this sounds good. some finnish company to start sell internet that has speeds of 100mbp/s! damn thats fast!

Quote:

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Broadband Internet access via TV cables will be able to hit 100 megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said Wednesday.

Similar data transmission speeds are possible over fiber networks, but these cost much more for the operators to build.

"This is a cost-efficient technology as we use the cable TV networks which are already in place," Jukka Rinnevaara, chief executive of small-cap Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste, told Reuters.

Teleste, whose rivals include big U.S. firms Scientific Atlanta (up $1.11 to $38.31, Research) and Cisco Systems Inc. (up $0.52 to $20.17, Research), said it would early next year bring to the market its ethernet-to-home product, which will give consumers access to 100Mb/s speed.

The sector is closely followed by big technology firms. Last month Sweden's Ericsson (up $0.04 to $34.07, Research) offered $51 million to buy Norwegian firm AXXESSIT, which makes broadband ethernet access equipment for telecom operators. To accelerate the transmission speed Teleste fits ethernet -- a cheap and standard transport method for Internet data over broadband networks -- into cable television networks.

It said it expects first rival technology to be on the market at the earliest in the second quarter of 2007.

Teleste is running a field-trial with cable TV service provider Essent in Netherlands, but not yet at the top speeds it expects most homes will need within a few years.

"Based on our research, 30 megabits per second is the absolute minimum in future homes. Just one TV program would take 10-20 megabits per second of this alone. So, very fast we would reach a need for 30 megabits, and also for 50 megabits per second," Pekka Rissanen, a Teleste executive told a news conference.

Rissanen said the cost of connecting a home with the new ethernet-to-the-home technology can vary between 50 ($60.28) and 200 ($241).

CEO Rinnevaara declined to say how much the new technology could boost Teleste's sales or profits in the next 12 months.

wait it gets even better (this is unbelievable): http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/OC.htm

My bugged wireless gives me 2-10 mbps.

EDIT: Thats if it doesn't randomly go out like it does. You should deathmatch in that connection, its really fun. You kill someone, and another guy comes by with a gun that lags you, you die.

Actually, you'll be suprised to hear that your wrong in many ways. Japan is a unique land- stuck in the old yet way ahead. Does it suprise snarkpit people to know that most people in Japan still use Floppy disks? They use the 10mb ones though.

Like alot of technology they show in films or TV etc, it isn't really used much. Japanese mobiles are the same as ours but more unique looking. The general public is less interested by using 3G and crap like that, and more interested with flashing lights and how much hello kitty they can latch onto a key chain on the side of thier mobile

Heres a good example showing how similar they are to us- http://www.nokia.co.jp/index.shtml

Notice anything highly advanced? I don't. The mainstream technology always gets spread within a year. Its the wierd advanced stuff that nobody can afford which you see on these technology programs.

We aren't lagging at all when it comes to most stuff. Theres only a few things, but thats mainly because these other countries are test countries, and BT are scabby. Did you know they make over a billion pounds profit a year, yet are in billions of pounds worth of debt?! Strange eh?

From what I'm guessing, BT, being money makers, are dragging out the services which cost less to run and gain most money for as long as possible. With 56k they prolly had s**t equipment, and charged like ?20 a month. If we all had 1Gbit connection then BT would need amazing computers and a huge amount of stuff, and they couldn't charge more than ?60 a month for TV and Net per month, so they'd prolly go bust.

i dont pay the bills though, $loth, so i have no chose in the matter. plus my parents are really old fashinoned:

"HDTV?! Well if our TV works then we dont need to get a new one!"