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| Can an ISP still make money If Time Warner makes good money splitting a 38 Mbps line between 500 or even just 250 users can they still make money if they have to reduce that to say 5 or 10 users?
A $10,000 per month 1 GB connection starts to get real thin in the face of just a hundred users that want to sit down to a little HD after dinner.
Seems like a big change to me. And, of course, it all depends on how widely HD streaming gets adopted. | | |
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| That $10,000/gbit isn't completely accurate... In downtown LA you can get a 1Gbit connection for ~3,000-5,000/month. | |
| reply to Millenniumle
I see your point, but, if people using such bandwidth-intensive apps is the problem, then why are these ISP's offering such insane speeds? Comcast around here was offering 8 Mbps down a while back, and they may have increased it since the last time I checked. What do they think people will do with that? Surf and read mail? I can do that just fine on a 1.5 Mbps connection. Anything much faster than that shifts the bottleneck from my end of the connection to the server. So either you pay for tons of bandwidth you won't use, or you use it with services that can take full advantage of it, such as HD video.
If someone gives me a Ferrari, they shouldn't expect me to drive it like a Chevy. | |
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said by Millenniumle:If Time Warner makes good money splitting a 38 Mbps line between 500 or even just 250 users can they still make money if they have to reduce that to say 5 or 10 users? A $10,000 per month 1 GB connection starts to get real thin in the face of just a hundred users that want to sit down to a little HD after dinner. Seems like a big change to me. And, of course, it all depends on how widely HD streaming gets adopted. Exactly... The software is outpacing the hardware. The kiddies don't get that. Too bad, when a resource becomes precious due to whatever pressure, it is then a precious resource. If the ISPs can not deliver ninety million video streams at 8 PM every day because the bandwidth is simply not available, then the heavy user simply has to be the one to pay the cost of haulin' the bits...
Nothing complicated there...
Now, let me see ninety million video streams, is what? 90,000,000 times 1,500,000. That is about 16,875,000,000,000 bytes/sec. That is a big number. That number is 16.9 terabytes. Yep, bytes, not bits. That is *A REALLY BIG NUMBER* and delivering that kind of bandwidth is *REALLY EXPENSIVE*. Really expensive...
... and you want Mable, the 75 year old widow who checks her E-Mail once per day to help you pay for your part of it ...
You should be ashamed...
(Mind you that was not aimed at Millenniumle) | |
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