It’s not just about the transfer rate, though. As has been noted, response times at peak congestion are definitely faster if you have more bandwidth.
So if you’ve got 3 kids all wanting to stream different HD5k content, 50Mbits is going to get interesting. 100Mbps will probably handle it with enough of a jitter buffer. 10G you can probably play instant on and let the jitter buffer build while playing the first few seconds. There are a number of other tactics that can improve user experience with more bandwidth than is needed for the long-term average. Average transfer rate is a silly way to measure anticipated user experience, as has been pointed out by others. Owen > On Jun 26, 2015, at 14:01 , Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why > would one NOW need more than X. Big difference. Simple fact that there is no > residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less 10,000 > megabit. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Randy Bush" <ra...@psg.com> > To: "Rafael Possamai" <raf...@gav.ufsc.br> > Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:57:29 PM > Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland > >> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? > > we once asked how a home user would use 56kb, how anyone needed more > than 640k in a pee cee, how we would need more than 32 bits in an > address. > > the only thing not rising is water levels. except the ocean, that is. > > randy >
