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By Ann Treacy – Boston.com reports that ultra-fast broadband connections aren’t all they’re cracked up to because it really just moves the bottleneck…
The problem is that most of the Internet isn’t transmitting data fast enough to take advantage of such rapid broadband speeds, Entner said. If a server computer transmits an Internet video at, say, 20 million bits per second, having a 300-million-bits-a-second connection won’t make any difference. “The website you are connecting to is the bottleneck,” he said.
I experienced this phenomenon a couple of months ago when I went to my ISP to upload video. more> http://tinyurl.com/cv6b29q
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