Comments on: Need For Speed… How Real? http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:47:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MByll http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-614419 MByll Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:39:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-614419 <p>Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either.</p> <p>Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. See here for that:</p> <p>http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=41095&cpage=212#feedbackAnchor</p> <p>Also, others from educational institutions where actual professional journalism & writing are taught, are questioning Jeremy Reimer's validity & credibility as a writer, period, here:</p> <p>http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/node/933</p> <p>All Reimer does is spit back what others wrote already anyhow. He is an ambulance chaser at best.</p> Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either.

Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. See here for that:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=41095&cpage=212#feedbackAnchor

Also, others from educational institutions where actual professional journalism & writing are taught, are questioning Jeremy Reimer’s validity & credibility as a writer, period, here:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/node/933

All Reimer does is spit back what others wrote already anyhow. He is an ambulance chaser at best.

]]> By: motionocom http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-328805 motionocom Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:26:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-328805 <p>Uploading videos to motiono is pretty quick also, infact compared to other video sharing sites, it takes 1/10th of the time to upload a video and share it,</p> Uploading videos to motiono is pretty quick also, infact compared to other video sharing sites, it takes 1/10th of the time to upload a video and share it,

]]> By: seamonkeyrodeo » Lunchtime Musings: too much bandwidth, or too little imagination? http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-120162 seamonkeyrodeo » Lunchtime Musings: too much bandwidth, or too little imagination? Tue, 29 May 2007 17:04:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-120162 <p>[...] GigaOM, December 20, 2005 “Can a consumer tell any difference between 1.5 megabit per second and four megabit per second service?” asks Bruce Leichtman, president of Leichtman Research Group, Inc. “The answer is no. [...]</p> [...] GigaOM, December 20, 2005 “Can a consumer tell any difference between 1.5 megabit per second and four megabit per second service?” asks Bruce Leichtman, president of Leichtman Research Group, Inc. “The answer is no. [...]

]]> By: Nicole http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38698 Nicole Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:20:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38698 <p>I\'m love this great website. Many thanks guye</p> I\’m love this great website. Many thanks guye

]]> By: speednut http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38696 speednut Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:26:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38696 <p>Faster broadband access for consumers is inevitable, and needed, but all the broadband in the world won't dramatically increase the user's quality of service unless they are able to leverage their pipe to its fullest capabilities - thus starving them for more and more. What's exciting about a 30Mbps or 100Mbps connection to the home if you're video download maxes out at 10Mbps?</p> <p>RocketStream is designed to provide acceleration for file transfers over high-speed links, allowing people to benefit from this new tier of broadband. http://www.rocketstream.com</p> Faster broadband access for consumers is inevitable, and needed, but all the broadband in the world won’t dramatically increase the user’s quality of service unless they are able to leverage their pipe to its fullest capabilities – thus starving them for more and more. What’s exciting about a 30Mbps or 100Mbps connection to the home if you’re video download maxes out at 10Mbps?

RocketStream is designed to provide acceleration for file transfers over high-speed links, allowing people to benefit from this new tier of broadband. http://www.rocketstream.com

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38694 Alex Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:23:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38694 <p>Hi! cool site. %</p> Hi! cool site. %

]]> By: Martin Byll http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38693 Martin Byll Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:21:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38693 <p>Jeremy Reimer was exposed as a fraud faking it as some sort of computer expert in the field of computer science here at this url:</p> <p>http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=41095&cpage=187</p> <p>An interesting read where Reimer gets his behind handed to him, and started up trouble with his arstechnica buddies, and 1 single person ran the lot of them off.</p> <p>I would suggest you find someone else to cite as an authority in this field. Somebody with eductional credentials in the field of computers and professional experience.</p> <p>Jeremy Reimer clearly has neither.</p> Jeremy Reimer was exposed as a fraud faking it as some sort of computer expert in the field of computer science here at this url:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=41095&cpage=187

An interesting read where Reimer gets his behind handed to him, and started up trouble with his arstechnica buddies, and 1 single person ran the lot of them off.

I would suggest you find someone else to cite as an authority in this field. Somebody with eductional credentials in the field of computers and professional experience.

Jeremy Reimer clearly has neither.

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]]> By: steve.zissou http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38689 steve.zissou Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:36:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38689 <p>I think the real issue is, "Are consumers being sold a bill of goods?" not "will we one day need more speed?" Of course we will. But right now, how many home users with 1-3 machines ever go above 2mbps d/l? or 250 kbps u/l? i would say virtually none. How many servers will feed information faster than a t-1 can handle? I don't know of any accessable to the public.</p> <p>So why in god's green earth are people paying for 10 mbps? I guess its the same reason I see jackasses driving around in 100 000 dollar sports cars in the city. And if people knew how little of the max speed they actually use…</p> I think the real issue is, “Are consumers being sold a bill of goods?” not “will we one day need more speed?” Of course we will. But right now, how many home users with 1-3 machines ever go above 2mbps d/l? or 250 kbps u/l? i would say virtually none. How many servers will feed information faster than a t-1 can handle? I don’t know of any accessable to the public.

