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 math for us then, he still sits in that job so I assume he still does similar I suspect any cable so worth their salt does the same. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael@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 average transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas@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/
If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
Eric
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM To: NANOG Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
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...