That is how much can be sent out and recieved in a time frame. Also has any body thought about the way the internet is being constructed. What happen to the simple days when there was very little pictures clips and sound. Lets face it we use the internet for emial and file downloads and text papers thats all it should be right now. The infrastructure is not there for all the glits and it only going to get worse.
Cable systems are the only way to go now and in the future the structure there and the speed.
And they can offer prices comparable to the phone companys. A friend of mine in Long Island has cable internet and he says that is like lightning only when on the server providing the service. But if he downloads of a site like Gamespot still takes hours for 20mb file. Lawrence Did I forget to mention . . .