The enthusiasm of volunteers has made the web into one of the Internet's most popular technologies, accounting for about 3% of Internet traffic and growing twice as fast as the Internet itself.
Simply downloading the first half of the file--even on our fast Internet connection--took about 18 hours.
However, I have a mostly commercial collection and a fast Internet upload link in my home.
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Without a fast Internet connection, uploading more than a handful of photographs simply takes too long.
No government, let alone an intergovernmental body, can make engineering and economic decisions in lightning-fast Internet time.
We have students in places such as Nigeria and Turkmenistan who cannot access fast internet connections everyday.
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Their website had been late to launch, and had proved virtually unusable for those without a fast internet connection.
No matter what phone setup you choose, you'll want a fast Internet connection.
Modern games can be several gigabytes in size, and without a fast internet connection it can become unfeasible to consider downloading them.
Yet much of the country has been covered by fast internet pipes.
Reports say every town and many villages have a fast internet connection.
Using elastic cloud resources from Amazon Web Services, for example, a tiny software developer can scale its Internet presence as fast as it wants.
However, this online rental market became increasingly crowded with rival services, and now the popularity of streaming films over the internet is growing fast.
Windows Phone 8's customizable home screen and fast Internet Explorer 10 browser go a long way towards legitimizing the Lumia 920 as a heavy-duty smartphone.
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By contrast, Sprint has invested heavily in technology that can bring fast Internet access and multiple telephone lines to houses and small businesses through a single connection.
Google Fiber is good: access to blistering fast internet is spurring the demand and purchase of Video On Demand (VOD), while the audience for traditional broadcast television collapses.
Our customers are happy to engage with the sponsor for a brief period as an alternative to paying for fast Internet access which makes this a win-win for all involved.
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The attraction is simple: If there's a company with a wireless network within range of a favorite coffee joint, why not borrow its fast Internet connection and surf while you sip.
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.
On both sides of the Atlantic, the ubiquity of fast internet connection that can support HD streaming, along with antiquated rules around free-to-air offerings, is creating a bit of a wild west feel.
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To make use of the cloud you will need quite a fast internet connection, otherwise uploading your data is going to be a massive chore, and keeping it updates an even bigger one.
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.
Each film is bitrate encoded six different ways to ensure that a viewer can easily watch an entire movie whether he is watching it on a cell phone or over a super-fast Internet connection.
Two important news items today about broadband, one from the politician in charge of government policy in this area, the other from the company with the biggest role in making the fast internet happen.
Google is hungry--and operating in faster-than-fast Internet time.
We are now all spoiled with the features we expect: GPS, cameras of quality, fast internet access, email, and it is still nice to be able to hear the person at the other end of a call.
On a much lighter note, global high-speed broadband adoption (defined as any speed equal or greater than 10Mbps) grew by 2.7 percent last quarter, with top honors going to South Korea where nearly half the population enjoys super fast internet access.
By relabeling its existing 3G network, the country's second-largest wireless carrier joined the noisy fray over so-called fourth-generation wireless technology, which promises mobile Internet speeds so fast that huge files can be downloaded in minutes and streaming video can be watched without the interruptions of earlier-generation technologies.
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Previous Dish DVRs supported an optional Sling adapter that allows you to stream live or recorded programming from the DVR to Internet connected PCs, Macs and mobile device anywhere in the world, but as with all streaming services, you needed a live and relatively fast Internet connection to watch the programs.
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The early-adopter set has been playing with home networking for a few years, but now the technology is spreading to mainstream consumers, who want to split the fast Internet connection of a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) among several PCs, and also share computer files and peripherals such as printers and scanners.
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