Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

[Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us>]

On 6/6/22 10:56 AM, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote:
>     For a long time now...
>
>     I have had the opinion that we have reached the age of "peak
>     bandwidth", that nearly nobody's 4 person home needs more than 50Mbit
>     with good queue management. Certainly increasing upload
>     speeds dramatically (and making static IP addressing and saner
>     firewalling feasible) might shift some resources from the cloud, which
>     I'd like (anyone using tailscale here?), but despite
>     8k video (which nobody can discern), it's really hard to use up >
>     50Mbit for more than a second or three with current applications.
>
>
> One single digital game download to a console (xbox, playstation, 
> etc.) can be over 80Gb of data.  That's half of your Saturday just 
> waiting to play a game.  That assumes you'r'e getting the full 50Mbit 
> (your provider isn't oversubscribing) to yourself in the home.  It 
> also assumes your console (and all the games on it) is fully updated 
> when you fired it up to download that new game. Hope you didn't want a 
> couple of new games (after Christmas or a birthday). I admit, it's not 
> a daily activity, and it might not look like much in a monthly 
> average.  But I'd argue there are plenty of applications where 50Mbit 
> equals HOURS of download wait for "average families" already today, 
> not seconds.
At what price, is that worth though, Casey?  Simply set the game to 
download overnight.  It's better than standing in line outside of a store!