Re: Proving Gig Speed

[James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com>]

On 17 July 2018 at 17:18, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
> I don't think you understand the gravity of the in-home interference issue. Unfortunately, neither does the IEEE.
>
> It doesn't need to be in lock-step, but if a significant number of homes have issues getting over 100 megabit 
> wirelessly, I'm not sure we need to be concerned about 10 gigabit to the home.

Maybe leaky feeder cables will become the norm, running along the
walls/ceilings of all new build homes?

But assuming a wired connection within the premises for a moment, and
that we get 1Gbps over that wired connection, because we all have
FTTH: For the question of "does it make any difference (1Gbps/10Gbps
instead of 100Mbps)": If I download a 4K movie to watch it should take
an order of magnitude less time at 1Gbps than 100Mbps. Or even when
streaming, my player will fetch a video chunk/segment that is
typically in the 3-10 seconds range, I would fetch each chunk much
quicker, and so my ISPs connection spends more time idle, which means
their backbone carries a higher volume of traffic for a smaller period
of time. There is some benefit to be had in the balance of a user
consuming X Mbps across the backbone for Y seconds or X^2 Mbps but for
Y/10 seconds. It expect it would affect oversubscription and content
ratios.

Cheers,
James.