Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

Its mostly marketing, a number of years ago I worked for a cable co, we
knew if we increased BW X we'd see a Y speed increase in usage.  We also
has done the math on several future generations of upgrades, so we'd know
if "phone company" increases to A we'd move to B.  I know the guy that did
the math for us then, he still sits in that job so I assume he still does
similar I suspect any cable so worth their salt does the same.



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael () gav ufsc br> wrote:

> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person
> it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics,
> going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average
> transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to
> comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than
> anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas () zerofail com> wrote:
>
> > Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan.
> >
> > Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/
> >
> > If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko
> > Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM
> > To: NANOG
> > Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
> >
> > Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of
> Toronto
> > with the World's Fastest Internet™.
> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html
> >