2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes

Erick Lionheart at www.gamersloot.net writes "Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

LET THE TORRENTS BEGIN

Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[Cap'nPedro]

Oh the sweet, sweet pr0n! Holy crap, I wish I lived in France!

Wait, did I just say what I think I said...?

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[xtracto]

but French women are horny and very good

Damn it

[lapagecp]

THE FRENCH....the french have more bandwidth. Its just not right I tell you. I want fiber to the home. Oh and I want a cooler cell phone like the Japanese. How come the terrorist are after us. All we have is crappy phones that have been out for like a year or more other places and a few Mb of bandwidth.

2.5Gbps?

[Primis]

And what, in 40 seconds you've hit your monthly cap?

Seriously though, it' s trade-off. We could have this sort of thing in parts of North America, but it would require consumers and gov't to stop moaning and griping about where telecos and cablecos pick to choose their deployments. Cherry-picking, if you will.

Because in case you didn't notice, all these Asian and European plans that seem so fast (and than always get everyone green with envy) always have the disclaimer "in select areas/markets" on them. Which means "deployed to a very few affluent areas that can likely afford it", a concept which seems to go over OK in Asia and Europe, but not so OK in North America.

Internet, Phone and TV for $85.00?

[twmcneil]

Finally, a real reason to hate the French.

Re:And look here:

[SpecTheIntro]

Net Neutrality will only allow internet to be more expensive and let you have less freedom to browse.

Good to see telco PRs have now infiltrated slashdot.

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[andrewman327]

What are the practical uses of a connection this fast? I mean, think about it, can your computer even handle that speed of connection? And how many times can you pirate Meet the Fockers before you are happy with your connection?

Le Net

[digitaldc]

In the spirit of world communication and harmony, we should all adopt this French model.

French models usually aren't tech saavy, but this one is.

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[Anonymous Coward]

s/horny/hairy/

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[everett]

Being the tin-foil hat wearer that I am, I'd say that the french are going to ask you to install some software on your PC giving them (the French Government) the fattest, biggest zombie net in the world. Fuck with France, kiss your bandwidth good by as you get DDoS'ed in to a black hole.

Re:I envy you.

[gid13]

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Wow...

[just_another_sean]

They must have some big trucks, um, tubes that is in France!

SERIES OF TUBES!

[rmadmin]

But...It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.


Dear Senator Ted Stevens,
The French can figure this shit out, why can't you?
Love, rm

Re:You mean?

[thelost]

Citizen, do not believe Oceania's flaccid lies, their so called gigabit web is really just a series of interconnected tubes. They move information over long distances in dump-trucks. War is Peace Citizen. - This state announcement has been sponsored by Fox Networks Inc.

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[jozmala]

Ugly and reliable like a Hizbollah rocket.

Following news item tells you all that you need to know about reliability of hizbollah rockets.

Hizbollah has fired more than 900 missiles in total at dozens of towns and villages, killing 15 Israeli civilians.

Update your nationalist slurs, gentlemen!

[Elkboy]

Old: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys

New: Fast-surfing surrender monkeys

Re:What do they do with that bandwidth?

[solitas]

What do they do with that bandwidth?

Porn. They're French - they don't look at their wives; they look at everybody else's wives.

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[masklinn]

From the top of my head

• High quality videoconf
• P2P
• High quality streaming
• P2P
• Website hosting (1.5Gbps is a freaking huge upload bandwidth, quite a lot of websites currently on shared hostings could be hosted @home)
• P2P
• Serving a full network, or sharing bandwidth (say you poll resources with a pair of neighbours, pay a single line for 3 or 4 flats)
• P2P
• MOAR PR0N!
• P2P

Re:You mean?

[Fred_A]

European history books aren't available in the US.

Re:offering 2.5 Gb/s...

[raddan]

So, at worst, assuming 64 endpoints and a GbE line from the multiplexer, I get 16 Mbit downstream and 8 Mbit upstream? And, at best, at home, I get 768 Kbit down and 128 Kbit up? Plus TV, which I don't currently get. For the same price? Sounds pretty damn good to me.

Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes!

[LiLWiP]

Obligatory reply....

I for one welcome our hairy, smelly, horny, degreaser drinking Internet Overlords...

2.5Gb/s Internet For French Horns?

[dafragsta]

... ooooh, 2.5Gb/s for freedom homes!

Re:What do they do with that bandwidth?

[Curmudgeonlyoldbloke]

I'm English - I've always thought that quite a lot of what's written here isn't.