How fast would you like your connection to go?

[pctech]

Single internal network connections over fibre can now run at 40Gbps (and in some parts of Sweden it is possible to get a domestic connection running at this speed) and research is currently ongoing to accelerate this to 100 Gbps.

If DSL were abandoned and you could have a fibre feed directly to your home how fast would you like it to go and how much would you be willing to pay for such high speeds?

[Rik]

How long is a piece of string, Mitch? It would depend on what the bandwidth cost and what content was available for me.

[pctech]

I think 100 Meg Ethermet would be enough for me and if it wasn't so pricey would have such a connection installed.

[Rik]

Presumably you have a purpose in mind? For me, the move to FTTC will be primarily driven by a desire for stability, I'm not sure I'll use the extra speed as I can't type any faster.

[pctech]

I'd just like the speed to be honest.

I find that if I'm watching a webcast running off a server in the States for example it tends to buffer, if I do it at work where we have a 1 Gbps pipe to the net and 100 Mbps to the desktop it tends to much less.

[Rik]

I only get as far as YouTube.

[dujas]

20up/100down Mbps would do for now

Would be enough to trivialise any current download requirement i.e. games off Steam, as well as being capable of streaming 2x 1080P video feeds with some still spare. Obviously infrastructure and peering have to be able to keep up. There's no point having headline grabbing speeds, as in South Korea, if you only see a fraction of that when downloading from a server located outside the country.

[Bill]

I'm not sure I'll use the extra speed as I can't type any faster.

That's about how I feel

My old 500MHz P3 was faster than I was, and it wasn't until software bloat overtook the hardware that I really felt the need to upgrade. Same with comms, fibre is simply more stable than copper, the extra speed is mostly a bonus.

Subject to the aforementioned software bloat

[pctech]

We do have one of the best Internet Exchange Points in the world, LINX which is mutually owned by the members so I think its up to the challenge.

[psp83]

10/20meg up and 100meg down for me.

Reason : For my job

[Technical Ben]

I'd like it to be faster than the speed of light. Then I can know what the future is. And get next weeks lottery number. Oh, forget the lottery number, just knowing the weather would do. 

[zappaDPJ]

For me the primary concerns are stability and low latency. Providing I have that then fast transfer rates are a luxury I don't particularly need. 8 Mb/s actually does everything that I require but I would like a much faster upstream. 2 Mb/s+ would be great. Around once or twice a week I do need to shift gigabytes but I've got used to doing that as a background task so it's no big deal.

[pctech]

If it was within my power I'd like to roll out an Ethernet based network so it would be symmetrical (100 Meg down/100 up)

[Rik]

Let's go for a gigabit while we're there.

[pctech]

Yes would be nice.

[Glenn]

But how many gigabits 

[Rik]

One will do to start with.

[pctech]

I think we are talking 2110 before that will happen.

[Rik]

I may just not be around.

[pctech]

Me neither

[Rik]

How will we ever know?

[pctech]

And if we do, I doubt we'll care

[Rik]

I'd love to be able to time travel and drop in to observe society at various points both past and future. In the same way, I'd like to have grown up i multiple cultures so that I could better understand other people.

[faircot]

I'd love to be able to time travel and drop in to observe society at various points both past and future

It would be fascinating to understand how the St George's flag never seems to be flown on 23 April but became hijacked by Ingerland football supporters for their chavmobiles.

[Rik]

Good point, they seem to everywhere today.