And like any average, our nationwide average speed combines fast connections with slow ones.
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Cable companies are rolling out video-on-demand, and computer-savvy film buffs are using fast connections to stream or download movies--legal or pirated.
The Net will get it by way of cheap, fast connections to homes and small offices--blink fast, fast enough for TV-quality videoconferencing.
This of course requires purveying good content as well as fast connections.
Telseon, a Denver, Colo. upstart, wholesales fast connections to Internet service providers and big corporate customers through a vastly improved version of Metcalfe's original design.
Modern college dorms are more high-tech than most office buildings, wired with super-fast connections to the Internet and equipped with all the amenities of 21st-century life.
Thus if you want very, very fast connections to the stock market, you need to be as close to the servers used by the market as possible.
We have students in places such as Nigeria and Turkmenistan who cannot access fast internet connections everyday.
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Oh, and when it comes to fast fibre connections, BT is adding customers twice as rapidly as Virgin.
With its variety of input and output ports including USB for fast PC connections, the Jukebox is also versatile.
The government was celebrating its own broadband milestone earlier this year as it announced that one million Britons had fast net connections.
This is despite people in rural Wales being less likely to have access to super-fast broadband connections, a 3G phone signal and a choice of suppliers.
If there is a trend, Mr Rosedale says, it is perhaps that Second Life does best in places with bad weather, fast broadband connections and unexciting entertainment options.
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Once we open a program we lobby to have the streets well lit, traffic signals and traffic lights in place, fast internet connections available, trash services and more policemen patrolling the streets.
While OnLive's software so far has been targeted largely at PCs with fast Internet connections, the service is likely to spread to mobile devices as 4G access becomes more ubiquitous in 2012 and beyond.
True, if you live behind a corporate firewall, have fast wired connections, and not a tremendous need for performance (network lags can be detrimental to data-hog applications like video editing, software development, and 3D modeling), then you can make do with a Chromebook-like endpoint.
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But experts argue that current mobile technology cannot compete with fast fixed line connections such as fibre optics which offer speeds of up to 100Mbps.
Speed freaks moan that's still only half as fast as typical broadband connections used in the home.
In commentaries and interviews, she oddly asserts that consumers need fast optical fiber broadband connections and powerful desktop computers to apply for jobs.
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Those fast lines and digital connections allow cable vendors to offer bandwidth-intensive, interactive services that satellite vendors like Echostar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) and DirecTV can't.
Everything may or may not be connected, but "Syriana" plays fast and loose with its connections.
Ethernet and some Wi-Fi were making it easy to connect and connections to be fast enough to upload a photo in about five minutes time.
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The network must also be reliable, so that connections will not only be fast, but also available whenever needed.
The introduction of WebSockets allows fast bi-directional full-duplex connections between a browser and an application, useful for high-performance browser-based applications.
The Fast Friends technique can be used to improve business connections, relationships between neighbors and romantic bonds, Dr. Aron says.
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Comcast plans to offer ten times that speed, and Google has promised trials of blazing-fast one gigabyte per second fiber-to-the-home connections.
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Jim Pickrell got into the Internet service provider business in 1995, back when dial-up connections ruled the day and a 56k modem was considered fast.
For those who can't get fast broadband speeds it can be very frustrating, but some local businesses are benefiting from high speed connections to access international markets.
Along with the Navy, EDS will screen software and limit internet connections to a half-dozen on-ramps that are monitored and can be cut off fast if attacked.
Along with the Navy, EDS will screen software and limit Internet connections to a half-dozen on-ramps that are monitored, filtered and can be cut off fast if attacked.
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