But didn't you hear? 5G is a replacement for hard wired Internet connections.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Holy bandwidth, Batman! > > > > It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were > electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. > Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb > or a 3 gallon toilet. > > > > Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important > thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone > faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of > leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If > someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed > at. So don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 > Mbps of video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to > join the game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the > people putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in > their living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News > to every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to > room … which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each > screen gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same > show. > > > > I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation > movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces > me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Sterling Jacobson > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now > > > > Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system. > > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native. > > > > This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting > graphics to your local screen. >
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