What is the Fastest Internet?

Question

Is it true that cable is the fastest internet? My friend says it is but when i looked it i came up with this:

There are multiple grades of cable and dsl service.

Cable
usually 10mb/s downstream and 1mb/s upstream (megaBIT/sec)

DSL
varies from 128kb/s to 1mb/s for consumers. Can be symmetrical if you get SDSL. Most consumers get ADSL or some variant.

Cable is faster than DSL for most downloads but YMMV depending on your provider and a host of other factors.

T1- 1.5 mb/s. Very fast. Symmetric. Very expensive unless you are at a university or one of those cool new internet buildings with it built in.

T3- 45 mb/s Very Very Fast. Symmetric. You can't afford it. A major corporation or your university can afford it.

OC-### - You are the freaking telecom company or a large ISP.

Internet 2 - separate from the internet. You are a physicist or engineer running advanced simulations with huge data sets.

So what is the fastest internet, if it's not cable then what is?

Answer 1

For a Consumer like ourselves, the fasted Internet Connection the average person can afford is a cable connection, which already adds up to $45-60 per month. The T Serie of connections are more for the upper class citizens who can afford the higher cost and of course for our friends the internet host and giant corporations, they have they own OC-xxx connections which by far is the fastest connection since they go as far as 39,813.12 Mbit/s (OC-768).

In the future, expect to see the OC-3072 which goes at 159.25248 Gbps, which the best way to describe this is imagine downloading all the movies in the world in 1 night since it would theoretically be 159+ 700 MB movies per GBps. Of course, i doubt anyone would be able to seed 1 GB+ in a shot.

Answer 2

A BRITISH-designed internet system promises to break the “four-minute mile” of broadband technology by delivering the fastest web service on the planet to British households.

Residents in Shoreditch, East London, will become the first to test a new advance in broadband technology when they switch on a new set-top box that combines the functions of a television and computer.

Introduced this month, the system will allow 20,000 households to surf the web and download material at speeds up to 2,000 times faster than present services. Users will, for example, be able to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than seven seconds, managers of the government-funded project said.

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).

The key to the speed of the new system is a high-security “powerhouse” located in London’s Docklands. The Telehouse data centre houses 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft) of fibre-optic telecommunications and IT infrastructure required to power the most high-speed connections.

Nicknamed “CTU”, after the high-tech counter-terrorist headquarters in the American television series, 24, the Telehouse centre is said to be one of the most secure locations in Britain.

It is designed to provide back-up power for Britain’s vital network services in the event of a terrorist attack and its environmental sensors ensure that high-powered connections, such as the Shoreditch project, do not melt through excessive heat.

Answer 3

Comcast