I'd love to see all the software updates from Apple, Microsoft, etc
throttled back heavily.
The end user will not know the difference if their software update takes
10 minutes or 10 days. They don't even know when updates are happening
anyway, they just call about their crummy speed test results and I have
to be like, "yeah you're using all your bandwidth downloading something
from Microsoft"
------ Original Message ------
From: "Simon Westlake" <simon@sonar.software>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 6/21/2017 1:11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ready for the Xbox one X and 100GB games?
The problem with metered billing is that it doesn't solve the problem.
The customer still purchased a game they want to download, or they have
a 4K TV they want to watch movies on. Most people are just going to
look for other options if they have to pay every time they try to use a
device in their household, and even if people are willing to pay, you
still have to be able to deliver enough service to them to give them
the speeds they want.
Until there is more spectrum available, I think DPI is a much better
solution.. you can deprioritize and shape things like game downloads,
and prioritize/shape their video streaming. I wish there was a better
option, but I really don't think implementing UBB is a solution to this
problem. It may give you more money to build up your network a bit, but
it is poison to most customer's ears, and it won't change their
behavior that much unless it's extremely painful for them financially.
On 6/21/2017 10:51 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
metered billing.. wave of the future
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>
To: 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> 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
<https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/18/forza_motorsport_7_will_be_100gb_download>
-- Simon Westlake Email: simon@sonar.software Phone: (702) 447-1247 US
/ (780) 900-1180 CA --------------------------- Sonar Software Inc The
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