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Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:15:54 +0200
On 26/Jun/15 23:56, Mark Andrews wrote:
Unfortunately ISP's have made it about link speed rather than what it really is about because link speed was the limiting factor.
When 1Gbps becomes mainstream to the home, I think it will stop being about link speed (well, for a while anyway, because who knows...). As others have mentioned, a single device pulling 1Gbps in the home is asking a lot, even if it were connected to the home router via copper/fibre. As most devices in the home will be wi-fi-based, 1Gbps is safe (for now). Of course, more devices in the home will put pressure on 1Gbps, but not before they put pressure on the wi-fi network. So again, 1Gbps is safe, for now. The wired devices that could draw on that 1Gbps big time will be the STB's, gaming consoles (even those use wi-fi), home media servers, e.t.c. Depending on what one does with those, they may or may not draw much from the 1Gbps fibre coming into the house. Even if the service provider was dropping a 1080p or 4K IPTv Multicast stream into 3x STB's in the home (one for the living room, one for the man-cave and another random one in the house), and each STB had at least two tuners (watch on one tuner, record from another tuner), you're still looking at less than 120Mbps for all 3x STB's running + recording simultaneously, assuming each tuner is pulling 20Mbps when active. Of course, with 2015 families not glued to their Tv's as much as previous generations did, that is less demand for classic Tv. So all in all, with 1Gbps, there is a reasonable chance that, at the very least, the connection between the home and the nearest service provider switch will be utilitarian. The problem now is, who gets that 1Gbps link to their house, around the world? Mark.
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- Re: World's Fastest Internet in Canadaland Clayton Zekelman (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland mikea (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Mark Tinka (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Andy Ringsmuth (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Owen DeLong (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Jared Mauch (Jun 26)
- Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Mark Andrews (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Mark Tinka (Jun 26)
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- Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Rafael Possamai (Jun 26)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Irwin, Kevin (Jun 27)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Rafael Possamai (Jun 27)
- Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland Eugeniu Patrascu (Jun 28)
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