February 2nd, 2009
Today on Gizmodo, there was an article announcing that Korea claims that they will be supplying 1Gbps broadband connections by the year 2012. How does the U.S. stack up? Currently some of the fastest broadband connection offerings available for home use is offered by Comcast with their 50Mbps offering for $150 a month. Verizon also offers 50Mbps download speeds over their FiOS fiber. Charter is in the process of offering 60Mbps. Unfortunately, I don’t live in an area that offers such awesome download speeds. The best I can do at the moment is 16Mbps.
It makes me wonder when T1′s will be obsolete, at least, bundling them for business use like in a hotel atmosphere. If you did not know, most hotels across the United States, whether it be a Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott or... Continue Reading...
Tags: bandwidth, ds3, hilton, hospitality, hotel, hyatt, starwood, t1, Technology
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May 25th, 2008
Having more bandwidth is costly, having a lot of bandwidth is expensive! For this one week event, I brought in a 6 mbps link through Covad Wireless for $3,000. The $3,000 gives me this 6 mbps ethernet drop off with a full Class-C of IP’s for one month. What type of speeds did I actually get?
I did a bunch of tests and under the best scenario, I got about 8 mbps download and 5 mbps. Blazing speeds compared to the usual T-1 lines at 1.5 mbps. How did this bandwidth fare for the 400 wireless users? I believe there was more than 400 people, and they were not using this bandwidth to do some general browsing. The entire bandwidth spectrum was eaten up and used up. However, the network held up with good signal provided through 20 wireless access points. Sure, the bandwidth... Continue Reading...
Tags: bandwidth, circuit, covad wireless, ds3, mbps, uplink
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May 24th, 2008
For about $60 to $80 per month, you are able to get high speed internet access at home via DSL, cable or now FIOS through Verizon (limited to certain areas). To the right, you can see a speed test I conducted on a DSL connection at home. Sure it is a decent download speed but the upload is a bit slow. That’s the problem with most home connections, the download is fast but upload is slow. Even with typical cable providers of internet access, you have this as well. I think most DSL and cable access have download speeds of about 5-6 mbps and upload speeds up to 1 mbps.
Now let us compare that to true T-1 lines as I see at work. As a service provider, we get T-1 lines from AT&T, MCI, Qwest, Verizon, etc. A single T-1 line gives you exactly 1.544 mbps download and upload... Continue Reading...
Tags: bandwidth, covad, ds3, internet, nxt1, speed, t1
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