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

[Andrew Oskam]

I also dislike that people either forget or assume that the Internet will be the same in 10 or 20 years.

Look how much it's changed in 15.

In my own opinion we are are just barely able to cope with the content we have now on the current model.

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Andrew Oskam

On 11/08/2010, at 11:46 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:

> 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
> 
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