Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-07-08 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 07:56:03AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: You don't think about the size of power lines coming into a house as they are overkill for just about anything you will do in the house. You don't think about the size of water pipes coming into a house as they are overkill for

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-07-08 Thread Mike Hammett
To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:46:52 AM Subject: Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 07:56:03AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: You don't think about the size of power lines coming into a house as they are overkill for just about anything

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-30 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 15-06-26 14:04, Hank Disuko wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html BTW, initally, Bell limits it to

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-30 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 30 June 2015 at 22:32, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: BTW, initally, Bell limits it to 940mbps. 940 Mbps is what speedtest.net will give you on a linespeed 1 Gbps connection. That sounds more like marketing people trying to understand overhead. Regards, Baldur

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-28 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-28 Thread Keith Stokes
Use wireless. There are reasonably priced point to point bridges available. -- Keith Stokes On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Peter Kristolaitis alte...@alter3d.ca wrote: On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:35:40 -0500, mikea said: And just possibly for more than seven computers on the continent. Note that there's scant evidence that Thomas Watson actually said it - and more evidence that others said something similar. Also, given that during that timeframe there was already

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-27 Thread Irwin, Kevin
Based on our 1Gbps residential customers usage, I believe you just sit at home and run speedtest all day. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill.

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-27 Thread Rafael Possamai
Good for you. On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Irwin, Kevin kevin.ir...@cinbell.com wrote: Based on our 1Gbps residential customers usage, I believe you just sit at home and run speedtest all day. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote:

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Eric Dugas
Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan. Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/ If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/ Eric -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko Sent:

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread TR Shaw
But what about us in Northwestern Ontario who can only get dialup, if that, from Bell? On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Eric Dugas edu...@zerofail.com wrote: Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan. Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at least I don't

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread jim deleskie
Its mostly marketing, a number of years ago I worked for a cable co, we knew if we increased BW X we'd see a Y speed increase in usage. We also has done the math on several future generations of upgrades, so we'd know if phone company increases to A we'd move to B. I know the guy that did the

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Rafael Possamai
How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to comment?

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:30:05PM -0400, A MEKKAOUI wrote: Your right. Actually, Bell knows that home does not need that much BW, Bell size their network for much less than that. However, from a marketing perspective, when Bell says to a client I am offering you 1G at $100 and competition are

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mike Hammett
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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 26/Jun/15 23:11, mikea wrote: Define need. On the average, I probably don't need more than 56 KBaud, integrated over all the years I've been linked to the 'Net from home. Would I be willing to put up with it? Hell, no! Would I be willing to put up with 10 Gig to the house for what I'm

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
On Jun 26, 2015, at 4:01 PM, 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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Parkinson's law of sorts? Use expanding to fill the bandwidth available One kid with a torrent downloading random stuff, streaming hd and music off the internet etc and a family of four can make decent inroads into gigabit or so I would have thought Don't even start counting say a gb here and

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 06/26/2015 12:03 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Personally I think it's pure marketing ... something I think we all know... I seen a few years back a FTTH development get completed using GPON - everything in the area got Full Gig Internet. Speedtest while I was onsite showed about 900Mb/s download

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread A MEKKAOUI
[mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai Sent: 26 juin 2015 14:39 To: Eric Dugas Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:06:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill.

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Randy Bush
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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Clayton Zekelman
We recently had to pull some year over year statistics on consumption for a regulatory filing. In 2009, our average customer used 11G of data. This year it is 85G. In 5 years it could be 400G or more. What's worse is, OTT video means that consumption is more than likely going to be at

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:01:38PM -0500, Mike Hammett 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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Like Peter Lothberg's mother's home :) --srs On 27-Jun-2015, at 12:22 am, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: And yes, fastest Internet in the world is pure BS, gigabit ethernet access to peoples homes have been around for years in other places

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26 June 2015 at 11:04, Hank Disuko gourmetci...@hotmail.com wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html Only

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Brandon Ross
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at least I don't

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Paul Stewart
[mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 2:39 PM To: Eric Dugas Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Karl Auer
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. This sentiment keeps popping up. It's a failure of vision. To suggest that single people or ordinary people or any other set of presumably

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. This sentiment keeps popping up. It's a failure of vision. To suggest

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, jim deleskie wrote: Its mostly marketing, a number of years ago I worked for a cable co, we knew if we increased BW X we'd see a Y speed increase in usage. We also has done the math on several future generations of upgrades, so we'd know if phone company increases to A

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Landon Stewart
On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:40 AM, TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: But what about us in Northwestern Ontario who can only get dialup, if that, from Bell? Seriously - write to your MP and MLA. Landon Stewart landonstew...@gmail.com signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Rafael Possamai
That comment was made from a customer perspective (myself) while I wonder if I ever would wanna pay for it, although it seems like it's pretty cheap already. As an entrepreneur, business, etc... then yes, I agree. Shoot for the stars and land on the moon. :) On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Karl

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Jared Mauch
The issue here is economics. 1G hardware is cheap, as in sub-$100 for a 1G CPE with SMF in one side and RJ45 out the other. Even if you decide to limit yourself at 100m or similar, if you build it at the optics side, it is more expensive than building at 1G. Because of this, 1G is the most

Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Rafael Possamai
Good points. But just like I won't take more than one shower at a time, I probably won't watch more than one Netflix stream session at a time (assuming that for myself only). Downloading a large ISO image in seconds is definitely a plus, although at the office I never reach a steady 120MB/s from

Re: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cajb2g-h2cccqud7_bhpoydo+beysyzpy+js2p+hj6ruk0qx...@mail.gmail.com , Rafael Possamai writes: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 26/Jun/15 23:56, Mark Andrews wrote: Unfortunately ISP's have made it about link speed rather than what it really is about because link speed was the limiting factor. When 1Gbps becomes mainstream to the home, I think it will stop being about link speed (well, for a while anyway, because

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Owen DeLong
: 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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Owen DeLong
10Gbps inside the home at an economical price for the phys means IP Multicast can finally be a viable alternative (replacement for) HDMI. No more will you connect one Blu-Ray player to One Amp to One TV. You’ll just connect them all to ethernet. Amps and TVs will have UIs which allow you to

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Joe Abley
On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html Bell Canada is in the

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Paul Stewart wrote: The interesting part was that the development consisted of 4400 active users the last time I heard but the bandwidth to upstream provider was still only a single GigE and was not hitting serious saturation levels most of the time. I'd say for any

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™.