On 2015-09-11 13:07 Jim Birch wrote: > Once upon a time the sort of speed you can get now from the radio or > satellite connections was sufficient for anything the Internet could throw at > you. Everything was lightweight. Of course, the NBN does disadvantage rural > users relatively by allowing the Internet to work at adequate speed in cities.
It would be interesting to see what applications were practicable (and impracticable) with end-to-end data rates & latencies typical of NBN satellite, wireless, and fibre / DSL connections. I've long wondered about the relationship between technology and real-world utility, and I suspect utility is a decreasing function of speed / latency. Proper end-to-end QoS management makes a difference too. If a RaR user has to download a movie instead of streaming it, they're still far better off than they might have been. Not that I'm supporting the Coalition's fibre-to-the-whatever proposal.... David L. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
