I was just wondering how fast is German broadband, I've read a few articles and they all agree that the US is eons behind everyone else. According to WSJ today you can get speds up to 24 mps a second vs 1.5 in the US. I have no idea what those numbers mean other than slow broad band in the US and lighting fast in France and other places, like Korea etc. l
opps its megabits, still have no idea what it means
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How Fast is German Broadband?
vs the US
Now I'm the last person to ask on stuff like this, but I got told that it doesn't matter how fast the broadband is as the internet its self only has a top speed of 1GHz
Megabits per second = Millions of bits per second. One character of text takes 8 bits (usually).
The speeds you are mentioning are the downlink speeds for the connection to the Internet Service Provider. This determines the maximum speed at which you could download stuff from the ISP e.g. 24 million bits per second. Another important factor is the uplink speed, which is typically much lower (128K - 384K) - this is the speed at which you can send stuff to the local ISP.
The highest internet access apeeds available are in places like Japan and Korea - users are often connected at 100M or even Gigabit speeds to Metropolitan Area Networks.
The Internet access speeds avaiable in a given area depend on the available telcoms infrastructure which in turn, depends (mostly) on the local population density.
After that it gets more complicated - some local and regional ISPs only have a few links with other ISPs and these are shared amongst all their customers, so the bandwidth available to you to any given point on the Internet may be much lower than your downlink speed. Large telcos like Deutsche Telekom have substabtial fibre infrastructure between major towns and cities, so national bandwidth is not normally an issue. Internationally, things get more complicated as international bandwidth is expensive and there is not so much avaiable for Internet use.
Much depends on how you use the Internet. For downloading files from a particular company, the restriction is usually dependant on that company's servers and Internet connection. For Peer-to-Peer file sharing, things are very different - many connections are used between many different file sharers, who could be all over the Internet. The total bandwidth when P2P file sharing is used will typically fill a broadband link.
The speeds you are mentioning are the downlink speeds for the connection to the Internet Service Provider. This determines the maximum speed at which you could download stuff from the ISP e.g. 24 million bits per second. Another important factor is the uplink speed, which is typically much lower (128K - 384K) - this is the speed at which you can send stuff to the local ISP.
The highest internet access apeeds available are in places like Japan and Korea - users are often connected at 100M or even Gigabit speeds to Metropolitan Area Networks.
The Internet access speeds avaiable in a given area depend on the available telcoms infrastructure which in turn, depends (mostly) on the local population density.
After that it gets more complicated - some local and regional ISPs only have a few links with other ISPs and these are shared amongst all their customers, so the bandwidth available to you to any given point on the Internet may be much lower than your downlink speed. Large telcos like Deutsche Telekom have substabtial fibre infrastructure between major towns and cities, so national bandwidth is not normally an issue. Internationally, things get more complicated as international bandwidth is expensive and there is not so much avaiable for Internet use.
Much depends on how you use the Internet. For downloading files from a particular company, the restriction is usually dependant on that company's servers and Internet connection. For Peer-to-Peer file sharing, things are very different - many connections are used between many different file sharers, who could be all over the Internet. The total bandwidth when P2P file sharing is used will typically fill a broadband link.
What I find interesting is that I can get high speed internet plus 3 phone numbers - ISDN, off 2 40 year old copper wires. When they hooked up my DSL they didn't rewire anything, just 2 old wires coming out of the wall.
Along the same lines can you buy dual layer blank DVDs? I found out when I started copying DVDs that you need to shrink them to fit a on DVD. If they put movies on dual layers why can't you buy them.
I must say the software does a fab job of shrinking them, no lost of quality at all!
Along the same lines can you buy dual layer blank DVDs? I found out when I started copying DVDs that you need to shrink them to fit a on DVD. If they put movies on dual layers why can't you buy them.
I must say the software does a fab job of shrinking them, no lost of quality at all!
Deutsche Telekom will, supposedly, be starting VDSL this summer with connection speeds of 50 Mbit/s (I have also heard that customers of CityNetCologne will be able to get 100 Mbit/s!).
This uses a new technology that can send data down fibre optic cables (which most households already have connected) instead of copper wires. Using Fibre optic cables means that the traditional problem of distance from the exhange is eliminated, so that more rural communities will also be able to have high-speed internet.
This uses a new technology that can send data down fibre optic cables (which most households already have connected) instead of copper wires. Using Fibre optic cables means that the traditional problem of distance from the exhange is eliminated, so that more rural communities will also be able to have high-speed internet.
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