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Submitted by souri on
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There's an interesting article over at [url="http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/1429246.shtml?tid=95"]Slashdot reporting[/url] that the Japanese government is "forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010."

10Gbit online connection at home! That's just plain nutty. Now, with my lame calculations using Moore's Law, we'd have 48ghz computers by then too, but I'm curious as to what you think are the possibilities of online gaming in the future. Give me your speculations, wishes, and worries for the direction of online gaming with that much bandwidth and power available...

Huge online battles like those seen in Helms Deep for example?

Submitted by Aven on Mon, 30/08/04 - 7:15 PM Permalink

One that I heard of earlier this year, was the FCC's attempt at BPL (Broadband over Power Lines). Although not as fast as the Japanese experiment, it would be far more accessable. If you have a computer, you could have Broadband :)

http://www.eei.org/magazine/editorial_content/nonav_stories/2004-03-01-…
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-03-03-plugin-net…
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bpl7.htm

Submitted by Blitz on Mon, 30/08/04 - 11:41 PM Permalink

It sounds nice, but will internet routers/servers etc. meet the demand of 10Gb connections :P Packetloss and latency could explode!
CYer, Blitz

Submitted by LiveWire on Tue, 31/08/04 - 12:21 AM Permalink

of course in australia most of us will have only just upgraded to broadband cos telstra, etc have decided to stop ripping us off with outrages prices and moved on to extort the 10gbit hopefuls instead...

Submitted by Major Clod on Tue, 31/08/04 - 12:55 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by LiveWire

of course in australia most of us will have only just upgraded to broadband cos telstra, etc have decided to stop ripping us off with outrages prices and moved on to extort the 10gbit hopefuls instead...

Add to that they will have also decided to actually provide broadband access to most areas around capital cities.

Submitted by Rahnem on Tue, 31/08/04 - 2:38 AM Permalink

Japan is sort of lucky considering they have a huge amount of people over a small area. They can afford to lay fibre optic cables all over the country. Australia telecommunication network is antiquated to say the least. Actually, of all the first world countries I would bet we have the worst.

Posted by souri on
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There's an interesting article over at [url="http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/1429246.shtml?tid=95"]Slashdot reporting[/url] that the Japanese government is "forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010."

10Gbit online connection at home! That's just plain nutty. Now, with my lame calculations using Moore's Law, we'd have 48ghz computers by then too, but I'm curious as to what you think are the possibilities of online gaming in the future. Give me your speculations, wishes, and worries for the direction of online gaming with that much bandwidth and power available...

Huge online battles like those seen in Helms Deep for example?


Submitted by Aven on Mon, 30/08/04 - 7:15 PM Permalink

One that I heard of earlier this year, was the FCC's attempt at BPL (Broadband over Power Lines). Although not as fast as the Japanese experiment, it would be far more accessable. If you have a computer, you could have Broadband :)

http://www.eei.org/magazine/editorial_content/nonav_stories/2004-03-01-…
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-03-03-plugin-net…
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bpl7.htm

Submitted by Blitz on Mon, 30/08/04 - 11:41 PM Permalink

It sounds nice, but will internet routers/servers etc. meet the demand of 10Gb connections :P Packetloss and latency could explode!
CYer, Blitz

Submitted by LiveWire on Tue, 31/08/04 - 12:21 AM Permalink

of course in australia most of us will have only just upgraded to broadband cos telstra, etc have decided to stop ripping us off with outrages prices and moved on to extort the 10gbit hopefuls instead...

Submitted by Major Clod on Tue, 31/08/04 - 12:55 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by LiveWire

of course in australia most of us will have only just upgraded to broadband cos telstra, etc have decided to stop ripping us off with outrages prices and moved on to extort the 10gbit hopefuls instead...

Add to that they will have also decided to actually provide broadband access to most areas around capital cities.

Submitted by Rahnem on Tue, 31/08/04 - 2:38 AM Permalink

Japan is sort of lucky considering they have a huge amount of people over a small area. They can afford to lay fibre optic cables all over the country. Australia telecommunication network is antiquated to say the least. Actually, of all the first world countries I would bet we have the worst.