Comments on: Open Thread: Now what would you do with bandwidth, if you had it http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam Burns http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171378 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:30:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171378 I just got 50Mb today from Verizon fast as hell.

]]> By: a2z http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171377 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:54:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171377 Extra bandwidth? Don’t believe it!

]]> By: Markus Goebel http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171376 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:02:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171376 Your question was “Now if you could get 24 megabits per second for $50 a month, what would you do with it?” Thats makes me smila because I nearly have that.

Since yesterday I enjoy 16 Mbps since at home and just love it.

More important than the bandwith was the price to me. I now have a plain DSL without any phone line. All my calls are VoIP and free, because I use the right services. For about 45 Dollars monthly I have all my communication needs covered. The first thing I noticed was that the Youtube films start almost immediately. Websites are also faster.

What I really like is the big upload pipe.

Let’s see if the new bandwidth changes my habits.

]]> By: Andrew Schmitt http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171375 Wed, 30 May 2007 20:53:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171375 HD, 3D, Fully Immersive Hardcore Porn :)

]]> By: Pan Admun Republic of Western Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171374 Wed, 30 May 2007 20:32:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171374 What I Will Do If I Had All Those Bandwidth…..

GigaOM is asking this question: Now if you could get 24 megabits per second for $50 a month, what would you do with it?

Games? I don’t do that.

Youtube? I don’t religiously tune in.

Skype…

]]> By: tomcoseven http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171373 Wed, 30 May 2007 14:35:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171373 I will second what Yuvamani says. Access link speeds are not a problem for over 90% of Internet users – network design is. The reason University networks perform so well has more to do with the I2 backbone than the attachment to your laptop (often a shared 802.11b where you are getting 3Mbps continuous throughput at best!).

For the first 15 years of the commercial Internet, the highest bandwidth demand was for downloading low-resolution porn. Low- to Mid-resolution pirated TV and movies have recently taken over for porn. So far, the broadband providers don’t make any extra money from delivering high-bandwidth apps, so why should they invest in improving the performance? When they start to make money, you will see investment.

]]> By: Moti http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171372 Wed, 30 May 2007 12:29:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171372 I will be able to use twitter fast enough :-))

]]> By: stewart "stewbagz" mercer http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171371 Wed, 30 May 2007 12:12:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171371 Doesn’t matter how big the pipe to the home is – it’ll be worthless if the upstream latency and packet-loss is crap (which, judging by the usual oversubscription models currently in use), which it always will be …

]]> By: Jarno http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171370 Wed, 30 May 2007 10:40:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171370 My take:

  • Remote backup of photos, files etc
  • Remote access to my content library (Music, videos)
  • Video Skype, teleprecense
  • Video on demand
  • (Some P2P)
]]> By: gags http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171369 Wed, 30 May 2007 07:55:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171369 diggspy.. listen to online FM radio around the wrld.. more muzik… more video’s..
well i think the mose imp thing that is going to cover most of the BW is P2P app’s becoz they let u xfer files.. app’s games.. movies.. muzik.. everything n dats wat we need to share all d time..
there could be more 3D things on the net .. as they give real lyf exprience ..

lotss video chat with high resolution cam’s

]]> By: decremental » Blog Archive » Got some spare bandwidth? http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171368 Wed, 30 May 2007 05:39:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171368 [...] it takes a loooooong time to back up 15 Gig of data over a cable-modem connection. That answers Om’s question« [...]

]]> By: Yuvamani http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171367 Wed, 30 May 2007 03:13:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171367 And for those who wanna surf really really fast with that extra bandwitdh I have some bad news for you….

The Bandwidth is not the only bottleneck. The latency and the rendering times of ajax heavy pages have a considrable impact. Meaning that you do not get that much of an impact on surfing with high bandwidth connections.

]]> By: Yuvamani http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171366 Wed, 30 May 2007 03:08:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171366 Okay Idont know why anybody did not point this out. But such bandwidth already exists in the form of connections in the large universities.

I just graduated from Gradschool in a top CS institution which was on the Internet2 backbone ( which had 0 impact for me) . Surprisingly I did not find too many things to do. To repeat the chicken and the egg argument. There are not too many applications which take advantage of the high bandwidth. Sure you can skype while downloading a movie … Download complete linux distros really really fast. But in general that extra bandwidth had 0 impact on me. The best legal video I could find (considering I graduated before Apple or Amazon or Joost launched their video wares) was youtube …

Ideally If I had that bandwidth I would start firing torrents … I could not do that in the university for obvious reasons.

]]> By: Steve Morsa http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171365 Wed, 30 May 2007 01:59:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171365 Shoot, Om…for me, forget about audio this and video that…I’d settle for truly “instant” web page loading as I go from site to site…you know; like all the providers have lied to us forever that their “fast speeds” would provide us.

I’d settle for them giving us what we’re already all paying for…

]]> By: Kim http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171364 Wed, 30 May 2007 01:33:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171364 With that much bandwidth i’d have about 15 Trueview Cameras in my home and office broadcasting high-def imagery so I can see what’s going on in every corner of the house.

p.s. I have 6 today, so were getting there!

]]> By: Asdf http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171363 Tue, 29 May 2007 23:55:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/05/29/what-to-do-with-broadband/#comment-171363 Fire up Azureus and download all the “content” that I would like to see ;-)

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