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more on comments? Does faster broadband really matter?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:31:48 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Les Vadasz <les () vadasz com> Date: December 28, 2005 8:07:04 PM EST To: "'David Farber'" <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: comments? Does faster broadband really matter? Dave, This is an interesting argument, and not a new one. Why does anyone need more bandwidth? Let me give you a personal experience.I created picture album for the family, using Adobe Photoshop Elements. I
than converted it into a format recognizable by MyPublisher.com, a print service that creates a picture book, based on your design. After theircompression engine, I ended up with uploading to MyPublisher.com over 100 Mbytes over my DSL, which does that at 200+ Kbit rate. (my downloads are at about 1 Mbit rate on a good day...) This was fine, just took a while, and
fortunately my DSL did not go down in the middle of the session.The trouble came later. I received an email from the publisher that I made a
mistake in my edits. I was not home, so I tried to access my files viaGoToMyPC, and download it to my location. This was an even bigger file, as I needed to make corrections way earlier in the process. Needless to say, I could not download 250+ Mbytes... So, I traveled an extra 170 miles, and had an extra day delay in the process, which in this case did matter... but that
is another story.Frankly, I do not think that this kind of application is that outlandish, or that futuristic. To me the right barometer should be that anything you can do at your machine, you should be able to do over the network. Yes, we are
not there, but this should be the long term goal. In the meantime, I would love to have 100 Mbit, symmetrical, end-to-end. Les Vadasz -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:18 PM To: Ip Ip Subject: comments? Does faster broadband really matter? Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: December 27, 2005 11:28:55 AM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Does faster broadband really matter? Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com Does faster broadband really matter? 12/26/2005 5:17:49 PM, by Jeremy Reimer <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051226-5846.html> Internet blogger Om Malik has written an interesting piece on the new, faster broadband connections that are now becoming available to US consumers. His premise is that the faster speeds are not that important, because they don't translate into a significantly better experience for the end user. The gist of his argument is that most online activities, like standard websurfing, are not significantly sped up by high-bandwidth connections, and the few that are, such as downloading, are not typically time-sensitive anyway: Websurfing runs at only about a megabit per second, and nearly everything else except downloading is effectively throttled down at the source. Downloading turns out to have some natural limits as well; at 100 Mbps, you can download enough music for 24 hours of listening in only four minutes per day. The practical result, confirmed by high speed leaders like Masayoshi Son of Yahoo BB in Japan, is that the faster speeds yield only a extremely modest increase in real traffic demand. [snip] Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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