Maybe so you can tell your wife “see honey, I didn’t get the fastest plan they offered, I compromised to save money”. Given 3 choices, you always pick the one in the middle. Pick the silver, not the bronze or gold plan.
One thing I worry about is the content providers may be pushing for a world where they don’t have to worry about how fast the customer’s connection is, the sky’s the limit. I suspect some video streams that only need 2.5 or 5 Mbps, will stall and sputter unless the customer’s Internet connection is 20 or 50 Mbps because they burst the data and go all wonky if those bursts get a haircut in transit. And to the customer, it’s an ISP problem. Yet if we try to shape the video traffic to prevent this, we risk violating Open Internet rules by treating some content differently. So what everyone expects is for us to provide an infinite pipe so customers and content providers can use it however they want. From: mailto:[email protected] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH My question is, who is running around complaining that their 1 Gbps Internet sucks? "Oh my god! My Internet is SO SLOW! Someone needs to give me 10Gbps!" On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]> wrote: I would like to see these hippie google bastards tooling around in east st louis, Alphabet would have to generate a body armor company On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: East St. Louis... -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2015/10/15/square-ipo-filing-shows-fast-growth-consistent-losses/73985492/ And in the case of Google Fiber, how would we know if it was profitable? Unless Alphabet intends to split off companies to stand on their own. I do find it interesting that everyone focuses on the last mile bandwidth, as if that's the whole story. At least with business service, you don't have the ridiculous scenario of someone running their 10 Gbps residential Internet into an AC3200 router and doing speedtests on their iPad. But if they sell 10 Gbps business service at lower than datacenter bandwidth pricing, what happens if businesses start actually using it like DIA or datacenter bandwidth? Like someone decides to sell cloud gaming or streaming video or some business model that involves hundreds of screens streaming 4K video? Maybe some real time medical imaging application. And all this gigabit activity in cities doesn't really prove much about less populated or economically distressed areas. If Google's intent is to prove something, rather than cherry-pick, I'd still like to see them wire Detroit or Newark. Not the wealthy suburbs or select "fiberhoods". Do the whole city and show how it sparks an urban revival. Or go do a small rural town or a tribal reservation. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH And, they are operating the system at a profit, right...? -----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH Does Google know they are getting out played by a small city? :) http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/10gbps-internet-offered-by-city-fighting-anti-muni-broadband-laws/ Travis -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
