Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Fri Jun 26 22:17:28 UTC 2015

It’s not just about the transfer rate, though.

As has been noted, response times at peak congestion are definitely faster if you have more bandwidth.

So if you’ve got 3 kids all wanting to stream different HD5k content, 50Mbits is going to get interesting.
100Mbps will probably handle it with enough of a jitter buffer. 10G you can probably play instant on
and let the jitter buffer build while playing the first few seconds.

There are a number of other tactics that can improve user experience with more bandwidth than is needed
for the long-term average.

Average transfer rate is a silly way to measure anticipated user experience, as has been pointed out by
others.

Owen

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 14:01 , Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why would one NOW need more than X. Big difference. Simple fact that there is no residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less 10,000 megabit. 
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com> 
> To: "Rafael Possamai" <rafael at gav.ufsc.br> 
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:57:29 PM 
> Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland 
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>> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? 
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> we once asked how a home user would use 56kb, how anyone needed more 
> than 640k in a pee cee, how we would need more than 32 bits in an 
> address. 
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> the only thing not rising is water levels. except the ocean, that is. 
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> randy 
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