So why in god’s green earth are people paying for 10 mbps? I guess its the same reason I see jackasses driving around in 100 000 dollar sports cars in the city. And if people knew how little of the max speed they actually use…

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38687 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:55:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38687 <p>what</p> what

]]> By: Telefanatic http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38686 Telefanatic Sun, 28 May 2006 14:54:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38686 <p>I think that in general we are in need of all rou8nd faster speeds, faster uploads are important as previously mentioned and of course as we move into the home cinema live stream age we will un-doubtedly need faster download speeds. I currently have a connection speed of 50Mbps and an upload rate of about 5Mbps althought this is great for fast file transfer with other users of fast connections it makes no differene when streaming or uploadingto a slow intake server. As a tele communications and networking computer engineer and consultant i know what the technology is all about and trust me when i say that we already have capabilities for much fatser connections, we do, its just chosen to not be used as the telecom companies realise its not econimcaly sustanable at the moment when the demand is low. People have got to buy the faster speeds in order for any new development!. One thing we all-ways need to remember is that we need not worry about what speed we have but more like what speed the server were communicating with is running at!</p> I think that in general we are in need of all rou8nd faster speeds, faster uploads are important as previously mentioned and of course as we move into the home cinema live stream age we will un-doubtedly need faster download speeds. I currently have a connection speed of 50Mbps and an upload rate of about 5Mbps althought this is great for fast file transfer with other users of fast connections it makes no differene when streaming or uploadingto a slow intake server. As a tele communications and networking computer engineer and consultant i know what the technology is all about and trust me when i say that we already have capabilities for much fatser connections, we do, its just chosen to not be used as the telecom companies realise its not econimcaly sustanable at the moment when the demand is low. People have got to buy the faster speeds in order for any new development!. One thing we all-ways need to remember is that we need not worry about what speed we have but more like what speed the server were communicating with is running at!

]]> By: Abhishek http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38685 Abhishek Tue, 09 May 2006 14:33:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38685 <p>I don't think that much speed is needed by an "average" user.</p> I don’t think that much speed is needed by an “average” user.

]]> By: Ami Schreiber http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38684 Ami Schreiber Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:20:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38684 <p>I have 1 word for everyone: UPSTREAM It's sooooo annoying that only Verizon's FIOS service offers decent upload speeds (2mbps). </p> <p>For those of you who think only techies require faster upload, think again.</p> <p>Here are a few MAJOR users:</p> <ol> <li>Email file attachments.</li> <li>Video conferencing (both for business and personal use) Now that download speeds are fast enough the bottleneck (which no one seems to understand) is still the upload speed. It doesn't matter how fast of a computer or how fast of an internet connection "grandma" has if you can only SEND video at a max speed of 768kbps! -Here that comcast?</li> <li>Remote connectivity. Yes, this has become a VERY populare way to work with more and more people telecommuting. If your internet connection at home can only send data at a max of 768kbps then it still won't feel right unless you do things like scale down the colors. </li> <li>Uploading images, movies, music (any multimedia for that matter) all requires faster upload speeds.</li> </ol> <p>The list goes on and on. But the next time you have a video conference with someone, don't assume that just because the video of yourself looks great to you that the person on the other end feels the same way. If they do, then they haven't seen the alternative or it's being buffered and is not in realtime which would explain the delay in conversation. Try testing out video conferencing while only using the video and calling someone from a regular phone and asking them to tell you the exact moment you perform an action on the screen. I bet you that their response will come a few minutes AFTER you perform the action which is why people involved in video conferencing conversations often talk while the other person is talking because the other person's speech data has not been transmitted yet. So you end up thinking they have finished speaking or not yet started, therefore you start to talk and they are thinking the same thing and you end up with a "quirky" conversation.</p> <p>Just my 2 cents. I would rather have 4mbps instead of 8, but have my upload speed go from 768kbps to 2mbps.</p> I have 1 word for everyone: UPSTREAM It’s sooooo annoying that only Verizon’s FIOS service offers decent upload speeds (2mbps).

For those of you who think only techies require faster upload, think again.

Here are a few MAJOR users:

  1. Email file attachments.
  2. Video conferencing (both for business and personal use) Now that download speeds are fast enough the bottleneck (which no one seems to understand) is still the upload speed. It doesn’t matter how fast of a computer or how fast of an internet connection “grandma” has if you can only SEND video at a max speed of 768kbps! -Here that comcast?
  3. Remote connectivity. Yes, this has become a VERY populare way to work with more and more people telecommuting. If your internet connection at home can only send data at a max of 768kbps then it still won’t feel right unless you do things like scale down the colors.
  4. Uploading images, movies, music (any multimedia for that matter) all requires faster upload speeds.

The list goes on and on. But the next time you have a video conference with someone, don’t assume that just because the video of yourself looks great to you that the person on the other end feels the same way. If they do, then they haven’t seen the alternative or it’s being buffered and is not in realtime which would explain the delay in conversation. Try testing out video conferencing while only using the video and calling someone from a regular phone and asking them to tell you the exact moment you perform an action on the screen. I bet you that their response will come a few minutes AFTER you perform the action which is why people involved in video conferencing conversations often talk while the other person is talking because the other person’s speech data has not been transmitted yet. So you end up thinking they have finished speaking or not yet started, therefore you start to talk and they are thinking the same thing and you end up with a “quirky” conversation.

Just my 2 cents. I would rather have 4mbps instead of 8, but have my upload speed go from 768kbps to 2mbps.

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38683 Anonymous Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:19:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38683 <p>eu queria que jogo pegasse no windows 2000</p> eu queria que jogo pegasse no windows 2000

]]> By: Jackalope http://gigaom.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38682 Jackalope Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:30:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/need-for-speed/#comment-38682 <p>The snag for me is poor upload speeds. I want a minimum of of 1Mbps. And Time Warner's description of 5Mbps as "blazing" is a joke. Some Europeans are getting speeds in the 10's and 20's and they are paying about $10 a month for their services.</p> The snag for me is poor upload speeds. I want a minimum of of 1Mbps. And Time Warner’s description of 5Mbps as “blazing” is a joke. Some Europeans are getting speeds in the 10’s and 20’s and they are paying about $10 a month for their services.

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