Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

is gatekeeping what users MIGHT do, and/or deciding based on corner cases
helpful to this discussion?
(this isn't meant as a note directly to dorn, just a convenient place to
interject)

Aside from planning based on a formula like Jason Livingood's plan... OR
based on build/deploy/upgrade costs into pricing.
most of the rest of the conversation here sounds like gatekeeping:
  "Well, who needs that anyway?"

or:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum - in the form of:
"Well who can even use 8k anyway?" or similar.

-chris

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 2:45 PM Dorn Hetzel <dorn () hetzel org> wrote:

> Agreed, even with a 16TB drive, that's only 16000*8 ~= 128000 seconds of
> 1-gigabit download rate (under 36 hours) :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 2:26 PM Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> said:
> > > I meant downloads as in gigantic games. If you give them more
> > > bandwidth it just encourages the game makes to build bigger game
> > > downloads.
> >
> > I don't buy that - users are still constrained on storage, especially on
> > consoles.
> > --
> > Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>