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Originally Posted by weesteev
Newsgroups give me 6.6Mbps download on 50Mb.
The infrastructure is there if you have a need for it, it just depends what you use your connection for. I still find it amazing though that some people get faster broadband because they think it will make web pages open quicker...
The reason to introduce 100Mb is obvious, it will help push demand for applications that CAN utilise that kind of bandwidth. If we dont have it then we dont know what we can do with such a fast pipe into the home. The possibilities for an ISP with a connection speed like that are endless, with online TV being the biggest reason. |
I don't for a second believe that VM want people to give up their cable TV service and watch HD over the DOCSIS cable network, not paying VM for that privilege and tying up a ton of bandwidth on the CMTS. VM budget on the order of 100kbps per customer, more on the overlay network but certainly not enough for many people to be streaming simultaneously.
Online TV is the cable company's worst nightmare. Resource hungry, takes money in VoD and linear TV revenue away.
The reason to introduce 100Mbps is obvious. BT are doing 40Mbps and potentially 60Mbps with the rollout being more widespread and hitting over half of VM's cabled areas by Spring 2011. It's no coincidence VM suddenly took an interest in upstream speeds when BT began deploying 2 and 10Mbps
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Originally Posted by jb66
Most houses have multiple devices, phones laptops, consoles, pc's even fridges, I think that's where 50meg may be of use.
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Yup fridges are a real bandwidth monster
