Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[Rafael Possamai <rafael () gav ufsc br>]

Good points. But just like I won't take more than one shower at a time, I
probably won't watch more than one Netflix stream session at a time
(assuming that for myself only). Downloading a large ISO image in seconds
is definitely a plus, although at the office I never reach a steady 120MB/s
from some Linux mirror out there. I've recently created a Debian mirror and
the 1500GB or so of data came at an average speed of 270mbps using a 1gbps
datacenter link.

I think it will still be a while until we can saturate a 1gbps link inside
the average home. While there are people working hard to deliver 1gbps
FTTH, there are others working equally as hard in developing video
compression algorithms to utilize less bandwidth on the content provider
side.

Not arguing against it, I'm just throwing gas at the fire to see what
different perspectives come out.


On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:

> In message <
> CAJB2g-H2cccqUD7_BhpoyDo+BeYSyZpy+js2P+hJ6RUk0QX-hQ () mail gmail com>
> , Rafael Possamai writes:
> > 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.
>
> Overkill is good provided it doesn't cost too much more.  You want
> the connection speed to not be a limitation on what you are trying
> to do.  1G does that at a good price point these days.  At some
> point in the future 1G will seem slow and there will be a new speed
> that stops the link speed being the limitation.
>
> You don't think about the size of power lines coming into a house
> as they are overkill for just about anything you will do in the
> house.
>
> You don't think about the size of water pipes coming into a house
> as they are overkill for just about anything you will do in the
> house.  Very occasionally you will want to connect directly to the
> mains (filling a pool) but otherwise the pipe is more that sufficient.
>
> The worry should be over the gigabytes transfered, the kilowatthours
> and the kilolitres consumed which are the actual resources being
> delivered.
>
> Unfortunately ISP's have made it about link speed rather than what
> it really is about because link speed was the limiting factor.
>
> Mark
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