Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

It’s not just about the transfer rate, though.

As has been noted, response times at peak congestion are definitely faster if you have more bandwidth.

So if you’ve got 3 kids all wanting to stream different HD5k content, 50Mbits is going to get interesting.
100Mbps will probably handle it with enough of a jitter buffer. 10G you can probably play instant on
and let the jitter buffer build while playing the first few seconds.

There are a number of other tactics that can improve user experience with more bandwidth than is needed
for the long-term average.

Average transfer rate is a silly way to measure anticipated user experience, as has been pointed out by
others.

Owen

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 14:01 , Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
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> Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why would one NOW need more than X. Big 
> difference. Simple fact that there is no residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less 
> 10,000 megabit. 
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com> 
> To: "Rafael Possamai" <rafael () gav ufsc br> 
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> 
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:57:29 PM 
> Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland 
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> > How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? 
>
> we once asked how a home user would use 56kb, how anyone needed more 
> than 640k in a pee cee, how we would need more than 32 bits in an 
> address. 
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> the only thing not rising is water levels. except the ocean, that is. 
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> randy