How fast are Internet connections going to be in a few years and how much are they going to cost?

Question

Actually i have DSL, am i going to need fiber optic cables to get a faster connection?

Answer 1

as for price i dont know, but in japan they have 140mb internet that comes from your plug socket so no need for wireless, just use in any room of your house.

at the moment you can get 24mb broadband for £24 "UK ONLY" from a company called BE-There

Answer 2

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/224/report_display.asp

Today, with nearly half of all Americans having high-speed internet connections at home, online interactivity means something different for a lot of Americans than it did when it was mainly about email. Many-to-many communication is now buttressed by many-to-many participation in the online world through user-created media. Still, questions remain about the use of advanced communications networks. Among them: Why does access to a high-speed connection at home matter? The fuss about broadband extends beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons as people with shared interests or problems gather at various online forums to chat or collaborate.

read more in the .pdf link at this site

This tutorial will help you understand the practical differences between DSL and cable modem networking. While similar in many respects, DSL and cable Internet services differ in several fundamental ways ( see link two )

Internet connection speed for broadband is aprox 30 mbps
but some caps limit this to aprox 3 mbps ! they cost about 40 to 50 bucks per month on avg. Adsl is being offered but most 30 mbps , most lines are capped at 3 mbps by the provider . I'm not to sure you will have to get fiber optic to upgrade your connection . However going cable is a good upgrade if you can get it where you live .

Answer 3

Right now the average coax connection (cable) is only about 4 to 6 Mbits/sec. fast Ethernet is about 1Gbit/sec. So, if the company that provides you with Internet connections there are no telling how fast you can get. as a matter of fact, fiber optics will be even faster that that. and as far as the cost. with as long as there is competition and customer will only pay so much for there connection. I'd say that it wouldn't be much more than you'll paying now.

Answer 4

Eventually I am sure the phone companies will replace their copper lines with fiber to the house, but that will take quite some time to do. Of course once it gets to your house it will most likely be converted back to copper, unless you "re-wire" your house with fiber optics.

As far as speeds go, with fiber there have been no boundaries yet. Right now there are OC-768 lines in use, which is approximately 40 Gbit/s (40,000 Mbit/s). With DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) there seems to be no end in sight.

Answer 5

Twice as fast for half the price;-} & that's conservative.
Yes, most areas will be served by fibre-optic cable.
Providers are also going wireless, eliminating cable.
We currently pay $100/month for digital TV & hi-speed;
that's at 100Mbps.

Answer 6

cable is the terrific thank you to head yet dsl is likewise stable dialup truly isnt properly well worth the money or time anymore you will get dsl via maximum of your interior of reach telephone companys and that they maximum likly have a merchandising going so which you would be able to attempt it for extra or less 10-15 dollors for ninety-one hundred eighty days

Answer 7

In few years internet will be available at some 25-1000Mb/sec. The cost will be same as today.

Answer 8

idk about the cables but prob not much fatser than now