World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Tue Jun 30 20:32:46 UTC 2015

On 15-06-26 14:04, Hank Disuko wrote:
> 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

BTW, initally, Bell limits it to 940mbps. Likely because the Sagemcom
routers it uses don't have the umph to handle higher bandwidth. (these
boxes also have the hacked VDSL modem that interfaces with the
not-so-compliant and long ago discontinued Stinger DSKAMs that Bell
continued to deploy until 2012 despite these being discontinued in 2005
and never getting full compliance with VDSL2.)

One new CPE routers are found, Bell intends to raise marketed "up to"
speed to 1gnps. Of course, it will br priced so that few people order it
so congestion in 32 home sectors won't be too much of a problem.

Question:

>From the network operator's point of view, is there a huge difference in
network planning:

1- user spends 2 hours streaming a Netflix movie at roughly 6mbps.

2- user spends 5 minutes downloadimng that movie at 150mbps  and then is
idle for 2 hours while watching it ?

Does "2" end up requiring less total capacity because on average fewer
people use it at the same time ?