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I wish I lived in France

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I wish I lived in France

Postby dada on Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:23 am

slashdot.org wrote:2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes

"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"



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Why cant we get that kinda speed plus cable and telephone for that kinda price here in the US? :shake:
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Postby Cloudy on Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:28 am

That's gonna turn Paris into a porn kingdom... It's too easy to get porn that way Image
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Postby Matt on Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:38 am

my friend has a 10MB a sec connection and it takes him 6-10 seconds to get an album and under 3 minutes to get a movie. That's good enough IMO...and he get's his shit for $10 a month.
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Postby Jing on Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:43 am

goddamn french
that deal is breathtaking
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Postby jerry on Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:44 am

Matt wrote:my friend has a 10MB a sec connection and it takes him 6-10 seconds to get an album and under 3 minutes to get a movie. That's good enough IMO...and he get's his shit for $10 a month.


... 3minutes to get a movie? shit thats nice :evil:
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Postby Joe' on Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:38 am

Matt wrote:my friend has a 10MB a sec connection and it takes him 6-10 seconds to get an album and under 3 minutes to get a movie. That's good enough IMO...and he get's his shit for $10 a month.


No way! 10 MB/s doesn't mean you download at 10 MB/s...I have ADSL2+ at 24 MB/s and the max I download is 4 MB/s, which is still great.
Downloading an album (at max speed) usually takes me from 15 seconds to a minute. Downloading a movie takes me from 2 to 15 minutes, but only if I download at max speed (which is around 4 MB/s as I said before)...Usually it never happens, only when I download direct link files I get that speed (because I use FlashGet) but downloading with any other program (except iTunes...the time to download an album with it is always around one minute, not more) it never reaches 4 MB/s...Sometimes it doesn't reach even 1 MB/s.
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Postby cyanide on Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:28 am

It all depends on what server you download from. You might have a 2.5 Gb/s connection, but from a slow server, you're not gonna be able to download as fast as you would like.
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Postby Pera on Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:40 am

Holy shit only 70 euros.Damn the freakin french.
I should move to France :cheeky: .
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Postby Jackal on Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:42 am

Hmm, wonder how long it'll take Casema to offer something like that.
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Postby Nick on Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:10 pm

Lol, when i saw the topic title i thought it was gonna be about women. But no, it's all about the computers for dada. :lol:
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Postby Dean on Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:32 pm

I had the exact same thought.
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Postby dada on Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:34 pm

Nick wrote:Lol, when i saw the topic title i thought it was gonna be about women. But no, it's all about the computers for dada. :lol:


Computers, women....whats the difference? They all do the same thing. :cheeky:
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Postby shadowgrin on Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:12 pm

^ Cooking meals and washing dishes?
Cloudy wrote:That's gonna turn Paris into a porn kingdom... It's too easy to get porn that way

[French accent] We don't download "porn", as the sleazy Americans say it. We download "art".[/French accent]

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