I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the
graphics processing to the cloud means....what?
I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware.
It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a
data center where compute loads can be managed.
Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto
the network? What am I not seeing?
-Adam
On 3/27/2019 10:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system.
Holy bandwidth, Batman!
It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were
electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of
them. Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an
incandescent bulb or a 3 gallon toilet.
Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important
thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get
everyone faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the
equivalent of leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re
not home. If someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth,
he would be laughed at. So don’t use a game console, use one
somewhere else and stream 40-50 Mbps of video over the Internet to
your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to join the game, each with their
own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the people putting umpteen 1080p
cameras around their house and then sitting in their living room
watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News to every
screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to room …
which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each screen
gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same show.
I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth
conservation movement, we will just keep using more and more and
more. That convinces me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Sterling Jacobson
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now
Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system.
Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system.
Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native.
This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely
transmitting graphics to your local screen.
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