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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Jun 26 14:56:50 2015
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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:25:15 +0530
To: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Parkinson's law of sorts? Use expanding to fill the bandwidth available
One kid with a torrent downloading random stuff, streaming hd and music off t=
he internet etc and a family of four can make decent inroads into gigabit or=
so I would have thought=20
Don't even start counting say a gb here and several mb there in software, os=
etc upgrades across a variety of devices.
Exrtrapolating from current usage levels on comparatively lower speed broadb=
and doesn't quite make sense to me
--srs
> On 27-Jun-2015, at 12:09 am, Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br> wrote:
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> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single perso=
n
> it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics,
> going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average
> transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to
> comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than
> anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.
>=20
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>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas@zerofail.com> wrote:
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>> Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan.
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>> Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/
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>> If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
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>> Eric
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko
>> Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM
>> To: NANOG
>> Subject: World's Fastest Internet=E2=84=A2 in Canadaland
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>> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toront=
o
>> with the World's Fastest Internet=E2=84=A2.
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>> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toro=
nto-worlds-fastest-internet.html
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