Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
That about sums it up for me. I'm on an "up to 8mb download speed" , yet i'm lucky to get a tad above 1mb due to being 2 miles from the telephone exchange and dear old BT throttling the lines. My neighbour upstairs has cable broadband and is getting 20mb's constant..... I'd wager that for most of us it's not much use to have over 5mb's,
if it really is that and constant. Gamers and professionals will need superfast connexions, but the mean in the street ? Nah....
SHJ
If only you knew how much that sort of infrastructure would cost to provide, and how inefficient it would be to have it constantly reserved for a single person at all times.