 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | reply to battleop
Re: ??? The biggest problem is trying find a site that will upload your photos and videos for you to share that can even take advantage of a 2 Mbit upload.
Who can blame these sites? Our ISP's have generally been keeping our upload transfer rates at such a pathetically low level, there was no need to provide higher upload speeds from a practical standpoint. Hopefully, with the continual increase in upload speeds, we will start to see more sites offering much better performance when uploading files. |
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | said by jmn1207:The biggest problem is trying find a site that will upload your photos and videos for you to share that can even take advantage of a 2 Mbit upload. The vast majority of sites on the internet cant handle more than 10Mbps upload OR download. Heck, a good portion of sites are still served by T1's these days.
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 IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | said by wifi4milez:The vast majority of sites on the internet cant handle more than 10Mbps upload OR download. Heck, a good portion of sites are still served by T1's these days. So why do we have datacentres with 100Mbit+ ports connecting to multi-gigabit switches when the vast majority of sites are still on 10Mbps?
Seriously are the majority of internet sites hosted on regular ethernet or lower bandwidth? How many sites sit off T1s?
We're talking actual websites, etc, right? Even my cheapy hosted site for a few bucks a month achieves over 10Mbit in both directions... |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by Ignite:said by wifi4milez:The vast majority of sites on the internet cant handle more than 10Mbps upload OR download. Heck, a good portion of sites are still served by T1's these days. So why do we have datacentres with 100Mbit+ ports connecting to multi-gigabit switches when the vast majority of sites are still on 10Mbps? Seriously are the majority of internet sites hosted on regular ethernet or lower bandwidth? How many sites sit off T1s? We're talking actual websites, etc, right? Even my cheapy hosted site for a few bucks a month achieves over 10Mbit in both directions... Many data centers serve end user customers (banks, media companies, etc.) who host their applications there. These customers do have a need for high bandwidth, however most of it is for internal use. Also keep in mind that data centers have multiple gigabit switches simply because of the number of customers they serve.
You are correct that the standard bandwidth for websites is now slowly migrating towards 10Mbps (due to the ease in provisioning a 10/100 port), however even when using ethernet often times sub 10Mbps bandwidths are chosen by the website provider. Dont take my word for it however, if you search around you will find that many sites still do not even support connections at 10Mbps simply due to the fact that they dont need to. Many people in this country can not get 10Mbps, so why would content providers (or websites) pay to support the few end users who can?
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IgnitePremium,VIP
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UK | said by wifi4milez:Many people in this country can not get 10Mbps, so why would content providers (or websites) pay to support the few end users who can? Because they have to operate on the assumption that more than one person at a time will be using their website / content perhaps. A content provider on a 10Mbps port serving 5 customers concurrently wouldn't really be providing at much pace. |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | said by Ignite:said by wifi4milez:Many people in this country can not get 10Mbps, so why would content providers (or websites) pay to support the few end users who can? Because they have to operate on the assumption that more than one person at a time will be using their website / content perhaps. A content provider on a 10Mbps port serving 5 customers concurrently wouldn't really be providing at much pace. While that is true to some extent, 10Mbps is still not the standard for many sites. Even those that do have higher bandwidth connections limit how much resources a given client can take up. They do this for the very reason you just mentioned; if a single user with a high capacity connection accesses the site they want to make sure others still can.
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