Live in Shoreditch? Prepare for 2Gbps to your home.
By Ryan Block 
posted March 7th 2006 10:06AM
posted March 7th 2006 10:06AM
Ah, Shoreditch, London. You'll no longer be known as the community from whence Damien Hirst's career
sprang forth -- at least not around these parts, not as long as 20,000 residents of the East London neighborhood will
be getting fiber Internet connections at speeds up to 2Gbps. Yes, that's gigabits, friend, and with it those lucky
limies will have access to what we believe is the fastest fiber-to-the-home rollout we've yet seen, which even includes access
to IPTV streams of their local CCTV neighborhood watch cameras. No word on exactly when these East Londoners will be
getting access (we're estimating it'll be by the year 2020) or at what price, but we're already pricing property, if
you feel us.
We get 6mbps down & 512kb/s up with my ISP for about $30.00
And if people got those speeds they would need to buy a computer that can handle speeds like that, most only have 100mbps modems.
Hmmmm...maybe they have never heard of Provo, Utah. We've got fiber optic connections available with VOIP phone service, DTV, and 100Mbps connections between city and county subscribers.
Actually, there are some places in Sweden where normal home users can get a 1 Gigabit connection. In small town called "Lund" in Sweden, Jonas Birgersson who started Bredbandsbolaget (BBB) a few years ago which today is the second biggest ISP in Sweden, will provide 1 Gigabit connections for home users via his company "Labs 2". This is very very very rare though. This 1 Gigabit connection was announce by Labs 2 2004-11-30. I don't have any more current information about it.
More common is the 100 Mbit fibre connction from BBB. But most people got a normal DSLx connection from 1-28 Mbit.
Hmmmm...maybe they have never heard of Provo, Utah. We've got fiber optic connections available with VOIP phone service, DTV, and 100Mbps connections between city and county subscribers.
If they're anything like my ISP, they'll still only have a T3 to the Internet... Plus: how many sites can really support YOUR 2 Gb connection?
I have to agree with Chris even the fastest servers I've seen have and only 1Gb connections to the internal network ... maybe its time to start working on a way to peer-to-peer the internet? imagine it if you could get your web-site not just from one server but 15 at once a la bittorrent?
Believe it or not, this was done here in Indiana almost three years ago. The company I worked for was leasing dark fiber and providing the same IPTV, Internet, and CCTV services. It failed in grand telecomm fashion because of poor performance and broken proises. It sounds great, but the end result leaves much to be desired. I agree with Chris. It may be fast to your door, but the rest of the infrastructure will likely lack the same speed.
#4, It has to start somewhere ;)
£12 million from the governement to support a nonsensical "New Deal for the Communities" - this is SUPPOSED to be some sort of way of improving deprived areas, NOT an excuse for a commercial set top box pilot scheme for yet more pointless TV and advertising channels.
Anyways, I'm pissed because I'm clearly *just* outside the trial area, and I hope they can only connect through their boxes and not have any fun.
Homechoice (who provide the video service) have NO advertising in their Video on Demand service, neither do they have advertising channels (excect for VOD for particular products).
Homechoice's IPTV is available over much of London and has 8Mbit adsl. ADSL2+ later this year with HDTV
#1, 2Gbps = 2000 Mbps. Quite a bit faster than your 100Mbps connection buddy.
you might not be able to get 2 gigabit support from any websites, but you will be able to multi task at optimal speeds. like having more bitorrent downloads at the same time, while using slingbox, and then surfing the net without seeing any drop in speed.
If you look at the actual website www.digitalbridge.org.uk, it seems that the Times article is just plain wrong: consumers only get 8mbps adsl max to the ISP, then the ISP has a potential 2gbps link to the net as it's in Telehouse in London. Big deal!
1Gbps over fiber optic is availible in one town (but they are expanding) in Slovenia for 4185€/month (100 times more expensive then 10Mbs). I think this is only usefull for companies that need really fast connections.
I don't see any use for something like this for a home user (yet). I'm on 1Mbps DSL.. might go to 10Mbps when I swith ISP.. (40/15 is fastest avalible here) but I don't need anything faster.
Sheesh, I can't even get 2Mbps DSL at my house. This makes me even angrier.
This is funny, I was working there for 3 years in a 'media company' doing PPC... I know the area very well and I jsut wonder who will get the connection ?
#9 And? Yes, ofc it's faster. Would be strange otherwise.
I remember now, the date is fixed for the opening of the Olympic Games in 2012!!! Only kidding ;)
Bleedin' Shoreditch, used ta be quite shite 'ole. But now all the poncy gits 'ave moved in an made it a right preverbal garden of bloody eden they 'ave. Now day get dere 'ighspeed innernet and day think the light shines from dere be'inds. Roight...
Shoreditch is already very expensive to live in, blame that pickler Hirst!
This is bleedingly fast!
I live in Davenport,Florida a small population area and a no mans land as far as anytype of high speed internet is concerned. Would be ever thankful for anytype of high speed.
The limies are over 10 years away from this, but in some european countries like sweden and asian countries like hong kong they already got 1gbps home connections.
haha... in my city, we get 3mbps cable
some of my friends live JUST outside of the city limits, and therefore get only a 28.8k connection, cuz there isn't even a 56k connection installed out there
#22 - Totally agree with you. When I graduate in the summer, I'll be leaving London where I currently get 2Mb in our student house and moving back to a sub-village that consists of one house and two farms which is too far from our local ADSL enabled exchange to get an ADSL service. Oh well, back to 56k Dial-Up! Seriously though, rural towns and villages in the UK are being left behind in this new broadband era (as I guess is the case in the rest of the world). Bring on WiMax!
Man stories get mangled...its 1-24Mbits...from the project website
"Digital Bridge is a technically unique product. It draws on the existing infrastructure and cutting edge technology to deliver a series of groundbreaking products. Core to the proposition is the availability of high bandwidth connections to the home. PC broadband speeds of between 1 and 24 Mb/s are available and a blisteringly fast 2Gb/s shared connection when using the PC on TV. The PC on TV is a managed infrastructure that delivers a desktop computer-like service to the TV. "
http://www.digitalbridge.org.uk/content/technical.html
hmmm #1/#3, maybe people in Provo, Utah have never heard of shoreditch's better clubs, better beer, top quality graffiti and sensible drinking age. combine these with the even bigger advantages that it's not in utah and the fibre will be 20x faster, and i think we can safely ignore that sort of comment...
Um guys, 2 gigaBITS is 256 MEGABYTES PER SECOND
BYTES are made of 8 BITS
UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) is a municipality sponsored fibre to the home agency. At the moment you can get 100Mbps to home and 1Gbps for business lines...
No one measures bandwidth in MEGABYTES/second.