Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home?

Posted by shotgun on Saturday September 18, 2010 @02:21AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Chattanooga, TN is one of the first communities to offer 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home internet service. And many communities are in the running for Google's upcoming 1 Gbps fiber deployment. But I'm tired of hearing the usual "I'd watch movies online without buffering delays" pedestrian responses. What awesome things would you HNers do if you had 1 Gbps at home?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by nl on Sunday September 19, 2010 @10:45PM (#1707552)

Depending on latency, I'd move all my storage to the cloud (ok, realistically I'd have a SSD for a local cache & apps, but you get the idea).

I never, ever want to worry about where my GB's of photos and music and videos are again.

I'd run my own black-box recorder in my car, which would auto-sync all my trip data - including video - when I got home.

I'd run CCTV around the house and stream the data 24/7, at high res so faces would actually be recognizable in the footage.

I'd expect the strain monitors in every joint in my house to be recording their levels with the cloud based application which will alert me anytime any reach unacceptable thresholds.

I'd except my radar-based climate control system to be able to tell me the air temperature and wind velocity of every single cubic inch of air in my house over the past week, and compare with trends over the last year by looking at my cloud stored data.

Finally, I'd be able to prove to my wife that yes, I really did say I'd be late home from work tonight by playing back that "conversation" we had where I yelled "Oh yeah, I'll be late home next week" when I was walking out the door a week ago :)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by cheesey on Saturday September 18, 2010 @05:05AM (#1703961)

Leave Linux distribution torrents on seed, to help out other users. If you set the bandwidth speeds correctly, you could use 50% of your bandwidth while still having a fast connection left over.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by _b8r0 on Saturday September 18, 2010 @06:13AM (#1704019)

I'd develop a transparent clustering mechanism using Amazon EC2 to provide 1Gbps interconnect-based offloaded processing. For many tasks this would be near real time (think media encoding, password cracking, rainbow table generation) but having it scale transparently based on monthly budget would be awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by mark_l_watson on Saturday September 18, 2010 @12:24PM (#1704427)

I mostly work from home (and I live in the mountains 2.5 hours from a large airport) so I would like high quality video conferencing with shared whiteboards, etc.

Right now I use video mostly for talking to remote family members, but a high quality telepresence to "be in" a remote conference room would be great.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by ljf on Saturday September 18, 2010 @05:33AM (#1703983)

if it's symmetric then I'd be my own rich media host, maybe dumping a full lifeblog of my life everyday, maybe just ensuring that I get was my own personal cloud when I was out and about.

but really most of my web use only needs a 1mb line; read blobs, check news, look at pics, very little video.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by mathgladiator on Saturday September 18, 2010 @02:30AM (#1703803)

Well, that depends. What is the up?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by shotgun on Saturday September 18, 2010 @03:50AM (#1703881)

I believe Google's networks are going to be symmetric. For the sake of discussion let's assume 1 Gbps up.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by mathgladiator on Saturday September 18, 2010 @02:10PM (#1704634)

I'd run my own MMO.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by adrianscott on Saturday September 18, 2010 @09:40AM (#1704157)

pair coding with video, 3d videoconferencing, brady-bunchesque multi-person video conferencing (which would include games, collaborative art projects, etc.)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by adrianscott on Saturday September 18, 2010 @09:42AM (#1704159)

3d multi-person chatroulette ;) (ok, i'm waiting for the high-probability comment that follows this... first good one wins a point, whee)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 1 Gbps at home? by bustamove on Saturday September 18, 2010 @03:30AM (#1703867)

Bash shell provider, like in the ol`good days

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