Consumer Broadband Evolution, Not Revolution
from the people-want-it dept
With every politician these days talking about how important it is for the government to stimulate broadband growth, they might want to look at the research. It appears that it's not the availability of broadband that's the issue any more. People don't sign up because they don't like the price, or they don't see compelling applications. However, there is clearly pent up demand, as many people say they're planning to sign up for high speed access in the near future. Online gaming seems like a major driver in convincing people to move to high speed connections. I wonder if the various government proposals include plans to get more companies to create online games? Probably not.
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What about faster dialup modems?
Will this not create an additional hurdle to broadband adoption? Or even spell disaster for existing DSL's that don't fare much better anyway.
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Re: What about faster dialup modems?
Why?
Because the cost of an ISP offering 24/7 high-speed internet with a static IP + the cost of a dedicated phone line would exceed what I'm paying for DSL, not to mention I would have to buy another modem, something I am reluctant to ever do again.
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Re: What about faster dialup modems?
And what if such modems came standard with the next generation of PC's?
As it is, retail PC's come with rather useless DVD drives, when the same space could have been used for something like jazz drives.
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