I'm off to Bournemouth

Rik · May 07, 2008, 15:34:51

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7387836.stm

100Mbps fibre to the home.

Malc · May 07, 2008, 15:43:34

Thats were all the pensioners go, isn't it?

madasahatter · May 07, 2008, 15:44:43

Wonder why they chose Bournemouth, when I believe they have the highest concentration of OAPs in the UK?

Rik · May 07, 2008, 15:45:41

Quote from: Malc on May 07, 2008, 15:43:34
Thats were all the pensioners go, isn't it?

I've got an uncle down there, I wonder...

Rik · May 07, 2008, 15:46:56

Quote from: madasahatter on May 07, 2008, 15:44:43
Wonder why they chose Bournemouth, when I believe they have the highest concentration of OAPs in the UK?

I wouldn't have been my first choice, Mad (Milton Keynes would have been!), I suspect this is off the back of the commercial involvement there.

Cookiemonster · May 07, 2008, 15:48:13

Its

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I want 100Mbps to my house!!

Rik · May 07, 2008, 15:51:38

One day... Of course, by then, the rest of the world will be on terrabit connections.

Glenn · May 07, 2008, 17:03:33

Do you have to have the router near you toilets?

Rik · May 07, 2008, 17:04:31

I guess they'll be changing the name of the woosh test, Glenn.

Sebby · May 07, 2008, 19:01:52

100Mbps fibre... Nice. 8)

Rik · May 07, 2008, 19:08:23

It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.

Malc · May 07, 2008, 19:09:15

Moves like sh*t in a sewer.

Cookiemonster · May 07, 2008, 19:13:24

Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:08:23
It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.

then again Rik Japan have had this kind of speeds for sometime now so yet again us Brits/Scots

are well behind...

Rik · May 07, 2008, 19:17:26

We always are, Jester, except for taxation, where we lead the world.

Cookiemonster · May 07, 2008, 19:20:19

Oh yeah you couldn't be more right there.

Sebby · May 07, 2008, 23:10:17

Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 19:08:23
It's hard to imagine, isn't it, but we're talking about running the internet at the same speed as we do a wired LAN (it's going to make 11g look a bit sickly). Online data storage becomes a serious possibility, VoD a doddle, Linux distros in minutes, webcams at serious resolutions. It really would change the way we use the 'net.

It sounds like bliss. One day...

psp83 · May 08, 2008, 00:35:49

Well this takes the p*ss..

I wonder what the FUP or "caps" will be on some ISP's, no names TISCALI...

Upto 100Mbps with a 7gb monthly cap, or in tiscali case. download more than 30mb in one evening and get capped to 56k speeds!!!

Sebby · May 08, 2008, 07:54:07

I thought all Tiscali users have 56k speeds?

Tacitus · May 08, 2008, 08:34:47

Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2008, 15:34:51
100Mbps fibre to the home.

I noticed the other day that an office block on the other side of town is advertising 100Mbps broadband as one of the advantages of locating there.

Out here in the sticks I'm struggling to get a reliable 2M at present. Parrots and sick come to mind...

Rik · May 08, 2008, 08:53:39

I feel your pain. I know what 100Mbps would feel like as my LAN runs at that. Imagining what I could do with that sort of speed from the 'net is the stuff of daydreams.

Gary · May 08, 2008, 09:10:56

Bournemouth

been there did a gig at the BIA, what a weird place, loads of youngsters in hoods and loads of targets, Saying that some of those OAP's may need the extra fibre

Ann · May 11, 2008, 18:18:59

We'll all be OAPs tomorrow.. there's nought wrong with catering for me in my old age