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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 eshvk »

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.

This really is a classic example of a false dichotomy. It is not like people can't multitask or the fact that they are working on a space program or getting faster internet means that they completely decide to drop everything else that they could work on.

I mean saying what you just said is exactly identical to the following:

1) Bill Clinton may have been a great president but the fact that his personal life was not up to mark clearly shows that he was a complete failure in life.

2) Sure it is nice that we have so many new entrepreneurs in China but the fact that they don't have democracy is important and we shouldn't forget that.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by eshvk »

benjacob wrote: post #19
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…

> 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.

How long is this excuse going to get trotted out? There are enough examples of countries (South Korea, China for example) out there that went through the process of colonization, liberation and have still been able to get more people out of poverty and move faster up the ladder.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by CervezaPorFavor »

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.

I'm pretty sure many developed countries (including those in Asia) have had 1Gbps FTTH for at least a few years now.

What an ignorant author.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by rikacomet »

Its true, I can confirm that 1GBPS connection is available to general public, given your ready to pay the cost of it, and are in a well connected area, near a telecom center or something.

I remember a proper news was about a 300GBPS connection for academic use between US and Europe, though I don't remember the fine details of that. If it were to be India, yes, that would definitely be a first!

As a fellow Indian, I feel bad of how some people brought the malnutrition and poverty as a topic here. Its quite common for a lot of Indians to have that perception. I will not further engage that topic though. So lets concentrate on why we are here.

Peace!

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by kayoone »

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #15
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…

even 10 years ago when we only had dsl with 1MBit i looked in envy to scandinavia with their 10Mbit connections everywhere..

You guys are still far ahead, but today i have 120Mbit at home which is plenty even for a heavy user like me! Still 1Gbit is exciting for me :)

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Post by 3825 »

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #16
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.

Any ideas where the bottleneck is? Is this a latency issue? What is your ping to s.ytimg.com like?

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by mkr-hn »

jr_sci wrote: post #28

Internet companies that promises a 7.5 mbps provides 2 mbps in reality. To bring a 1 gbps line to the general public is a distant dream.

I consistently get the advertised speed with Comcast. It probably helps that Metro Atlanta has several competing companies.

Re: India Gets its First 1Gbps Internet Connection.

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Post by 31reasons »

w1ntermute wrote: post #7
negamax wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment comes often in online forums. India is not run by one person. There's no need to only solve one problem. Why can't they have technological progress like space programs, high speed Internet and at the same time work on other problems too? In another news India's number of AIDS patients are fallen by 57%. See other statistics and you will realize that addressing malnourishment, infant mortality rates, midd…

> See other statistics and you will realize that addressing malnourishment, infact mortality rates, middle class expansion all are underway together. I remember reading that the malnourishment problem in India has gotten worse, not better.

Exactly because india is not keeping up with the population growth.
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