Paris homes get 2.5Gb Net connection

[Steve]

Paris homes get 2.5Gb net connections

Most of us in the UK (and US) think that 8Mb broadband is fast and that 24Mb, now starting to roll our over Europe, is super-awesome. Now behold - 2.5Gb downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream for just €70 (£48/$89) a month with free installation.

Catch is that you have to be in one of 6 districts in Paris, the city of love - which seems to love broadband.

Although this is a trial to just 100 homes the system, which uses optical fibre, will not just be for internet access but for digital TV and telephone too. This still leaves a lot of bandwidth for your internet access. If the full 2.5Gbps was dedicated to internet access it would be 2.5 times faster than Hong Kong's 1Gbps home internet service. France Telecom has laid down 100km of cable for this trial which is not a small sum to pay.

The cost is a major reason why many phone operators are reluctant to lay down fibre and banish copper forever.

The bottleneck then becomes your home network and computer hardware, since not many users currently have their homes wired up with gigabit ethernet kit.



http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/07...t_connections/

[DevilDog#1]

Nice.

[.enfo.]

*gasp

bet that has an amazing DL rate

[-Tigger-]

gotta love the french.. lol

wonder when they UK will actually get their 8mb full speed to everyone? instead of this "up to 8mb" service they use now

[Steve]

hmm should be soon or it is being by-passed because ADSL max (upto 24meg) is being rolled out aready

[bigsmellyfart]

Originally posted by Steve
Paris homes get 2.5Gb net connections

Most of us in the UK (and US) think that 8Mb broadband is fast and that 24Mb, now starting to roll our over Europe, is super-awesome. Now behold - 2.5Gb downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream for just €70 (£48/$89) a month with free installation.

Catch is that you have to be in one of 6 districts in Paris, the city of love - which seems to love broadband.

Although this is a trial to just 100 homes the system, which uses optical fibre, will not just be for internet access but for digital TV and telephone too. This still leaves a lot of bandwidth for your internet access. If the full 2.5Gbps was dedicated to internet access it would be 2.5 times faster than Hong Kong's 1Gbps home internet service. France Telecom has laid down 100km of cable for this trial which is not a small sum to pay.

The cost is a major reason why many phone operators are reluctant to lay down fibre and banish copper forever.

The bottleneck then becomes your home network and computer hardware, since not many users currently have their homes wired up with gigabit ethernet kit.



http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/07...t_connections/

must be for all the sex videos there in paris

[Hellfighter]

Originally posted by bigsmellyfart
must be for all the sex videos there in paris

will we known that they are the sex freak junky of the world now they get a lot more of it.

[katana*GFR*]

hehe Fiber Optic is already beeing rolled out here, we started with that ike 7 years ago... Now it is slowly coming availeble for private users, and depending on the host its about 40 euro a month.

[Scattergun]

I wish i had 2.4 gb connection would be nice but it is a little pricey i only pay 32$ a month for 15 mb down and 1.5mb up

[Lucky]

awesome :P