[GRLUG] FiOS -- NOT

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 17:00 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, John-Thomas Richards
> <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>         On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:58:56PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
>         > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> Good points.  Let me just point out that 
> Google thinks higher speed is necessary
> to expand its business - hence the 1 Gbps
> trial.  One can also think downloading movies
> and other things.

Of course Google says that; turning you and your devices into otherwise
helpless network end-points is their entire business model!

So Google take on things is meaningless.  A car salesman will always
tell you you need the 'better' car.

> In a way you seem to be on the side of
> the angels for now, because AT&T and
> Comcast show no signs of providing 
> higher speeds at prices of interest.  AT&T
> has capped it's monthly byte quota at 
> 80GB, and for Comcast it's now 250GB.
> AT&T has stated explicitly that it feels
> that it's current DSL speeds are high
> enough for anyone.  But as you suggest,
> there is the question of what Japan and
> other Asian countries do with up to 
> 60 Mbps.  I suspect they are finding new
> things, 

Or they built there infrastructure later, and in a more regulated
fashion, and with their typical 100-years mindset.   Also easier when
they have vastly less geography to encompass.


> Me?  I don't think we've reach the promised
> land yet regarding bandwidth.  Every dimension
> of PCs - memory, drives,  CPU "power", bandwidth
> for Internet access, USB, etc.,  keep increasing
> and the benefits always seem to be there.

i3, and even some Dual Core, systems are still selling very well.  Which
to me indicates a performance plateau beyond which people aren't will to
spend additional money.