{"id":927,"date":"2008-04-08T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hothardware.com:\/\/2fd8a5e5111ae04add404d605657ce5d"},"modified":"2008-04-08T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:34:28","slug":"comcast-to-roll-out-50mbsec-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Comcast To Roll Out 50Mb\/Sec Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reversing their stance on BitTorrent, Comcast has announced plans to offer their 50Mb\/sec broadband in all existing markets by 2010. What would people use the extra bandwidth for? Digital distribution of movies and music seems a likely candidate and BitTorrent seems like it is going to be a key player in that arena. \u00a0So how fast is a 50Mb\/sec connection in terms of downloading movies? \u00a0Fast enough:\u201cWith the faster service, a customer could download a 4 gigabyte high-definition movie in about 10 minutes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reversing their stance on BitTorrent, Comcast has announced plans to offer their 50Mb\/sec broadband in all existing markets by 2010. What would people use the extra bandwidth for? Digital distribution of movies and music seems a likely candidate and BitTorrent seems like it is going to be a key player in that arena. \u00a0So how fast is a 50Mb\/sec connection in terms of downloading movies? \u00a0Fast enough:\u201cWith the faster service, a customer could download a 4 gigabyte high-definition movie in about 10 minutes, Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}