IBM announces that it has achieved a new technological advancement that will increase Internet speeds to 200 - 400 Gigabits per second

[geforceftw]

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-scientists-big.html 

 

This would be really cool except for the fact people still dont have fiber. And with all of the evil ISPs.

 

What are your thoughts about this "200 = 400 gigabit speed?

[Assassin]

Meanwhile Comcast sits on its huge pile of cash laughing at everyone living across United States. 

[ZetZet]

Cool, but then I have 50 down 50 up and see no reason to upgrade so...

[Kilerbomb]

Aaaaaand this will never come to consumers because of all the ISP monopolies.

[Darren]

I hope you realise this technology is not meant for the consumer, rather for data centres, large Tier 1 providers etc? No of course not, no one reads the article. I feel this forum feeds on the headlines and nothing else.

[juretrn]

You do realise this is a networking chip for large datacentres, right?

 

As @Darren said. 

[Joshua Ondangan]

200-400? awesome but I bet those greedy isp will charge gold.

 

for us 

 

3mbps (7b daily limit) = 29.05

5mbps (10gb daily limit) = 35.76

 

my plan is a little bit higher with no limit since I do need those but if they were to change the minimum or max to these 200-400 speed @ a very affordable price then it's golden.

[atomicmonkey101]

well downloading 4k movies and 8k in the futurem, this has potential.

 

Anyways, more is better right?

[ZuluGod]

I could see this working is a small amount of places, just that most routers that I see around wouldn't be capable with this kind of speed, And in the certain places that this would be used how well effectively would it be used? To me it seems like current speeds are good enough... Except for stupid Australian speeds

[Cwazywazy]

I could see this working is a small amount of places, just that most routers that I see around wouldn't be capable with this kind of speed, And in the certain places that this would be used how well effectively would it be used? To me it seems like current speeds are good enough... Except for stupid Australian speeds

Current speeds aren't good enough, especially when the ISPs charge a lot of money for low data caps. Everything is being downloaded now, not on CDs or DVDs. (Games for PCs and consoles, movies, etc.)

[TopWargamer]

ISPs need to stop being evil so we can start using this awesome technology.

[JaeDee884]

I just want 1mbps. I don't even have that.

[ForsakenLive]

Many people see this as an unnecessary solution.

But there are many doors, high speed Internet can open, any type of service could be easily a cloud service now, media consumption can change totally the way we now know it.

Sharing files, games, and media could be much improved.

There is a lot of possibilities when we talk about gigabit and higher speeds, but there is still no market or use for it. When the infrastructure is built, they will come.

[jksluv]

Many people see this as an unnecessary solution.

But there are many doors, high speed Internet can open, any type of service could be easily a cloud service now, media consumption can change totally the way we now know it.

Sharing files, games, and media could be much improved.

There is a lot of possibilities when we talk about gigabit and higher speeds, but there is still no market or use for it. When the infrastructure is built, they will come.

Of course faster speed opens up more possibility. But the problem is the ISP. They dont want spend extra penny for consumers. Why would they when they monopolize and knowing that they have no competition? Hell

[Xsilent(X)]

well downloading 4k movies and 8k in the futurem, this has potential.

 

Anyways, more is better right?

 

@That speed 32K will even stream

[XTankSlayerX]

This could probably mean faster consumer grade speeds?

[Xsilent(X)]

This could probably mean faster consumer grade speeds?

 

No faster private corparate speeds maybe in about 50 years to consumer

[atomicmonkey101]

@That speed 32K will even stream

 

exactly! room for the future.

[ForsakenLive]

Of course faster speed opens up more possibility. But the problem is the ISP. They dont want spend extra penny for consumers. Why would they when they monopolize and knowing that they have no competition? Hell

The only solution to this is going out with our pitchfork and torches (bigger speech) and demand for a better service that we know it's available and we know what's gonna cost. But again, there is many topics where people from every neighborhood should stand up to their government and big companies.

[Kamina]

For streaming, this is a must. 4K+ streaming!

[DudeWazap]

Cool, but then I have 50 down 50 up and see no reason to upgrade so...

More power is more better.

[Misanthrope]

Good news for the rest of the world, bad news for USA who insists on letting private interests dictate their telecom policies and intentionally be left behind in infrastructure.