How Fast is fast Internet?

[DOGNY]

Internet OC-3 - OC-192 Starting at $8,750/month

Optical Carrier lines provide content providers, ASPâ??s/ISPâ??s and large enterprises with up to 622Mbps of dedicated Internet connectivity. An ideal solution for high end bandwidth users where connectivity is essential for operations.

Users:
â?¢ Large ISPâ??s/Enterprises
â?¢ Application Service Providers
â?¢ Content Providers Pricing:
â?¢ OC-3/OC-12/OC-48
â?¢ Burstable/Metered
â?¢ Fractional/Tiered

Too Expencive for you? Check this out:

Internet DS-3 Starting at $3000/month

DS-3 circuits provide businesses and ISPâ??s with up to 45MBps of dedicated Internet connectivity. This is an ideal solution for users who have outgrown their T-1 connections and are in search of unlimited, high-capacity access.

Users:
â?¢ Growing/Mid Size ISPâ??s
â?¢ Mid-Large Enterprises
â?¢ Application Service Providers Pricing:
â?¢ Burstable/Metered
â?¢ Fractional/Tiered

Still Too Expencive for you? Then Here's the old reliable:

Internet T-1 From $279/month

Internet T-1 is the standard for businesses seeking mission critical Internet connectivity. Providing up to 1.54 MBps of dedicated bandwidth, it is able to handle the demands of users operating in an increasingly data-centric world.

Users:
â?¢ Small-Mid Size Companies
â?¢ Application Service Providers
â?¢ Growing/Startup ISPâ??s Pricing:
â?¢ Multi Meg
â?¢ Burstable/Metered
â?¢ Fractional/Tiered

They forgot to mention DX Gamers -_-

http://www.bandwidthexperts.com/t1.html

[Bob]

$274 a month for a 1.54 MB/s connection

HA!

8 Megs for £40 a month/ish.

[Alistair]

There are higher OC's, 5gbps. =]

[AlexDenton]

There gets a point when in domestic situations one cannot determine the difference between connection speeds. The only situation i could think of in which a HUGE connection is needed would be in a large business sending gigabytes and terabytes of information in packets across huge areas of land.

Other than that, there isn't much point in exceeding about 5Mbps, considering the size of most files these days. However, I know it will change soon enough. There wont be much need for lossy compression soon enough, when we move up to speeds of 20Mbps as an average.

I say we just move with the time... there is no reason to spend lots of money on a monstrosity of a connection if it isn't going to be worth it.
Unless it's a fastrack to getting laid... in some wierd twisted technological society.

[MrBlackDX]

With pings low in local servers there is no real reason to have bigger connections, the next gaming gap needed bridging is international gaming servers, considering DX has no atlantic server or usa-asia server, then from my point of view there is no real progress in international connections.

[Alistair]

Need some big ass sata's...