If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fastbroadband Internet service, here’s a statistic that will make heartrace. Or your blood boil. Or both.

Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cablecompany in Japan. Here’s how much the company had to invest to upgradeits network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed.

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MODSonair Episode 174 Live at 12pm EST.

BONUS: We will be guests on Bash and Slash immediately after our broadcast. Maybe JockYitch will make it a live broadcast too.

Episode 173 rebroadcast right before the LIVE show. All other episodes rebroadcast after the show.

This is episode 173 of MODSonair recorded live on March 29, 2009 and brought to you by MODSonline.com.

BASH and Slash 100th, Pandora, PS3 Netflix, iPhone Wolf3D, CoDWWZombies Maps, Half-Life 2: Decadence, Doom: Fall of Mars, FileFront,CoD: Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead Survival Pack, DRM Obsolete, OnLivegaming, CryENGINE 3, Ghostbusters, Hellion, Combat Arms Nutshot, more...

Hosts: foyleman, Jynx, Welshy, Stryder,

FileFront has been acquired by the original founders of the siteand will NOT be suspended as previously announced. This is NOT an AprilFool's Joke.

MODSonair Episode 173 Live at 12pm EST.

SPECIAL GUEST: Jock Yitch, host of Bash and Slash.

Episode 172 rebroadcast right before the LIVE show. All other episodes rebroadcast after the show.