Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Who buys these things?
So, most of us are stuck with "low speed high speed internet". I have 1 Mbs internet, whereas most people with Bell / Rogers have 3Mbs or 5Mbs.
The reality is that with 1Mbs, Laura and I can both comfortably be online browing the web, emailing etc no problems. The only downside is that when I want to download a movie, it takes me a while. And by a while, I mean, a week.
Fear not those of you who are actively downloaders, presumably of the legal kind...the iTunes tv shows and whatnot...Videotron in the Quebecois region has introduced the ULTIMATE in blazing, incredible high speed internet.
"The new product, dubbed Ultimate Speed Internet, lets users access the Web at blistering speeds of up to 50 megabits per second (Mbps).
What that means is users won't have to wait very long to watch that new TV show or listen to that hot song. Vidéotron estimates it will take just 10 seconds to download a CD with 10 songs, and five minutes for a movie that is two gigabytes (GB). "
WOW. 2 gigabytes in 5 minutes. THAT is truly incredible. This must cost a fortune. You betcha!
Vidéotron's 50 Mbps service will cost $79.95 a month and have a monthly upload and download cap of 50 GB.
Wait, I can only upload/download a total of 50GB? At roughly 2 1/2 minutes per gigabyte, that means that for the veritable fortune of $80/month you can use your internet to download for a total elapsed time of...2 hours per month. AWESOME!!!
The reality is that with 1Mbs, Laura and I can both comfortably be online browing the web, emailing etc no problems. The only downside is that when I want to download a movie, it takes me a while. And by a while, I mean, a week.
Fear not those of you who are actively downloaders, presumably of the legal kind...the iTunes tv shows and whatnot...Videotron in the Quebecois region has introduced the ULTIMATE in blazing, incredible high speed internet.
"The new product, dubbed Ultimate Speed Internet, lets users access the Web at blistering speeds of up to 50 megabits per second (Mbps).
What that means is users won't have to wait very long to watch that new TV show or listen to that hot song. Vidéotron estimates it will take just 10 seconds to download a CD with 10 songs, and five minutes for a movie that is two gigabytes (GB). "
WOW. 2 gigabytes in 5 minutes. THAT is truly incredible. This must cost a fortune. You betcha!
Vidéotron's 50 Mbps service will cost $79.95 a month and have a monthly upload and download cap of 50 GB.
Wait, I can only upload/download a total of 50GB? At roughly 2 1/2 minutes per gigabyte, that means that for the veritable fortune of $80/month you can use your internet to download for a total elapsed time of...2 hours per month. AWESOME!!!
Labels: Awesome, Internet, Quebec
# posted by Greg @ 8:00 PM 
