 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to Dogfather
Re: Overkill and overpriced said by Dogfather:And sure, I can think of a future of where we could conceivably use 100Mb service...a couple of 1080P IPTV streams could do it alone. But that kind of offering will be a long time coming, thus 100Mb won't be of any use for a long time coming. I'm not sure what relevance the rest of your post had so I'll address the issue I thought we were originally discussing.
If there weren't any use for it, I doubt they'd be offering it. I could think of several uses for it right now outside of IPTV streaming but again, you're still thinking one-dimensionally. With 100Mbps, you can start doing all kinds of things, like video conferencing, sharing videos real-time to OTHER friends XBox/Wii/PS3 consoles, video streaming to your home (as you mentioned) ... there are a multitude of things that 100Mbps opens up.
The most important aspect is the application we CAN'T think of. Just like when broadband was introduced and people wondered (and some still do) why anyone needed more than 1.5Mbps, 100Mbps opens the door to a lot of interactivity you simply can't do now.
And server bandwidth is cheap so capacity will catch up with home connections very quickly. We get 100GB of premium bandwidth from our datacenter on a 100Mbps port for a little less than a dollar a GB. That price will not do anything but go down. |
