>> How much is 50€ in terms of US $ ??
About $76. It's a good price, considering how expensive cable TV is. But Americans still have substantially cheaper options, going by what GanglyLamb said.
>> How much is 50€ in terms of US $ ??
About $76. It's a good price, considering how expensive cable TV is. But Americans still have substantially cheaper options, going by what GanglyLamb said.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
Argh, makes me feel very 'behind' living in Australia. A vast majority of Australia is barely on ADSL, IDSN is widely used... Not to mention I get a whole 12GB to spend over 30 days including upload :'(
We're not just jibbed with speed, also with bandwidth. The government has promised to upgrade us to "world class broadband" (In fact he used that to get into office). However, I don't know what "world class is", nor where he's going to pull the few billion dollars it'll cost to install.
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
Yes... In fact a few years ago when I was in high school we had 1Mbit IDSN for 1500+ students with a few hundred PCs, 8 servers, the works.
It's okay, now they upgraded to 2Mb ADSL. They charge every student 10c/MB and they pay 7c.
Yeah, they have to use some sort of shielding to get rid of interference.
It's a shame about all these bandwidth limits. For this, it's about €39 per month (yes, it's a tad expensive compared to others, but it's the only choice out in the middle of nowhere), but bandwidth is free. I can download however much I want without a single complaint from the ISP. And who knows how much bandwidth I've spent?
That is very much possible, i get those speeds on my LAN everyday with normal cat5 connection wires and i am sure that there are no optical wires in the network.Yeah, I just thought of that. Speeds of 100 mbps would probably not be possible without optic.
Hmmm. So what limits the amount of wires they can bunt together then, I wonder? Hardware?
I envy all you people because i pay about $25 a month for a 128 kbps connection with no download cap which really sucks. Most of the plans offered by local isps have a cap of around 1GB per month with speeds upto 2 mbps :| just tell me if that makes any sense to you.
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And you call that lousy ? :PI get 8 Mbps/1Mbps w/ no cap. Which is pretty lousy compared to other offerings, but it's the best offered right here.
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Source : http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338
* I've removed posting the data here because it stretches the post to annoying widths.
First, when I said "very good quality", I didn't mean Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Personally, I'd call DVD quality "very good"... but who am I to judge? Regardless, the numbers I've posted (which are from what I understand pretty accurate) seem to show that a Blu-Ray movie can range anywhere from ~300MB/min to ~150MB/min, the average seemingly being closer to about 215MB/min. So... even multiplying all of my data by 21.5... you're still downloading a life-time worth (90 or so years) of video (Blu-Ray quality, mind you) in about 20 days. Even if you divided the download speed by 35... you're still downloading 90 or so years of Blu-Ray video in under 2 years. Think about downloading 45 minutes of Blu-Ray video in one minute... this goes well beyond streaming HD video. Which, I suppose is something that will be in high demand in the near future. This is a good step towards completely doing away with tangible disk media.
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