Proving Gig Speed

Wed Jul 18 19:32:27 UTC 2018

Whats WiFi?  Is that the "noise" that escapes from the copper cables?  Switch to optical fibre, it does not emit RF noise ...

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The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

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>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike
>Hammett
>Sent: Tuesday, 17 July, 2018 08:42
>To: Mark Tinka
>Cc: NANOG list
>Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed
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>10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away
>from Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs
>prevents anyone from reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever
>alphabet soup comes later.
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>Mike Hammett
>Intelligent Computing Solutions
>http://www.ics-il.com
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>Midwest-IX
>http://www.midwest-ix.com
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>From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
>To: "K. Scott Helms" <kscott.helms at gmail.com>
>Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:11:35 AM
>Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed
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>On 17/Jul/18 14:07, K. Scott Helms wrote:
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>> That's absolutely true, but I don't see any real alternatives in
>some
>> cases. I've actually built automated testing into some of the CPE
>> we've deployed and that works pretty well for some models but other
>> devices don't seem to be able to fill a ~500 mbps link.
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>So what are you going to do when 10Gbps FTTH into the home becomes
>the norm?
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>Perhaps laptops and servers of the time won't even see this as a
>rounding error :-\...
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>Mark.