On Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:27:41 AEST Michael wrote: > But my computer does struggle even now with some tasks. It is a pain to do a > full back up to off-site locations. Video conferencing is poor (I urge you > to try a Cisco telepresence video conference if you have the chance. It uses > about 30mbps). When you buy a new Xbox you need to budget several hours for > the downloads of all the updates before you can play a game. [...] I am > sure there are game developers right now who would love to be able to design > a game with tens of megabits of bandwidth they could rely upon. > > Most of these needs occur for mobile users too. [...] If 5G means I can be > as carefree as I am at home, that is a win.
In a properly-managed Australia you'd have a fibre connection to your home, or at least something a lot better than &(^%* FTTN. And you should then be able to get decent WiFi speeds to your mobile devices. > In the last couple of years, always on, effectively unlimited data transfer > on home links has opened the door to new apps like distributed file transfer, > blockchains, non-hardware media entertainment, voip, video conferencing and > other things routinely. 15 years ago the same things were hard and just for > hobbyists. Let's see what 5G always on, effectively unlimited data to mobile > devices brings. Well it will be interesting to see how many people are prepared to pay for all that bandwidth-sec usage. I wouldn't like to be the person doing the cost / benefit / risk analysis for the telcos. Cheers, DavidL _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
