On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 1:10 PM Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/23/22 12:00 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: > >> The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US > >> household will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump > >> it to a gig or more? > > > > > > Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of > > bandwidth? > > this seems like the wrong question to ask. Or at least a short-sighted question. One question to ask is: "If I have to upgrade from X to 1gbps for my infrastructure over the next 5 years, what's the outlay in capex/opex?" followed by: "What's my cost recovery plan now that I know what the bill will be?" Some of that might be USF, some might be fees from subscribers, etc. Being a gatekeeper to what folk can do at home seems ... not terrific, though. > I want decent upload speeds for offsite backups of my home NAS. But no, > upload is usually some pitiful fraction of download. The local cable > having symmetric speeds over 20mbps certainly is nice, as a user living in that world.
