Videotron testing 400% faster internet service

2007 seems to be the year for Internet speed to jump to the next level. Videotron is testing a service in the Montreal area that provides 100 megabits per second - now thats LAN speed on the NET! Of course a lot of us have already moved to duplex gigabit LANs but at least the Internet speed is improving. Now if we could get all the inter-connects up to higher speeds!

I thought my FiOS is nice but 15 Mbps compared to 100 Mbps. The Canadian social health care might be worth putting up with to get 100 Mbps Internet! :)

They are partnered with Cisco and they claim the speeds are possible due to a new technological breakthrough. Hopefully we will see this technology available here in the States and in many other places sooner rather than later.

Rumor has it FiOS can scale to close to 200 Mbps per subscriber. I think this is definitely the beginning of another transformation of the net and will certainly bring serious competition to the existing cable and phone providers.

WOW - Corsair releases PC10000 RAM

Corsair has done it again. They have released their newest RAM (PC-10000) yep that's right 10,000 or 1250MHz. Of course they come with their own air cooler and must be pretty darn hot while running. People in the Midwest will welcome these with the current cold spell that is hitting them up there.

Of course Tom's Hardware does an excellent review and compares them to other formidable offerings from Corsair. It does dominate the benchmarks they perform against other RAM speeds including DDR2-800 and DDR2-1066 however, the timings had to be relaxed at 5-5-5-18 2T instead of 4-4-4-12 2T.

Take a look at the review conclusion to get Tom's Hardware excellent summary and suggestion regarding this new barn burning RAM!