'World's fastest' home internet service hits Japan with Sony's help, 2Gbps down

[richardginn]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/16/w...-net/#comments

I need this speed and I NEED IT NOW!!!!!

[proxops-pete]

o.O I'd be happy with 100 Mbps!

[kujoe2002]

Wow.. just Wow.

[kujoe2002]

I immediately remember this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=0ilMx7k7mso

[Skywize]

Totally useless since the internet can't keep up if you got your entire neighborhood suddenly try to download
their porn at those speeds. Also i don't think your harddrive can sustain that kinda write speed.
Comcast just upped my speed, went from 12 Mbps down to 20, no diff at all in actual use since
websites etc didn't just start providing more bandwidth on their end.

Looks good on paper though.

[James]

Also i don't think your harddrive can sustain that kinda write speed.

Then you shouldn't still be using spinning media. 2Gbps ~ 200MB/s. Easily doable for an SSD these days, heck, even a 3Gbps SSD can handle that. 6Gbps SSD's would be able to handle two of those connections in shotgun.

[Steven P Jobs]

Then you shouldn't still be using spinning media. 2Gbps ~ 200MB/s. Easily doable for an SSD these days, heck, even a 3Gbps SSD can handle that. 6Gbps SSD's would be able to handle two of those connections in shotgun.

And would be full in a few minutes

[James]

And would be full in a few minutes

If we're talking about sequential access, let's figure that out... 200MB/s for say... 200GB of usable space on a modern reasonably priced SSD. That's ~17 minutes to max your SSD full. Not sure why you are downloading 200GB in one fell swoop, but whatever.

Now let's go with more realistic scenarios: a DVD iso image (For installing an OS/software) or a game image via a digital content delivery network (Steam).

4.7GB = ~24 seconds to download the latest CentOS image.
20GB = ~2 minutes to download modern game download on Steam/Origin/whatever.

A pipe that big is more about not having to wait for content when you want it rather than constantly maxing it out for hours or days on end. Basically a pipe like that is what it will take for always-on digital-content-only devices like the rumored next Xbox.