Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-07-08 Thread Mike Hammett
la" 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

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

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-30 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 30 June 2015 at 22:32, Jean-Francois Mezei 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

2015-06-30 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 94

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 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 up t

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-28 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
> > > On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, 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 > >

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 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 wrote: > > > > How does one fully utilize a

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 wrote: > > How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person > it is overkill. Similar to the co

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

2015-06-26 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™. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-toronto-worlds-fastest-interne

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 kind

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 busines

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 sub

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 so

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Owen DeLong
http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Randy Bush" > To: "Rafael Possamai" > Cc: "NANOG" > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:57:29 PM > Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland > >> Ho

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, beca

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

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , 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 necessarily increase your average > transfer rate, at least I don't th

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 sensi

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

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

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 > 10,00

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" To: "Rafael Possamai" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:57:29 PM Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadala

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 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

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 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 se

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 elast

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 Owen DeLong
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer 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 > that "single

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 a

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 downloa

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Paul Stewart
--- From: NANOG [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

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 th

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26 June 2015 at 11:04, 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 Only 1Gbps?! LOL, but US In

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 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 Landon Stewart
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:40 AM, TR Shaw 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 GPGMail

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 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 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 th

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 m

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 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/ > > If you read

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? Ju

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: June