> If, 10 years ago (1999) when most internet-connected homes still used > dialup, you had suggested that ISPs would be putting in gigabit > services > to homes, people would have laughed. Yet today, here we are talking > about gig feeds. I wonder how much bandwidth homes will be using 10 > years from now... >
s/be using/have access to/ One could make the argument that when we were doing dial-up over POTS the % utilization vs port speed was higher than today with packet switching to the curb. People have been lamenting the lack of for-profit apps that will actually each up these 100+ mb/s residential pipes (the "killer app"). One could further argue that the talk of gigabit pipes to the home has been ushered in by the cost-effectiveness of gigabit ethernet over SONET or other technologies and this is why we are seeing such a massive increase in the port speeds to customers. As a percentage of pipe available (discounting things like kiddie's using Torrent), I wouldn't be surprised to see that percentage drop. (Residential broadband folks chime in please). Deepak
