Talk:Super high speed internet launched in New Zealand

"It is super high speed Internet that is capable of transmitting data with speeds of up to ten gigabytes per second, 10,000 times faster than the current spread of broadband, and 20,000 times faster than dial-up." This seems wrong. It puts broadband at 8 megabits per seconds and dial-up at 4 megabits per second. I'm not from New Zealand, so maybe they do have 8 megabit broadband, but I'm astonished to hear they have 4 megabit dial-up. TRWBW 05:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's wrong then: in New Zealand we have 3.5 megabyte per second speed and dialup in 56kbp/s. --Nzgabriel | NZ Portal | Talk 07:10, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thats most like actually 3.5 megabits per second. Also there's 4Mbps available on Telstra but I'm not sure what the source means by the current speed of broadband - which company's current speed? --R2b2 07:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * So it's actuallly 10Gbps, 2,500 times faster than current broadband and 200,000 times faster than dial-up? --USKiwi 14:52, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

NZ Herald Wrong
Good to see that the NZ Herald did their fact checking - they're saying its 10 Gigabytes per second when its not - its only 10 Gigabits... Now I know why I don't take much notice of the NZ Herald :D --R2b2 07:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Jealous
Why can't we have anything like that in the U.S.? Probably because the cable companies have a government-supported monopoly here.
 * We've had it for years in the U.S., it's called Internet2. There is a 10Gbps network and a 300Gbps network. Like the New Zealand system, it's used to connect research institutions. TRWBW 18:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)