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

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

At this point I don't think we can reasonably expect something like an
online purchased game from the Microsoft store for somebody's new Xbox
Series X to *not* be a 150GB download. There's a number of games out there
like that. And if people only have 25 to 50Mbps downstream they absolutely
will complain that it takes way too long.

We may not conceptually agree with it but that is certainly what the game
developers are doing and publishing.



On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 12:05, Paul Timmins <paul () telcodata us> wrote:

> How many times have I seen an installer only download the parts it needs
> vs just reinstall the next version right over top of the existing
> version? I know stuff like xplane seems to do a comparison of file
> signatures and only downloads the changed parts for the updates between
> whatever version I have and whatever version is current now, but I'd
> imagine a lot of installers these days just take advantage of the fact
> the user has a super fast connection and they don't have to care about
> shipping the entire new installer just to run an update.
>
> Not to mention whatever amounts of shovelware come with a few megabyte
> print driver for a modern printer/scanner/copier. Let's just include a
> copy of McAfee endpoint protection in this java update in case the user
> opts into selecting that as an option during install? etc.
>
> -Paul
>
> On 6/6/22 14:24, Chris Adams 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.