More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 Gigabytes per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 20 MB).

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More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 gigabits per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 30 megabits per second).

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Remember that pair of 100 terabit-per-second connections we told you about earlier this moth?

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"We can offer 10-megabit-per-second connections over the Internet, " boasts Scaglia.

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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.

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Current connections are a snail-like 9, 600 bytes per second compared with the standard 28, 800 bps.

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Comcast plans to offer ten times that speed, and Google has promised trials of blazing-fast one gigabyte per second fiber-to-the-home connections.

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