Why can't the rest of the world be like Japan?

[Hypertext]

Wasn't the worlds quickest connection first found by like an old lady in Sweden!!?

Indeed. He did it to show that any internet speed is possible.

[Recursion]

No, a guy had a direct link or something setup for his grandma.

[N!ck]

Speed is as fast as you want it to be, the bottleneck is when there is a mixture of old and new technology, something may be going VERY fast, but something else will bring it to a halt.

Sweden have very good speeds too.

I beg to differ on one post below the OP -- I live in Evanston, IL, a very suburban city near Chicago, and I STILL can't get fibre optic. I can get it in a few weeks though. Downtown city's get very good speeds though, even then, my first thing applies.

The reason Japan's speeds are so fast, is that 95% of their technology is state of the art, as they are such a small country, they upgrade as soon as the new stuff comes out - therefore they will always be ahead of us when it comes to speed.

That is where 'the grid' comes in. The grid is a new "internet", basically it's an internet, yes internet is a vowel, contrarily to how people prepend the word with "the", an internet where only new technology is used, making it hundreds of times faster than the current internet, of course in time it'll become the old internet, then we'll need Grid 2.0. But by then, I'm hoping that the human race will be spanning several galaxies, and then we will have the internet fully integrated into our lives, making navigating it a lot easier, using some sort of super technology, technology can only get so fast that we can recognize a difference.

Sorry for the verbosity.
Edit: Just saw some posts above about The Grid. They are valid, but if The Grid is implemented properly, and replaces current technology, everyone would benefit, of course, the problem is, unless it is owned by Government/UN/A sole private sector, not everyone will update at once, giving us exactly the same problems of the current internet.

Gosh. We speak about "the" internet as though it was yesterday's news.

Note, i said some parts of Canada . The grid can't be implemented. It's just basically a load of high speed OC carriers linked together. The same as what exists already for the Internet but with the latest carriers. All parts of the Internet are slowly upgraded to faster carriers as new ones are released and older ones get cheaper to implement anyway.

Wasn't the worlds quickest connection first found by like an old lady in Sweden!!?

Yeah, some one at Cisco installed the latest carrier they'd developed in is mother's (or grandmother? can't remember) house.

[Axel]

That's like a movie in 10 seconds.. I think?

[N!ck]

That's like a movie in 10 seconds.. I think?

80 seconds .

[DaveTaylor]

80 seconds .

depends on the size

[N!ck]

depends on the size

Standard 700MB rip .

[Jordy]

80 seconds .

I guess but this would also depend on the server speeds at the other end too wouldn't it (Torrents would still be useless ). I imagine a movie store like iTunes would have quick server's but most places won't have the speed to upload as fast as that download surely?

The grid would be useless for most home users anyway, if you check your ethernet ports etc you'll only be able to cope with about 300MBPS atm. Laptops generally manage about 120MBPS max. Obviously this'll change in the future, but the majority of home users couldn't make much use of the grid.

The idea of the grid is that everything has to run perfectly for it to be VERY quick.

[N!ck]

I guess but this would also depend on the server speeds at the other end too wouldn't it (Torrents would still be useless ).

I reckon a BitTorrent source would be one of the best ways to do it actually, providing the swarm wasn't a bunch of leeching *******s. Webservers usually cap the maximum speed they can upload at per connection so that one peer can't choke them.

I imagine a movie store like iTunes would have quick server's but most places won't have the speed to upload as fast as that download surely?

Quick connection but many users = divided bandwidth.

The grid would be useless for most home users anyway, if you check your ethernet ports etc you'll only be able to cope with about 300MBPS atm. Laptops generally manage about 120MBPS max. Obviously this'll change in the future, but the majority of home users couldn't make much use of the grid.

The idea of the grid is that everything has to run perfectly for it to be VERY quick.

You mean Mbps? And the max sustained read/write bandwidth on a standard hard drive is only like 50-60MB/s anyway .

[Axel]

I guess but this would also depend on the server speeds at the other end too wouldn't it (Torrents would still be useless ). I imagine a movie store like iTunes would have quick server's but most places won't have the speed to upload as fast as that download surely?

True true... but still pretty fast.. a minute or two.