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When are we gonna have T3 internet speeds on phones over the air?
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Obviously he's using those nice new wireless fiber-optic cables that Netgear just came out with. The ones where you set-up a network of mirrors around your home and just bounce the light everywhere.
Obviously he's using those nice new wireless fiber-optic cables that Netgear just came out with. The ones where you set-up a network of mirrors around your home and just bounce the light everywhere.
I'm on Time Warner is SoCal. Their network in my area is completely fiber optic, giving me download speeds at just over 35Mbps. My upload is crap. The server just doesn't take more than 1Mbps, which I think is retarded.
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@FrenchJay that website shows data transfer. No where in there is something stated that they are receiving those speeds on downloads. and nonetheless the OP said T3 speeds, and I was pointing out that T3 is only 45Mbps. I mean if you want to talk data transfers USB 2.0 can transfer at 480Mbps but that is over 60MB per second, 3.6GB a minute, and you hardly see those speeds, making the 480Mbps theoretical.
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I stand corrected because there would have to be a leap in power and battery technology. The iPhone 4 is capable of 7.2 MBPS but it will never reach that due to the fact if it ever did the battery life would degrade quite rapidly.
So maybe more like 2030 But at that point the way phones are designed would be very different and would make anything that were using today look like a antique phone.
Let me know when you get a 2 Gbps connection at home and then we can speculate on similar wireless speeds.
You can get all kinds of high-speed commercial circuits available if you have the jack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates
Yeah but regardless its still not T3 and that's all I was really trying to point out that 2Gbps is no where close to T3 and will not be available for even homes for probably 20+ years let alone a phone/mobile network.
I just got Time Warner Cable installed in my apartment in NYC today and am getting download speeds at between 25-35 Mb/s, which I'm really impressed with since at my parents' house in Florida we get around 15 Mb/s with Comcast. However my upload speed here with TWC is less than 1 Mb/s while with Comcast it's around 6.
Thats exactly mine here is Socal! download is amazing, upload is only about .97 which is crap!
our graduate study lounges have fiber-optic t3 connections on Gbit network maxed out at 120,000kbps (120Mbps)= 15mb/s
there must be a traffic shaper because max upload is 16,00kbps :/
it would be pretty pointless on a phone, only time ive seen this be of any huge difference is streaming 1080p video
there must be a traffic shaper because max upload is 16,00kbps :/
it would be pretty pointless on a phone, only time ive seen this be of any huge difference is streaming 1080p video
Companies will get it earlier then homes anyway and it's gonna be extremely expensive so adoption to the Speed in MEDC countries will be probably in 2-7 years time depending on a variety of factors, in LEDC it will be at least another 10-20 years I think
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You're all wrong. The speed over air will be much faster than over ground in 5-10 years. It will be much cheaper to develop fast speed over the air, than on ground, and at that time everybody uses the internet, Everywhere! So why use money on fast internet on the ground?
At least my opinion
You're all wrong. The speed over air will be much faster than over ground in 5-10 years. It will be much cheaper to develop fast speed over the air, than on ground, and at that time everybody uses the internet, Everywhere! So why use money on fast internet on the ground?
At least my opinion
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Fios in Boston: 25 up/25 down.
At these speeds, the connection speed is not really the limiting factor in anything. Until most websites and online content is more demanding, i honestly couldn't care less about faster speeds on my phone.
ZenoVT said:Verizon Fios in Manhattan here
50Mbps down / 20 Mbps up
LOOOOVVEEE IT
Fios in Boston: 25 up/25 down.
At these speeds, the connection speed is not really the limiting factor in anything. Until most websites and online content is more demanding, i honestly couldn't care less about faster speeds on my phone.
Haha I didn't even notice that, I was just assuming it was bits considering we were talking about download speeds and not actual data.
I meant bytes. Though I was just trying to think to the future and come up with exorbitant speeds.
Just because it's not on landline doesn't mean it can't come over the air first which is cheaper.
I'm guessing 20 years from now.
2GBps is 16Gbps.
No one will ever need speeds that high, and just for that to be implanted into a house would be decades. A 'N' Router is only 300Mbps, so you are talking over 5 times faster than that. Plus then you need the technology to get that to each individual house. I don't think that will ever be possible of a mobile network.
That means you can download Navigon, 1.55GB in less than one second. I don't see that happening in the next 30 years. There is only so far you can go.
Yeah but that's assuming data speeds will evolve at a constant rate. What if some unforeseen advancement or need arises to where we can reach such data transfer speeds.
I already have a 2TB drive filled to capacity. I have many files packages that are well over 30gig and there is never enough speed in anything computer related.
We could use speeds that fast, we are just used to what we now know. But what of the future. 16gb aka 2gB per sec might be handy as our file sizes grow.