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Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
From: Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:01:01 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Rafael Possamai 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.
Why would you use average transfer rate as the metric for user experience quality?
Most users don't care about their long term bandwidth average, they care about getting that movie playing _right_now_, or HD video calls with all the grandchildren, all at once. Heck, they care more about web pages showing up on the screen nice and fast more than average download speed.
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