High speed internet has been getting speedier over the last couple of years. It seems every couple of months there is a new report in the news about a new internet medium 100 times faster than ADSL. It's difficult to keep up. All these new mediums are not viable for the general public because of the practicality of the setup.

ADSL 2+ runs at around 24 mega bit a second. I cannot see how anyone would need a faster speed than this. The average internet user will use the internet for simple browsing or to use their email. 5 mega bit a second is more than enough to do all that in a timely manner. So why do we need faster internet? Mainly for commercial purposes and the die hard internet geeks that can' wait that extra millisecond for their page to load up.

With high speed internet the main restriction is the download limit. When you give users that kind of speed they will be downloading a lot more data hence download limits need to be raised. When you raise the download limit the price of the service goes up dramatically. There has to be a middle ground in between download limits and pricing.

Cable internet is also a good broadband connection. Cable internet runs on a separate cable, as the name suggests, rather than running on a phone line. This increases reliability because it is not running on the same lines as land line phone services or pay tv.

High speed internet is good to have, but anything more than the current speed is a little over kill for our present needs as consumers.