Intenet in Portugal at 1 Gbps

[Tiago]

Not quite. 1Gbps = 1024Mbps = 128MBps

Still, it is fast.

huuuuuummmmmm ....


yes, that's it....

[Harrison]

It's the old marketing trick. Use bits instead of bytes to make things sound much faster or much larger.

Remember the 16-bit cartridge sizes stated by Sega and Nintendo? Constantly trying to outdo each other on their latest games having the largest cartridge size. They used to state things like "latest game arriving on largest cart yet. 256Mb. However when you actually work that out its 32MB. Still, at the time that was qite large for a game. Especially when you compared it to Amiga and PC games at the same time.

And regarding network speeds. 128MB/s is still faster than most peoples LANs, and those can transfer files pretty fast between PCs. I want a broadband connection that fast! Not the 3Mbit one I'm currently stuck on due to rural location.

[Tiago]

I cannot imagine such speed....
i actualy have 5mbps (the minimum for my ISP) witch i can do a +/- 500 kb/s stable download and i think that's good.... i wounder what would be with 1gbps ....