This may be very true, but I have questions about how the Internet is going to handle a bunch of ordinary web surfers now demanding their web pages at 30 times the speed? Is there backbone infrastructure in place to provide this kind of access on a household basis? Where is Microsoft going to find enough peering from NSP's to provide this access to their customers? I think it would be safe to assume that they probably have
This usage can be sustained easily by using proxy/cache implementations similar to those of the cable modem ISP's. After all, most of the bandwidth usage will come from http traffic most likely. Regarding the NSP, consider this: UUNet provides dialup pool connectivity for MSN. Microsoft owns a nice chunk of UUNet. UUNet is/will soon be implementing xDSL (IDSL and SDSL to be exact). UUNet is a big monster, and will only grow bigger ("If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em")... Microsoft will be introducing xDSL access. ...and draw your own conclusions. :)