my 2 cents.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by cubancigar11 »

dimmuborgir wrote: post #8
31reasons wrote: post #2

1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

Depends on how you see it: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ne011212Onc...

Thanks for that link. I have been wondering about it for several years myself. This needs to be brought up more often.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by kalleboo »

jauer wrote: post #3

Second place in the world is a bit presumptuous. Besides that, Google in in Kansas City wasn't the first provider with 1G FTTH project by a long shot.

Yeah I wonder where they got that from. Swedish ISPs have had 1 GBps options for years now if you live in a properly equipped apartment complex. Did the original source mean something more specific, and it just got mangled by the reporter?

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Post by vrp101 »

This is surprising. My university (DA-IICT) in Gandhinagar, India has had a 1 Gbps internet connection for quite some time now (over a year). Of course, the bandwidth is distributed and no individual gets all of it. I am not sure about the ISP, but I think it is BSNL, an Indian state-owned telecommunications company.

I think educational institutions are provided with high speed connections at subsidized rates by the BSNL, while other private companies had an upper bound on the max bandwidth they can get. The original post must be about the removal of this constraint.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

jauer wrote: post #3

Second place in the world is a bit presumptuous. Besides that, Google in in Kansas City wasn't the first provider with 1G FTTH project by a long shot.

Helsinki Finland: I have had FTTH 1 Gbps link for years. Price 89€/mo including taxes and all costs and hardware. Now operators are also offer 10G/10G option, if someone really needs it at home. 10 megabits is usually more than anyone actually needs in normal situation. Then you'll notice that some sites are too slow and do not provide data quickly enough. Of course you can fix that by running 100-10000 parallel HTTP sessions, which seems to create DoS situation for most of smaller sites. One image hosting site was so slow, that I decided to mirror it, but actually I took it offline. ;( Remember, if you run out of sockets / sessions before hitting bandwidth limit, you can use multiple public interfaces to get more sockets.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

spicyj wrote: post #10

> or view a video in YouTube at this lightning speed! What does that even mean?

Well, it means that it doesn't work. It has been major subject of laugher and cry in Helsinki. Even if you have 10Gbit/s connection, it's "too slow" for streaming youtube videos (at any resolution) reliably. Yep, unfortunate but true. "Too slow" in this case means that the bottleneck is some where else in the network, but it still means that it simply doesn't work properly.

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Post by benjacob »

31reasons wrote: post #2

1Gbps internet is always welcome, but almost 50% of the malnourished children of the world live in India. Everyone seem to have forgotten them. Thats what indian politicians are good at.

India is an Asian country which was once colonized and liberated with more than enough problems which ever existed on the subcontinent. Among all other countries she tackled almost all those problems, not just for herself but for the entire place in just 60 years. Catching up with Industrial/Technological/Economic/Social development just like the rest of the world.

Give her a little more time, just might leave you in awe!

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by eshvk »

monsterix wrote: post #11

This is a very welcome update. Anything that promotes web, and thereby free speech and information dispersal, in this otherwise largely offline and corruption-stricken land is great news. Malnourished children, as someone pointed out below, is definitely a serious problem. But I think that with better means to disperse information (better internet) people can find their way to places where they can get food, better w…

> Malnourished children, as someone pointed out below, is definitely a serious problem. But I think that with better means to disperse information (better internet) people can find their way to places where they can get food, better work opportunities and even meet other people from different parts of the world to share their problems.

Sorry but just because the pipes for delivering information are getting larger, it doesn't mean that bad laws, corruption go away. Voters who still make decisions based on bad logic (Religion, Ethnic and cultural similarities) irrespective of overwhelming evidence to the contrary (It doesn't take many bytes to highlight corruption and those bytes have been floating around the Indian internet for a decade now) will always mean that these systemic issues will never disappear.

Overall, I am not disagreeing with your thesis that better internet is good, I am just not sure that internet is going to fix farmer suicides in states or religious motivated violence or even in feeding malnourished children (which the experience of Africa should tell us is not a mere matter of shuttling food around).

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