Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Fri Jun 26 21:48:07 UTC 2015

The issue here is economics.  1G hardware is cheap, as in sub-$100 for
a 1G CPE with SMF in one side and RJ45 out the other.

Even if you decide to limit yourself at 100m or similar, if you build it at the
optics side, it is more expensive than building at 1G.

Because of this, 1G is the most sensible speed/solution.

I believe that many people won’t get a real quantity of usage from their
links because they will be on 2.4ghz wifi regardless.  If you have your
home wired, you might get something faster but the largest users these days
tend to be adaptive streaming video which uses around 16Mb/s for a 4K stream
from Netflix, or software updates from Apple.

Speaking of which, since 8.4 is launching next week and tends to be
one of the larger internet events these days (more so than victoria secret
turned out to be by ratio) I’m awaiting a surge of software updates
for all the iDevices around the world.

- Jared

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:39 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
>> 
>> 
>> 