Wow! That is one fast broadband connection!

Link: Cablevision to Offer Faster Net Service - New York Times.

Cablevision, the nation’s fifth-largest cable provider, plans to start selling broadband connections with top speeds of 50 megabits per second to the 4.5 million households in the area where it offers service. Cablevision will also raise the speed of its current broadband service by 50 percent, to 15 megabits per second, at no additional cost.

The move comes as Verizon, Cablevision’s chief rival in the New York metropolitan area, introduces its own super-fast Internet service. In places where Verizon has installed new fiber-optic cables, consumers can buy broadband connections of up to 30 megabits per second.

Comment -- We've come a long way from the days when it was exciting and new to get 28.8 dialup connections.

It's interesting to note that it's competition, not government mandates, that are spurring the speed increase.