Haha, 5G is wireless, to a couple hundred feet where it again meets/needs fiber.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:19 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now But didn't you hear? 5G is a replacement for hard wired Internet connections. On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> 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<mailto: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<mailto: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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