Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Jun 5, 2022, at 6:17 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Hi, > Harold Feld did a much better job in November: > > https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/what-the-eff-faa-my-insanely-long-field-guide-to-the-faa-fcc-5g-c-band-fight/ Right. From his article: > But in any e

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dave Taht wrote: Looking back 10 years, I was saying the same things, only then I felt it was 25Mbit circa mike belshe's paper. So real bandwidth requirements only doubling every decade might be a new equation to think about... Required resolution of pictures is bounded by resolution of our ey

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 5:47 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Dave Taht wrote: > > > Looking back 10 years, I was saying the same things, only then I felt > > it was 25Mbit circa mike belshe's paper. So real bandwidth > > requirements only doubling every decade might be a new equation to > > think about

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
"So what happens if the Next Big Thing..." I see this said a lot, but it doesn't really mean anything. We are sufficiently close to whatever is likely to come that it can come and bandwidths will have to catch up upon its launch. If we're not that close, then it's unrealistic to pre-build cap

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Joly MacFie
But, presumably, the carriers/providers do have the data. I've heard it suggested (Vint Cerf to broadband.money) that *any* public funding of ISPs should be contingent on them providing it to the regulators. joly On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 11:40 AM Sean Donelan wrote: > > Look at the difficulty t

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Brandon Butterworth
On Mon Jun 06, 2022 at 08:06:50AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > "So what happens if the Next Big Thing..." I find it sad that so many would argue for never needing anything more than we have today. It's like why did we bother coming out of the trees, or the oceans even (yes Apple digital watches a

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
" I find it sad that so many would argue for never needing anything more than we have today." Few to none are doing that. Upgrades are an organic part of the process. Some places they're hard, but most places they're comparatively easy. Let's stop putting the cart before the horse just to fee

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread John R. Levine
And here are some actual test results: https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-Interference-Assessment-Report_274-20-PMC-2073_accepted_changes.pdf People who understand radios don't think much of that report or the similar AVSI one. If its claims were true, planes would be f

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Casey Russell via NANOG
> > > 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 > firewall

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Jason Canady
On 6/6/22 10:56 AM, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: 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 dramat

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:46 AM Mike Hammett wrote: > > "I find it sad that so many would argue for never needing anything > more than we have today." My principal argument is that we've made a huge mistake with buffering in general, all fixed now by various RFCs and widely available source code,

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
If you want to argue that a bigger number is better, sure. However, regulatory definitions and funding has real meaning. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Casey Russell v

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
> On Jun 6, 2022, at 09:55, John R. Levine wrote: > > Five years ago everyone knew that C band was coming. A reasonable response > would have been for the FAA to work with the FCC to figure out which > altimeters might be affected (old cruddy ones, we now know), and come up with > a plan and

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 6/6/22 07:55, John R. Levine wrote: Five years ago everyone knew that C band was coming.  A reasonable response would have been for the FAA to work with the FCC to figure out which altimeters might be affected (old cruddy ones, we now know), and come up with a plan and schedule to replace

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Casey Russell via NANOG
To be honest, I don't know, I'm not a money person, I just turn knobs. But apparently it costs more than $130 billion dollars. In the US alone. That's what USAC has distributed to carriers in the US in the last 20 years. Last year was north of 8 billion. That's just USAC and that's just for get

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
USF money is about the bottom 1% not the top 1%. I wouldn't be surprised if every Zuckerberg mansion worldwide has a multi-gig connection to support his Metaverse. The top 50% will continue to drive innovation (and bandwidth demand). Broadband service providers claim no ROI to build-out (re

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: To be honest, I don't know, I'm not a money person, I just turn knobs.  But apparently it costs more than $130 billion dollars.  In the US alone.  If I had a magic wand, I would have a separate cap on each USF program including the High Co

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Brandon Butterworth
On Mon Jun 06, 2022 at 09:44:20AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > " I find it sad that so many would argue for never needing anything > more than we have today." > > Few to none are doing that. I must have read different posts. > Upgrades are an organic part of the process. Some places they're >

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Kord Martin
On 2022-06-06 11:32 a.m., Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: But my point was only that if we keep arguing against change and against pushing barriers, then we are what customers (or members) say we are.  obstinate, greedy, uncooperative, and unsupportive of their goals.  I don't think you're a

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread Scott McGrath
Here’s the problem FCC ignored the rest of the world and EU’s 5G deployment in the rest of the world 5G base stations have half the EIRP of their US counterparts and the antenna systems use downtilt so 5G coverage on the ground is better and RADALT operation is largely unaffected except for helic

