So Where Else in the World Can You Get 1 Gbps to the Home?
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#2Japan is conspicuously absent where you can get 1 Gbps home connection for under $60/month.
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#3What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too?
That would make me happy. :)
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#41 Gb/s, like 125 MB per second? Whoa.
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#5What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too? That would make me happy. :)
That would obviously depend on many, many things, but when I was in Japan I regularly uploaded at 60+Mb/s on a 100Mb connection, which basically maxed out my CPU. I assume that, given reasonable contention ratios, you'd be able to upload at a good proportion of the 1Gbps to any peer, over any pipe, able to accept it. I wouldn't count on being able to get anything like that over an international link but to your friend in the next suburb, sure.
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#6Canberra, Australia: TransACT, an Australian service provider, is trailing a network with speeds of up to 1 Gbps for residential customers.
Uh-huh. What's the quota (bandwidth limit)? Knowing Australia, it's something like 30GB/month, meaning that theoretically you could burn through your entire monthly allocation in under 5 minutes.
iiNet and Internode are also playing around with fibre in some new housing estates, here's an internode pricelist:
http://www.internode.on.net/pdf/products/home-fibre-pricelis... [PDF]
Oh boy, $99 a month for 15GB of data, but it's delivered really quickly!
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#7What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too? That would make me happy. :)
I am curious. Is there any technical reason why you cant have the same high up/down speed? Is it more expensive?
If Google provides a service with a high upload speed, I can see myself hosting my own server from home. Crappy upload speed is the only thing stopping me from hosting servers myself from my home line.
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#8What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too? That would make me happy. :)
For the general well being of the Internet I think any provider offering 1Gb/sec upload speeds to residential users needs to do deep packet inspection or employ some other method to protect against malware driven attacks. You can do some real harm with 1Gb/sec. DPI would probably be preferred since it could snoop out known attacks and allow the customer to utilize their upstream speeds legitimately. A blanket QoS policy for high usage is easier but has some obvious downsides. Probably not a bad idea at the 50-100Mbit/sec range either. There's too much malware out there to be oblivious to the risks.
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#9What's the general connection speed of everyone on HN? Does anyone have an insane connection?
Mine is 4Mbit/s in South Africa, we're getting 8Mbit/s soon and possibly 10Mbit/s. It's pretty expensive; ~$200 p/m for an shaped and uncapped connection.
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#10I know this isn't Reddit so hopefully there will be no whining to preempt here. But I just want to point out that except for two cases on this list, these are just pilot programs, and of the production installations only Sweden's seems widely available.