There's an interesting article over at [url="http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/29/1429246.shtml?tid=95"]Slashdot reporting[/url] that the Japanese government is "forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010."
10Gbit online connection at home! That's just plain nutty. Now, with my lame calculations using Moore's Law, we'd have 48ghz computers by then too, but I'm curious as to what you think are the possibilities of online gaming in the future. Give me your speculations, wishes, and worries for the direction of online gaming with that much bandwidth and power available...
Huge online battles like those seen in Helms Deep for example?
quote:Originally posted by LiveWire
of course in australia most of us will have only just upgraded to broadband cos telstra, etc have decided to stop ripping us off with outrages prices and moved on to extort the 10gbit hopefuls instead...
Add to that they will have also decided to actually provide broadband access to most areas around capital cities.
One that I heard of earlier this year, was the FCC's attempt at BPL (Broadband over Power Lines). Although not as fast as the Japanese experiment, it would be far more accessable. If you have a computer, you could have Broadband :)
http://www.eei.org/magazine/editorial_content/nonav_stories/2004-03-01-…
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-03-03-plugin-net…
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bpl7.htm