tkpenaltyIf you haven't realised this is Gigabit over their internet connection, and not gigabit over LAN like you have. Korea basically has the fastest net and an average household computer probably has dual gigabit as standard ... I guess that 100mbit connection that everybody has is too "slow".

Perhaps I need more smiles in my post :D

Aggregated gigabit - certainly cost effective as 10Gbps NICs are still several thousands of dollars.

At 1Gbps wont the HDD's play a bottle neck when you download?

I am officially jealous.

Swansen???? is this for north or south korea??? I'd imagine South, as North Korea is a mess, but thats a pretty big distinction being skipped out on. Anyways, there are many more implications than just speedy internet access, this will change lifestyles of a people who are already glued to the internet.

South. North doesn't even have $22 billion.

Only if this happen to US. Wonder if Obama's new IP initiative will change anything.

I got to use a 1Tb a second connection about 5 years back @ Kensai Electrics (Japan), and all i can tell you is that it now takes me over a year to download the equivelent to what i did that day in a matter of seconds.

BTW, im stuck on 1.5 ADSL now, thats a top speed of 150kb a second!

100Mb connections should be a global dialup equivelent (almost obsolete). Our governement would rather spend money on abolishing drugs. If i remember correctly, America tried to wage a war on drugs once upon a time.

I wish that would be sick to obtain speeds like that. But look how freaking long it took us to get a 3g based GSM cell service lol!!

HaytchI got to use a 1Tb a second connection about 5 years back @ Kensai Electrics (Japan), and all i can tell you is that it now takes me over a year to download the equivelent to what i did that day in a matter of seconds.

BTW, im stuck on 1.5 ADSL now, thats a top speed of 150kb a second!

100Mb connections should be a global dialup equivelent (almost obsolete). Our governement would rather spend money on abolishing drugs. If i remember correctly, America tried to wage a war on drugs once upon a time.

the pc you were on was connected via gige if even that
none of today's pc/hdd/bus/memory combo can handle 1 tbps

the fastest commercially available networking technology that will work in your pc is 10 gige. being able to saturate that with anything is a completely different topic

1 megabit of non-oversold internet bandwidth at the cheapest (and worst) carrier available is like $5 - if you take 3000 mbit++ and the price stays locked in for like 3 years

For America or Australia or any big country , the costs for replacing the infrastructure would be a bit costly , and in countries where everything needs to make a profit or die it's not a thing would happen out of the blue.
Korea is not that big and can do this with not so much huge costs as America would have.
I'm not surprised countries much more wealthy have crap internet connections and some poor and little countries have speedy connections.
Take Romania ( I'm from Romania ) , I've got metropolitan speeds ( this metro speeds happens with almost all corners of Romania but varies from 50 mb/s to closer areas from me that reach 72 mb/s ) that reach 72 mb/s ( 9mb real ) and on the internet i got almost 20 mb/s.
I pay for this connection an equivalent in dollars comes to 10 $ and in euro about 8 euro's.
Comparing Romania to Spain or UK or America i would say we are 10 times poorer s a country than them but we got better IC.
The reason for this is we got the internet at a later time than other countries , investors in this business started smart and got right away building fiber infrastructure , countries like America , Australia or whoever has poor speed will not get anything better unless some competition arrives , why invest in a better infrastructure if all is good and we make money , right ?
It's just a thought , don't take this as truth , i could be very wrong.

++ leonard

i want to live in korea :)