[141772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Sat Jun 11 09:45:02 2011
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: jeroen@mompl.net (Jeroen van Aart)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:44:12 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4DF33692.6000300@mompl.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I don't regard simultaneously streaming 6 channels of TV and downloading
> the latest movie torrent in 2 minutes as a basic necessity, let alone
> essential.
Ten years ago, most people would have been shocked at the idea of a
cell phone that had a touchscreen, a 600MHz CPU, 16GB flash, and the
ability to download at 1Mbps.
Yet today many people find that limiting.
You might not feel that it's important to be able to stream 6 channels
of TV and a torrent, but some of us have been saying for some time
that things are changing. The number of TV's in a household are going
up. Some can now stream directly to the TV. I have numerous devices
that stream Internet radio audio, something that would have seemed
completely frivolous 15 years ago, but today my AV receiver comes with
the capability built-in and I even have an alarm clock that'll do it,
not to mention all the MP3 players, tablet computers, etc. Streaming
video is more demanding, certainly, but for a large family, what you
propose isn't necessarily way out there, especially if we think about
ten years down the road.
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
