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- Original Message -
From: TJ [mailto:trej...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 07:39 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 05:34, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote:
Ricardo Ferreira wrote:
Funny, how in the title refers to the Internet globally when the article
is
specific about the USA.
I live in europe and we have at home 100Mbps . Mid sized city of 500k
people. Some ISPs even spread WiFi across town so that subscribers can
have
internet access outside their homes.
Though it's nice to have why would one *need* 100 Mbps at home?
First, since when is Why? important/relevant? :)
Second, working from home - video conferences while working with 10-30mb
(mostly) Powerpoint files (that people keep insisting on emailing multiple
copies of) ... and to be blunt, my time is important. If I can get that
file in seconds instead of minutes that speed is important to me.
Third, 4 windows laptops, 1 Ubuntu laptop, 2 phones, 1 tablet and 2 XBOXes,
1 TV - all of which get updates at certain points and are
streaming/downloading various content simultaneously. And if my console
(game or TV) is getting an update while I want to be playing/watching,
(again) seconds instead of minutes is important :).
Note that it isn't the specific speed that is important - it is relative.
If a noticeable number of Internet users have access at a certain speed 1)
services can be built that take advantage of that and 2) those w/o that
speed are even more left out.
/TJ
