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It's amazing how quickly technology is changing. I remember paying $350 a month for dual ISDN lines and getting a whopping 128Kbps. People were literally movin
by redm 9y ago
It's amazing how quickly technology is changing. I remember paying $350 a month for dual ISDN lines and getting a whopping 128Kbps. People were literally moving to certain apartments that had "high speed" 100Mbps connection shared to the entire complex.
I realize this article is about cable providers promising one thing, and delivering another, I think it's interesting how quickly we and technology adapt to high-speed links and immediately demands MORE MORE MORE! It's a great time to be alive.
- Retric 9y ago10 years ago people where getting 1Gbps bandwidth for <100$ a month in some areas. Talking about how fast things are moving when you reference stuff from 20+ years ago is hardly convincing. PS: 10Gbps is being rolled out in some area yet many places are still at under 1/1,000th those speeds. The gap has nothing to do with back-haul capacity it's all about monopolies squeezing there customers as much as possible. Consider, South Korea has 1Gbit/s connections for $20 per month. Yet people in the US are paying ~10x as much for 1/10th the bandwidth.