Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world?
by tzs on Saturday March 10, 2018 @06:24PM
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For games, don't forget downloading the game. More and more, people are buying their games online for download instead of getting then on DVD or Blu-ray.
Some games are over 50 GB nowadays. That would be something like a 12 hour download on 10 mbps.
Rationally, that shouldn't be a problem, for a couple of reasons.
First, downloading a game should be a relatively rare event, because between game downloads you presumably are playing the games which should take a lot longer than downloading the games.
Second, even 12 hours to download a game is a lot quicker than buying it on DVD or Blu-Ray online and having it shipped to you. It's quite a bit slower than buying it in person at a local store (travel time plus an hour or so to copy from the discs to your computer depending on the speed of your disc drive), but buying in store has its own annoyances (especially if it is a hot new release that is hard to find in stock).
But people aren't rational. They don't see waiting 12 hours to start playing the hot new game they just bought and happily think "Wow...this is way better than how it worked before I got this 10 mbps internet connection!".
They see a 12 hour wait to get their game and think that their internet sucks.
Some games are over 50 GB nowadays. That would be something like a 12 hour download on 10 mbps.
Rationally, that shouldn't be a problem, for a couple of reasons.
First, downloading a game should be a relatively rare event, because between game downloads you presumably are playing the games which should take a lot longer than downloading the games.
Second, even 12 hours to download a game is a lot quicker than buying it on DVD or Blu-Ray online and having it shipped to you. It's quite a bit slower than buying it in person at a local store (travel time plus an hour or so to copy from the discs to your computer depending on the speed of your disc drive), but buying in store has its own annoyances (especially if it is a hot new release that is hard to find in stock).
But people aren't rational. They don't see waiting 12 hours to start playing the hot new game they just bought and happily think "Wow...this is way better than how it worked before I got this 10 mbps internet connection!".
They see a 12 hour wait to get their game and think that their internet sucks.