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Pragma · 04-04-2007, 04:03 PM

illdeviant: the reason that home network equipment tends to have such "large" numbers is because it's very easy to manufacture highspeed equipment and you can easily take advantage of those speeds at home (I've got five computers here on a 100Mbit switch, makes file copying very rapid).

In a workplace environment, it's also easy to take advantage of those numbers - we have three DS-3 lines coming into my place of work (one DS-3 = 44.736 Mbit) as well as sitting on a OC-48 SONET ring (2.3Gbit or so). Everyone has 100Mbit to the desk, some people have 1Gbit to the desk.

All depends on where you work that you can take advantage of them. I definitely agree that the telcos are holding back on the users in terms of speed, most countries (at least the ones that are better developed than us in terms of broadband saturation) push 10Mbit or more to the homes, sometimes 100Mbit.

04-04-2007, 04:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	illdeviant: the reason that home network equipment tends to have such "large" numbers is because it's very easy to manufacture highspeed equipment and you can easily take advantage of those speeds at home (I've got five computers here on a 100Mbit switch, makes file copying very rapid). In a workplace environment, it's also easy to take advantage of those numbers - we have three DS-3 lines coming into my place of work (one DS-3 = 44.736 Mbit) as well as sitting on a OC-48 SONET ring (2.3Gbit or so). Everyone has 100Mbit to the desk, some people have 1Gbit to the desk. All depends on where you work that you can take advantage of them. I definitely agree that the telcos are holding back on the users in terms of speed, most countries (at least the ones that are better developed than us in terms of broadband saturation) push 10Mbit or more to the homes, sometimes 100Mbit. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!