MooJohn
join:2005-12-18
Milledgeville, GA
 ·Windstream
| "Teh Intarnet" is not ready for the bandwidth hogs
"When you start adding up how much bandwidth that the average home with a couple of teenagers might consume between 6 and 9 at night -- two or three people watching HDTV shows, playing music from the Internet, playing online games -- the bandwidth demands are going to be gigantic"
Well maybe that just means that the technology available to most end users isn't ready to stream HDTV! The bandwidth used by most online games isn't much; it's latency that's critical to them. I've supported over 200 users (typical email/web browsing) sharing a 6mbit DSL connection so don't tell me it's overwhelmed by 2-3 people in one family.
To expect an ISP to spend billions of dollars to implement FIOS to every doorstep and then face customers willing to pay no more than $50/mo is ludicrous. They're a business, not a charity. Sure, it'd be nice, but they're just not going to do that as long as it doesn't make financial sense.
Do you think ISPs have the capacity to support thousands of users at 100mbit+, all downloading whatever they can simply because they can? All of this costs money, and not the kind a $10 rate increase would pay for in less than a century.
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John M - Cranky network guy |
