Is it? What’s the bandwidth of a good quality 4K stream? What about 4 of them + various additional interactive technologies, software downloads, media downloads, etc.?
Looking at the graphs, my household (which isn’t average by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a household) doesn’t need a gig very often, but there are the occasional multiple hours where my Gig downstream does flatline at about 950Mbps. So I’d say that I make sufficiently frequent use of the gig that is available as to render it unlikely I would be satisfied with less bandwidth. Owen > On May 23, 2022, at 12:29 , David Bass <davidbass...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a household > to need a gig? That is just ridiculous. > > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com > <mailto:m...@mtcc.com>> wrote: > > On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote: > > > > > >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com > >> <mailto:m...@mtcc.com>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: > >>> The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household > >>> will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig > >>> or more? > >> > >> Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of > >> bandwidth? > >> > >> Mike > > Thats almost the same question we were asked at BT a dozen years ago when > > moving from DSL -> FTTC when someone said, “but surely DSL is sufficient > > because its so much faster than dial.” > > The two of us survive just fine with 25Mbs even when we have a house > full of friends. I mean it would be nice to have 100Mbs so that it's > never a problem but the reality is that it just hasn't been a problem in > practice. I mean how many 4k streams are running at the same time in the > average household? What else besides game downloads are sucking up that > much bandwidth all of the time? > > Mike > > > > > > —Tom > > > > > >>> > >>> On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > >>>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 > >>>> > >>>> <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0> > >>>> > >>>> The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek > >>>> comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support to > >>>> certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more > >>>> locations at higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the > >>>> Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the goal of > >>>> achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband service > >>>> throughout the rural areas served by rural carriers currently receiving > >>>> A-CAM support. > >>>>
