CastleCops® - The Internet is about to get a lot faster

seafsee writes "The Internet is about to get a lot faster
Unfortunately, not fast enough or anytime soon!

LOUISVILLE, Colo. (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The speed with which data moves around the Internet could jump more than 1,000 percent with the approval by a Colorado group of a new cable standard.

The industry's standard-settings unit, CableLabs, plans to endorse this month technology that will let operators boost speeds from 400 percent to 1,600 percent over existing lines, USA Today said Wednesday.

Motorola and Cisco are among the companies offering alternative methods to increase broadband speeds by linking together the bandwidth used for four or more conventional TV channels.

While cable operators now usually transmit broadband at 3 million bits per second, a download of a billion bits per second is completely doable, Comcast Corp. chief executive Brian Roberts said this week.

Modems that can handle the new speeds are expected on the market by 2008.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International.

Hopefully, by the time these hit the market, some other, newer technology will not have wasted the efforts and expense in developing this technology.

This could be used now, never mind three years from now!
Even three years from now, I wonder how many people will still click a link for a dubious download accelerator, when all that speed will be available to them?

While it would be nice if 2008 marked the passing of download accelerator programs, I am a pessimist by nature when it comes to these matters. I can't really say if a bonafide program of this type actually exists. In the past, while still a dial-up user, I tried several. Most had a negative impact on my computer. Two actually worked, and worked rather well, but they seemed to come at a price - even for something touted as a free download.

When I upgraded to cable service, the one I still used, Netscape Download Manager seemed to have the opposite effect from what I was used to, and it became totally rediculous on smaller, shorter downloads. It was wanting to set cookies, load another page or two, meanwhile wasting the bandwidth it was supposed to be saving. The other one, supplied by C|Net, Gamespot Downloader gave me my first real experience with spyware affecting my computer's performance. Somewhere deep in www.grc.com is a discussion of what was discovered about both of these programs. Steve Gibson is also a programmer, and many of his downloads are available for free.

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