One data point: I live in rural Washington County. I'm on DSL, and
typically get ~750Kbps down, that CenturyLink calls 1.5Mbps. When I need
to update Ubuntu, Eclipse, do a major Windows (ugh) update, or
download/update several other tools I drive (carbon footprint) to work
or the library.
Brad
On 1/30/2015 9:08 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
On Jan 30, 2015 7:55 PM, "Pavel Kirkovsky" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Personal communications, telecommuting (commuting is stressful and a
waste of time/fuel + contributes to climate change), small/home
business development, lower barriers to general economic and
technological development, education (MOOCs, etc) especially for
people in remote areas and those unable to afford regular tuition,
telehealth/telemedicine (remote diagnosis, etc), better government
services, general quality of life improvements, etc. Also, a higher
degree of freedom and privacy (self-hosted stuff).
> And lastly: applications that haven't been invented yet.
None of those seem like they require bigger tubes than already run to
people's homes. Unless you live in a house with lots of people in it.
>
> If broadband is frivolous, why aren't we all still using 56K dialup?
>
My point was just that, that moving up from 56k to broadband was the
big deal... Who out there is actually constrained by /only/ a few
megabits?
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