Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
by berkay on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:07PM
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The examples you're giving are mostly about stored data. We're able to foresee why you may need more, photos, videos, etc. On bandwidth, it's harder to imagine. With 50, you can stream multiple HD videos. What would 105 would give me? I don't know. May be Google Fiber subscribers can provide some insight since they have access to much more.
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
by nitrogen on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:14PM
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Viable off-site backups, faster downloads for large digital purchases (e.g. 30GB games from Steam).
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
by bigdubs on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:10PM
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You answered your own question. How does the data get on those high capacity disks? The faster your pipe, the more content you can fill quickly / easily.
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
by berkay on Monday February 17, 2014 @10:01AM
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In my case it does not provide a compelling case. With 50mb, it is plenty fast and do not feel need for faster. backup of my content does not seem to require more bandwidth either for PCs. I use both Backblaze and Dropbox, and they both work in the background etc, again 50mb is plenty.
Thinking more about this, I think I may need more bandwidth if I were consuming more real-time high volume data. May be the upcoming virtual reality apps (Occulus, etc.) will be the next jump in bandwidth requirements.
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
by DanBC on Sunday February 16, 2014 @12:23PM
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In the UK it is typical to have an ad with huge font saying. "50 MBPS!!!" and a tiny footnote disclaiming "upto that speed, on a good day if you're close".
It's sad that things like speed or megapixels are a single easy to quote number because many people think more is better.
(I'd love a solid 7.5 Mbps and no caps.)
Me, years ago: What will I do with this massive 40 MB hard drive?
Me, years ago: What will I do with this massive 4 GB hard drive?
Me, fewer years ago: What will I do with this massive 40 GB hard drive?
Me, today: This 2 TB hard drive is almost full. How much are 4 TB drives going for?
Me, years ago: Wow! The Internet speeds at college are so fast.
Me, upon every Internet bandwidth increase: I don't need it to be this fast. . . but it sure is nice!
What will I do at 105 that can't do at 50? I don't know yet. That's the point. Almost no one does. 640 kb isn't enough for anybody.