At the same time, our bandwidth costs have dropped, our radios speeds are increasing like crazy, and radios costs and cost per Mbps have either dropped. I’ve seen prices at low as $.28 per Mbps on 10Gbps circuits and even with local loop transport, I’m paying under $1 per Mbps in most places now.
Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 7:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ready for the Xbox one X and 100GB games? I read some scary stuff the other day along a similar vein. Basically if you're selling 25mbps then you'll need a 4:1 oversubscription ratio to support peak hours hi def streaming without complaint. As adoption of 4K video increases, that ratio will approach 1:1. You'll have to either start supplying 100meg, or start billing for consumption....or jack the price way up. They were looking only at streaming video trends, and didn't even consider stuff like this. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jeremy" <jeremysmi...@gmail.com<mailto:jeremysmi...@gmail.com>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: 6/21/2017 1:03:09 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ready for the Xbox one X and 100GB games? Yeah, this sucks for us. Even worse, many of these games come out with dual licenses so that you can play on Windows 10 or XB1 for the same purchase. I bought a couple games and checked it out. It was amazing to be able to just continue my Halo Wars right where I left off on my laptop, but it was double the download size. This makes Forza potentially 200GB, without DLC. When you are providing customers 300-500GB per month without overages it makes heavy Xbox customers very quickly switch providers. I'm not sure if that is a blessing or a curse. For now, it has not been a gigantic churn issue for us, but the future of 4K content will likely hit us all pretty hard. My main issue with this is that purchasing a disc is not an option. I initially bought discs, only to find that even after ripping them to the hard drive, I have to walk down to the network closet to insert the disc. Digitally purchased games can just be loaded from a menu, like all of the hacked consoles. There is no option to 'upgrade' to a digital license if you have purchased a disc. Also, if you own multiple Xbox One consoles (say at home and at work), you can play any of your games on either console, at any time, just not simultaneously. Discs are now useless to me. The only way to get this digital license is to download it from the Internet (or hack the console...not yet an option). This has been a big bummer to heavy Xbox users when they get hit with massive overages, and they usually switch to Comcast. On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: This will be the new normal with the next generation Xbox, when many customers start bringing them home... https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/18/forza_motorsport_7_will_be_100gb_download
