Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Sat Jun 27 23:36:45 UTC 2015

Based on our 1Gbps residential customers usage, I believe you just sit at home and run speedtest all day.

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> On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael at gav.ufsc.br> wrote:
>
> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person
> it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics,
> going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average
> transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to
> comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than
> anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.
>
>
>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas at zerofail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan.
>>
>> Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/
>>
>> If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko
>> Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM
>> To: NANOG
>> Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
>>
>> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto
>> with the World's Fastest Internet™.
>>
>> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html
>>
>>
>>
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