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Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 09:38:10 +0200
On 6/1/21 19:38, Raymond Burkholder wrote:
On 6/1/21 11:33 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:99% of the end-users I know can't tell the difference in any amount of speed above 5 megs. It then just either works or doesn't work.And that might be the crux: 'just make it work'.
In 2010 when we were rolling out FTTH + IPTV for the first time in Kuala Lumpur for $previous_job, we intentionally made the selling points:
- Number of national + international voice minutes per month. - Number of HD and SD IPTV channels you received. - Number of VoD titles you received.- Number of users in the home that could enjoy Internet access simultaneously.
No mention of how much bandwidth they bought, or needed to buy.We understood, then, that folk don't care if they need 20Mbps or 100Mbps to watch their HD sports channels. They just want their HD sports channels. That it requires 20Mbps or 100Mbps is not their problem, but ours.
As my American friend used to say, "The just want their MTV". Hey Randy :-)...
In the end, the killer up became the symmetrical service, despite it being GPON. That was when Facebook was picking up, encouraging folk to upload, share and create, i.e., upload bandwidth.
Mark.
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- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections, (continued)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Shawn L via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Livingood, Jason via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 01)
- RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections aaron1 (Jun 01)
- RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Shawn L via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Christopher Morrow (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Raymond Burkholder (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 02)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections james.cutler () consultant com (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (Jun 01)
- RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Chris Adams (IT) (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 02)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (Jun 02)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Shawn L via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Jim Troutman (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections scott (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (Jun 01)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections scott (Jun 01)