How long before high speed internet (excluding satellite) will be universally available?
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If anyone has a guess it would be pew
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You can't.  DSL uses cables to convey the data and if your area still isn't cable-ready (DSL cables that is), you will have to rely on dial-up in the meantime.
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http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/
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I think there is a company in Thailand (Shin Satellite) that provides a Broadband IP service all over south Asia called IPSTAR.  I know the service is already active in Austrailia, so it might be available in Indonesia.
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Wireless devices will be everywhere. The phone, camera, and computer will merge with the internet. Vast databases of information will store, calculate, and notate every change everywhere. We will lose more privacy because of satellite imaging and web cameras. I know communications will become "one touch" access. The way we communicate will make the biggest changes. Look at what engineers have accomplished so far. Electronics is communication.
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Satellite Internet is great for browsing the web and reading email. However, anything more than that does not work well. The problem is that signals have to travel from earth to a satellite in orbit and back. Even though they move at the speed of light, it takes almost a second for a signal to get from you to the Internet and back.\n\nThis is called latency. A second may not sound like much, but since you are constantly sending and receiving a lot of small packets across the Internet, and it adds up quickly. A normal latency on a cable modem, by contrast, is about 50 ms or about 0.05 seconds. The satellite provider will give you software that works with your web browser and email program to cache data (basically, your computer will anticipate your requests for data so you don't have to wait). However, if you want to do something like play online games or connect to your office's network to work, forget it.\n\nIn general, satellite Internet is popular where there is no other choice. It is a whole lot better than dial-up, but if cable or DSL are available, opt for that instead.
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hmmmm good qusetion by the way....\n\nWe are see now that every bit of tecnology is growing closer to gether, PDAs, laptops, phones, Home PCs, Home TV all have a lot in common like OS's, web, wireless etc. its looks like to me that the internet will spread as a funtion over new tecnolgy, allowing us to take our digtel lifes everywere. the internet will be the seemless movment of infomation of this new world, no longer confined to the dark rooms and offices, everything will be at our fingertips. as long as well keep the net open and free!
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Cable is definitely fastest, but if you have problems with your BB cable service - and assuming no other cable companies can offer your service - then DSL has to be your next option.  DSL in general aren't as fast, but still acceptable for typical web surfing, internet games, etc.  Of course, there is a possibility that you live too far from the central office, making DSL not an option.  Then, satellite should be your last option.  It is for sure not as fast as cable, but can still be 5x to 10x faster than dial-up.  There is a new offering from a company called Wildblue.  The link below will provide the installation and per month cost, but it really should be the last option.\n\nhttp://www.wildblue.com/forYourHome/index.jsp
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Get high speed cable internet...
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http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/\n\nOne choice.
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Nothing.  DSL is broadband.
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I believe Clinton/Gore wanted to make the Internet available to all Americans.  I doubt that getting everyone connected to the Internet is a priority for the Bush Administration.  You see, if you keep people dumb by restricting their access to information, then they'll be easier to control.  \n\nAs for a high speed Internet connection, I have a preference for a cable high speed connection.  I pay $35 a month for it.  I have a few friends that have had trouble with DSL.  I think Netzero offers a connection 5 times faster than dial up for $9.95 a month.
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No speed is going to be good enough!Get your self a dedicated T1 line and you may possible get to watch TV broadcast quality on the net......
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Internet2 Speed Record\nOn 14 April 2004 a team of engineers from Sprint Corporation in San Jose, California, USA, and the Swedish National Research and Education Network successfully transmitted 838.86 gigabytes of data over a distance of 16,343 km (10,155 miles) in 1,588 seconds. The resulting record value of 69,073 terabit metres-per-second was achieved over public networks using IPv4. The start and end points of the transmission were San Jose, California, USA, and the University of Luleå , Luleå , Sweden.\nhttp://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=58445\n\n\nI think you may looking for this result\n\n Networking\nSeptember 2, 2004\nScientists Set Internet2 Speed Record\nBy Susan Kuchinskas\n\nScientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) set a new land-speed record for Internet2, a second-generation network serving universities and research institutes.\n\nThe team, which included folks from AMD (Quote, Chart), Cisco (Quote, Chart), Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second (define) between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.\n\nScientists are racing to move gigantic amounts of data by 2007, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch on. This huge underground particle accelerator will produce some 15 petabytes (define) of data a year, which will be stored and analyzed on a global grid of computer centers.\n\nHigh-energy physicists are excited about the LHC because they hope it will allow them to find the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that they believe creates mass.\n\n"Physicists are trying to fill in the blank spaces in our model of high energy physics," said Jim Gray a Microsoft Research engineer who helped set Wednesday's record.\n\nBut this $10 billion collider will be of little use if scientists around the world can't access the data.\n\nResearchers aren't the only ones excited about blazing data speeds. This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds. There are uses in astronomy, bioinformatics, global climate modeling and seismology, as well as commercial applications from entertainment to oil and gas exploration.\n\nInternet2 is fast -- Abilene, a U.S. cross-country backbone network, blasts data at 10Gbps. But transoceanic networking is another story. There are hardware and software issues to overcome, Gray said.\n\nFor example, one limiting factor is that the fastest available interface for PCs is the PCIX64 Bus Isolation Extender, which can only handle 7.5Gbps.\n\nThe land-speed test is part of an ongoing R&D program to create high-speed global networks as the foundation of next-generation, data-intensive grids with a goal of transferring data at 1Gbps.\n\nThe performance also is the first record to break the 100-petabit meter per second mark. One petabit is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits (define). That may seem like an almost inconceivably large number, but Gray said storing petabits of data is a fact of life for many large corporations. He said Microsoft has about 5 petabits of data, and he estimates Google and Yahoo store that much, as well.\n\n"If you have a million customers and they each have a gigabyte of storage, that's a petabit," he said.\n\nThe technology used in setting this record included S2io's Xframe 10 GbE server adapter, Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Newisys 4300 servers using AMD Opteron processors, Itanium servers and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.\nhttp://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3403161
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10 years- fiber optic?  not yet.  Power cables will be the supply of telecommunications.  the power we currently get runs between 1-60Hz... yet the cables are so wide they can handle well into the Tera-hertz.  Com ed is already experimenting on multiplexing signals to bring voice, TV, and data to... EVERYWHERE!  The power grid encompasses everything and has NO ZONING!  You would travel with a small lightweight access box... plug into the wall... an ethernet cable to the lap top... and voila!  your on YOUR internet and phone account EVERYWHERE you go.  The lines are already laid which means the system is ready to go.  fiber cables still have to be laid all over and run to each and every home and business.\n\n20 years- fiber?  maybe.  its important to remember that there isnt a single technology that utilizes fiber to its full capacity.  how do we know?  because we dont know the maximum bandwidth of fiber cables.\n\n30 years- fiber?  probably.  at this point we should have wireless access everywhere, internet on our wrist watch, and TV streamed directly to our brain by the Motorola/AT&T/Coca-Cola/Chinese Government/ABC-TimeWarner conglomeration.  oh dont forget the TIVO add-on shoe sole insert.
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Yep - high speed internet is basically "broadband" which you can get over a cable or through a phone line (called ADSL or DSL).\n\nHave a look at this article for beginners which explains everything really clearly:
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There is another option if you are in a place that only has dial up service but you need something faster. If you have the money you can buy satellite internet. It is more expensive but if speed is of the utmost priority to you and you have the money satellite internet access is what you need.