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by white_eskimo 5830 days ago
There clearly is lots of innovation going on, but 54 Mbps wireless hardware was introduced over 11 years ago!

Furthermore, AT&T's DSL speed has only exhibited a .15 Mbps CAGR over the past 5 years to its current peak of 6 Mbps. Comcast's average cable internet speeds were 6 Mbps from 2005 to 2007, until they jumped to 12 Mbps in 2008.

Can't wait for the future...

Sources: "IEEE 802.11a-1999." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11a-1999>.\n "AT&T Residential Broadband Internet." <http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431>.\n "Evolution of Broadband speed and prices over time." <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/31/41551958.xls>.