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Kord Martin wrote: After years and years of being told why it's not feasible to build out infrastructure upgrades to provide internet service, once I started to work in the industry it was pretty shocking to see how customers are actually treated. It's tough to gather cont

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 6:06 AM, Dave Taht wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 5:47 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: Dave Taht wrote: Looking back 10 years, I was saying the same things, only then I felt it was 25Mbit circa mike belshe's paper. So real bandwidth requirements only doubling every decade might be a new eq

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 7:56 AM, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: 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 dramat

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Casey Russell via NANOG
Is it? I mean, as an industry, we already recognize that the average user downloads approx. 5 times more than they upload. In fact, we use it to bash users who want a synchronous speed... tell them that's unreasonable. I get your point, that if you try to use the outliers corner cases as your "m

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 10:40 AM, Casey Russell wrote: Is it?  I mean, as an industry, we already recognize that the average user downloads approx. 5 times more than they upload.  In fact, we use it to bash users who want a synchronous speed... tell them that's unreasonable. I get your point, that if you

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Thomas said: > I meant downloads as in gigantic games. If you give them more > bandwidth it just encourages the game makes to build bigger game > downloads. I don't buy that - users are still constrained on storage, especially on consoles. -- Chris Adams

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Agreed, even with a 16TB drive, that's only 16000*8 ~= 128000 seconds of 1-gigabit download rate (under 36 hours) :) On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 2:26 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Michael Thomas said: > > I meant downloads as in gigantic games. If you give them more > > bandwidth it just

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
is gatekeeping what users MIGHT do, and/or deciding based on corner cases helpful to this discussion? (this isn't meant as a note directly to dorn, just a convenient place to interject) Aside from planning based on a formula like Jason Livingood's plan... OR based on build/deploy/upgrade costs int

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Paul Timmins
How many times have I seen an installer only download the parts it needs vs just reinstall the next version right over top of the existing version? I know stuff like xplane seems to do a comparison of file signatures and only downloads the changed parts for the updates between whatever version

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 11:45 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: Agreed, even with a 16TB drive, that's only 16000*8 ~= 128000 seconds of 1-gigabit download rate (under 36 hours) :) This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to imagine downloads filling to available capacity. Mike On Mon,

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 12:00 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: is gatekeeping what users MIGHT do, and/or deciding based on corner cases helpful to this discussion? (this isn't meant as a note directly to dorn, just a convenient place to interject) Aside from planning based on a formula like Jason Livingood'

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
" I must have read different posts." More likely, a lack of understanding. There's a difference between, "No one should have this" and "the government shouldn't be paying for people to have this at this time." "fortunate few who happen to be in the good locations" Most people live i

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Kord Martin
Happy customers are also good for business. K From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: June 6, 2022 4:55 PM To: Brandon Butterworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers "I must have read different posts." More

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 4:37 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 6/6/22 12:00 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > is gatekeeping what users MIGHT do, and/or deciding based on corner > > cases helpful to this discussion? > > (this isn't meant as a note directly to dorn, just a convenient place > > to int

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
>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

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:38 PM Tony Wicks 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

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 3:36 PM, Tony Wicks 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 popula

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
>To finish up the math here, how much did NZ's fiber buildout cost? I'm not suggesting that the US could build such a network, just that if its available it certainly opens up new levels of convenience and smooth use of the applications. I think it was something like $2-3B USD, don't quote me

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
* Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic? Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I seem to remember the average home connection was about 1.2Mb/s. Now

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 4:08 PM, Tony Wicks wrote: * Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic? Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I seem to remember the average h

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Jim Troutman
Some usage data: On a rural FTTX XGS-PON network with primarily 1Gig symmetric customers, I see about 1.5mbit/customer average inbound across 7 days, peaks at about 10mbit/customer, with 1 minute polling. Zero congestion in middle mile, transit or peering. On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:09 PM Tony Wic

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 4:27 PM, Jim Troutman wrote: Some usage data: On a rural FTTX XGS-PON network with primarily 1Gig symmetric customers, I see about 1.5mbit/customer average inbound across 7 days, peaks at about 10mbit/customer, with 1 minute polling.  Zero congestion in middle mile, transit or pee

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Kauto Huopio
+1 on symmetrical connections. On this corner of the planet many (incumbent) ISPs which provide fiber service, throttle the uplink like 100/10 Mbit/s. There is no technical reason for the uplink limitation - the ISPs are protecting their higher-revenue business label services. 10 Mbit/s uplink is O

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dave Taht wrote: "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)." That NZ