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CorydonCultivant son jardinPremium
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Denver, CO | reply to Cabal
Re: They aren't incorrect. said by Cabal:Current speeds ARE more than adequate for the vast majority of users. Remember, hobbyists reading BBR are far from a majority of users, or even common at that. We are a very small, overly vocal, minority. Ten years ago, 56k was more than adequate for the vast majority of users.
Moving to higher tiers of speed is a little bit of a chicken-and-egg problem at first, but if the barriers to adoption are low enough, applications that take advantage of the higher speeds will quickly appear. The more applications that appear that require a faster connection, the more people will upgrade.
It eventually becomes a virtuous circle, with the companies that fail to jump on the bandwagon (glaring example is AOL) getting left in the dust.
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| Actually, I'd venture to say it was "acceptable" but not adequate.
At the point you could stream audio it became adequate since most people don't pull down more than low rez video. | |
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said by Corydon:said by Cabal:Current speeds ARE more than adequate for the vast majority of users. Remember, hobbyists reading BBR are far from a majority of users, or even common at that. We are a very small, overly vocal, minority. Ten years ago, 56k was more than adequate for the vast majority of users. Moving to higher tiers of speed is a little bit of a chicken-and-egg problem at first, but if the barriers to adoption are low enough, applications that take advantage of the higher speeds will quickly appear. The more applications that appear that require a faster connection, the more people will upgrade. It eventually becomes a virtuous circle, with the companies that fail to jump on the bandwagon (glaring example is AOL) getting left in the dust. Actually, 10 years ago 56k wasn't adequate at all. Which is why companies like @Home were expanding fast. Consumers were just starting to get used to the idea of a always on broadband connection back then. Back in 1996-1997, people were questioning the need. But I digress....
These applications are just now starting to come around. Look at Slingbox for instance. I could think of more devices that are on the horizon that could benefit from increased upstream bandwidth.
However, as a whole, right now a majority of users are indeed happy with their connections. A vast majority of them don't need high speed low latency connections. The people here on BBR are a different breed however. | |
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