Internet to get 10 times faster
Four-minute movie downloads will be possible
  
CanWest News Service
Wednesday, January 09, 2008


LAS VEGAS -- Imagine being able to download a movie in four minutes. That's what's possible with new technology unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday -- technology that makes so-called high-speed Internet 10 times faster than today.

Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable company, plans to roll out the new service to Americans this year that will hit top speeds of 160 megabits per second.

Recent upgrades to Comcast's high-speed Internet network use a technology called DOCsis 3.0. Today's high-speed connections are capable of providing connection speeds of around 10 megabits per second. With the improvements, Comcast will be providing customers with speeds in excess of 100 megabits per second when the service launches this summer.

Using the service, a high-definition copy of the movie Batman Begins can be downloaded in less than four minutes. To tackle the same feat with a dial-up connection would take more than a week. With today's high-speed Internet networks, it would take about six hours.

Comcast's cable technologies are similar to those used by Rogers Cable in Canada

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I have a friend working on projects like this at UVic right now.   Just got a six figure gig in Switzerland to continue the work.  He says that over the air internet will be as fast as our DSL now.

fun stuff for finally getting those internet radio shows plugged into cars.

now does this mean Gates will have to reinvent the Windows operating system yet again so the computer can keep up to this lightning quick pace?  Ka-ching!