[AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!" (was Re: Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010, Anand Kumria wrote:

> > to 3, that means in the slightly above average case there are 5 people
> > living in a residence. If each of those people wants to conduct a high
> > definition video conference at the same time, that is approximately 5 x
> > 8 Mbps symmetric bandwidth [0], or 40Mbps. That is of course peak
> > bandwidth, and worst case. 3 children is not that common, and I think 5
> > concurrent HD video conferences is even less likely to happen. However,
> > it is a feasible and possible use case.
> >
> > So what is the other 60Mbps for?
> >

Whatever the hell people dream up.

> I see that close to 30% utilisation across some (others have close to 10%)
> of my DSL links is just Internet background radiation.

> I assume things will be even less predictable when TV providers decide to
> 'pre-stream' shows to a bunch of households as well.

I dislike how people keep focusing on traditional media rather than wondering
what people could do with it.

(Besides porn, of course.)


Adrian