FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers
Michael Thomas
mike at mtcc.com
Mon Jun 6 17:13:03 UTC 2022
On 6/6/22 7:56 AM, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote:
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> For a long time now...
>
> I have had the opinion that we have reached the age of "peak
> bandwidth", that nearly nobody's 4 person home needs more than 50Mbit
> with good queue management. Certainly increasing upload
> speeds dramatically (and making static IP addressing and saner
> firewalling feasible) might shift some resources from the cloud, which
> I'd like (anyone using tailscale here?), but despite
> 8k video (which nobody can discern), it's really hard to use up >
> 50Mbit for more than a second or three with current applications.
>
>
> One single digital game download to a console (xbox, playstation,
> etc.) can be over 80Gb of data. That's half of your Saturday just
> waiting to play a game. That assumes you'r'e getting the full 50Mbit
> (your provider isn't oversubscribing) to yourself in the home. It
> also assumes your console (and all the games on it) is fully updated
> when you fired it up to download that new game. Hope you didn't want a
> couple of new games (after Christmas or a birthday). I admit, it's not
> a daily activity, and it might not look like much in a monthly
> average. But I'd argue there are plenty of applications where 50Mbit
> equals HOURS of download wait for "average families" already today,
> not seconds.
And gig everywhere would just encourage them to make 8000GB downloads.
Downloading is a really bad thing to use as a reason.
Mike
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