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Re: sooner or later said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. EVERYTHING? Video? Backups? My wife tried to upload an 800 MB video file yesterday. Fortunately, we have 35 Mbps symmetrical fiber.
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1 edit | and your wife is the 'average' user ?
I consider myself a high end user - but don't upload nearly anything in comparison.
I do suspect that online backups will be a more common item, requiring bandwidth chewing upload (actually more than download in some cases).
I think what needs to be defined is 'AVERAGE'.
What percent upload that kind of data vs. spend hours on YouTube (yeah - some will be uploading lots of video!) and Facebook.
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you know for those people that have servers, local backups at 100mbps or even 1Gbps is much easier than relying on an "online backup service"
For about 6 machines in my house, the "backups" are done in just a couple of hours for all 6 machines for the night. If I really wanted a off site backup storage facility I guess I could run an ethernet cable to the garage and put a box out there, or a fireproof safe wouldn't be a bad investment either. I would have saved the cost over time that way.
Right now with the machines in the house I "backup" about 1.1Gb of data, across a redundant drive array.
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and your wife is the 'average' user ?
She's not far off. She only just seriously started tinkering with video creation. Besides, "average" is a loose definition, and today's "extreme" user is tomorrow's average user. I see no problem with a phone company taking the impressive profits of today and investing them into the network of tomorrow in anticipation of this wave. |
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| said by Karl Bode:I see no problem with a phone company taking the impressive profits of today and investing them into the network of tomorrow in anticipation of this wave. 1st the profits are NOT that impressive. They just about cover the cost of capital. And I am sure the investors are not so cavalier about investing all their profits before it is REALLY needed. |
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1 edit | 1st the profits are NOT that impressive. AT&T's profits absolutely are impressive, especially when looking at wireless. I have no idea what planet you're living on if you think otherwise.And I am sure the investors are not so cavalier about investing all their profits before it is REALLY needed. Investors are frequently myopic ninnies who can't see five feet in front of their own short term interests, and their perspective is not reality. They're building card houses, not networks. |
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said by Karl Bode:said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. EVERYTHING? Video? Backups? My wife tried to upload an 800 MB video file yesterday. Fortunately, we have 35 Mbps symmetrical fiber. "What will Joe Schmoe do with such technology" always winds up being such a silly question.... My dad, mom and siblings are "average" users. I'm the techno geek.
They don't upload 800Mb videos every day or even occasionally. In fact I don't think they have uploaded something so large, ever.
Most "average" users don't need a lot of upload, and that is the point. |
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