Verizon has reported the results of a fiber-optic network trial they held in June for one lucky customer in Massachusetts, and it appears the customer received almost 1Gbit/sec speeds.
CW says "the customer received 925Mbit/sec. throughput to a server at its business location from a Verizon central office less than two miles away."
Speeds as high as 800Mbit/sec were achieved for servers ... [ read the full article ]
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Its been available for years; just not through local ISP providers as it always cost a lot of $ to install optic into your home, and monthly bills were $100+ but you could do it. I find it funny how they talk about Net Neutrality and bandwidth hog and yet companies want faster and faster. Bandwidth doesn't really bog down the net no more and if it really could, faster speeds would then represent quicker times to get bogged down.
The more I read up on this, the more it makes me sick cause corporations are just going to use this to make excuses to keep over charging on bandwidth usage, rather than playing fair with the consumers. I agree faster would be nice, but in all honesty with bandwidth caps decreasing or have unfair high fees for unlimited or high caps, it's just not gonna be worth the value of most consumers $.
