On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A question I have for you is why you need that kind of bandwidth and how can > it be
Much like dual (or more) monitors, I cannot honestly say I *need* that bandwidth (or hardware). On the other hand, now that I have grown used to it, I find myself feeling frustrated with anything less. > delivered? Can it be delivered via WiFi? Can it be broadcast? What do you mean by "how can it be delivered"? Are we talking about the last mile via the ISP or what happens once it leaves the ISP's CPE? In our house, we have 4 wifi APs (2 x 802.11g and 2 x 802.11a) and CAT5E to every floor. As for our bandwidth usage, we typically reach 60-80 GiB per month. While this is under the proposed 100 GiB limit, I can and do exceed this at least 2 to three times per year. The services that we use include Netflix, Setanta sports (a sports streaming service, we use it mostly for Soccer and Rugby), streaming audio, remote access to client machines and networks, Internet based backup services (aka the cloud). Currently we are using two different services (rsync.net and backblaze). We both have Dropbox accounts which get heavily used. The backups and Dropbox are starting to close in on 20% of our total traffic. I expect this to continue to grow. We are both heavy web users, her Facebook usage alone is a couple of gigs per month. While slightly outdated, my/our home network looks a little like this: https://www.meganerd.ca/files/misc/lan_meganerd_ca.png (only John is mildly interested in this layout :) With local DNS servers and traffic shaping, our Internet connection is fast and reliable. 7 mbit might seem like a lot (assuming that you even get that, which the majority of DSL users do not), but for us it is simply not the case. We do not even use P2P for the most part (I use bittorrent occasionally to grab some Linux ISO). Even if the wife fires up some p2p client, it gets shaped into near oblivion. > > Most of the population is happy with DSL speeds and I'm one of them. About > all I would At best I would say that it is adequate. Certainly not good or great in the face of what services are now being delivered via the Internet. like to see is IPTV but this is a poor use of bandwidth but then once the wires are in we It is more efficient than blasting 100 channels 24 hours per day, that will most likely see only a small fraction of subscribers viewing. On-demand is the way it needs to be for the vast majority of content. should pay for the MAINTENENCE of the wires and not the USE of the wires. Internet cables are not like water pipes! > The reality is a little more complicated than this. There is constant upkeep of the network infrastructure required. The bits themselves are composed of electrons, which while small is still a non-zero cost. The routers, firewalls, DNS and DHCP servers, the staff to maintain and protect it all. This is just a small sampling of what is required to get the bits to our homes. > As I see it the services a company like Telus should provide is hanging the > wires and fixing them. But then I happen to have an account at Anixiter and > they do happen to sell both copper communications cables as well as fiber > communications cables. At this time fiber is so cheap there is no reason > WHAT SO EVER to use copper! Bandwidth on fiber is basically unlimited! Again a misnomer. The optical gear at each end of the strand of fiber is still expensive. Switching is still done in copper (cheap optical switching will radically change the economics but we are going to have to wait a little more for this). On top of this most of our homes only have copper or coax connecting them. There are still a lot of good reasons to use copper. > > its not that the technology so not exist or that it is not affordable... the > problem is we arn't allowed to use it and we are the ones who paid for it in > the first place! So Telus just sits there and gouges where they can while > they can! > That is just business 101. Telus is not the only one. The market only works in our favour when there is real competition. Just look at the cell phone market for how this can all go awry. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
