On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:38 PM Tony Wicks <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > > >This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to imagine > >downloads filling to available capacity. > > >Mike > > > > So, a good example of how this capacity is used, In New Zealand we have a > pretty broad fibre network covering most of the population. My niece asked me > to share my backup copy of her wedding photo’s/video’s the other day. I have > a 4Gb/s / 4Gb/s XGSPON connection and she’s got a 1Gb/s / 500Mb/s GPON > connection. I simply dropped a copy of the 5.1G directory into a one drive > folder and shared it, 10 minutes later (one drive is still limited in how > fast you can upload) she had it all and she was very happy. With these speeds > its not even a consideration to think about capacity, everything just works.
"New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 3,558% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~4.9 million people (327.7 million more people live in United States)." To finish up the math here, how much did NZ's fiber buildout cost? -- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
