What would you do with a 100mbit/s or 1Gbit/s connection?

[Tarun036]

So basically piracy - as per my OP in this thread...



Although I am a little surprised that people are admitting that they'll just pirate more but aren't admitting to the amount of porn they'll be consuming - statistics show (not on my network, but on a couple of networks I've seen here in India) that some 65% of traffic is, shall we say, not exactly "moral"

But Shareing is Careing .ANd am not talking about porn at all

 

[Bobbyguitarist]

lucky u when i started using the internet hotmail just started n there was nothing there. For LAN parties (quake, doom) we had to carry our comp to a friends garage n play !!
heh. lucky you! it is just last year ending when i first played my CS online game

 

[Jaymin]

I m yet to play a game online though!

 

[pprabhu]

heh. i remember when i was on 64k


Good old late 90s when BSNL oops VSNL was giving 2400 bps shell accounts for Students for 500 bukks and TCP/IP connections costed 18k for 500 megs transfer
Enthu students wrote a shell sock program which spooled telnet shell account connection to IE browser 3.1, which let us see the colorful internet world.

 

[Jaymin]

Those days we used to have dial-up MTNL connection. And we had to set call-blocker on the telephone line to use internet! Otherwise suddenly someone called up & bam, blew away the connectivity! And it was like every second was accounted at that time......at the shoot of the gun u rush thru the mailbox, and disconnect as quickly as possible!

 

[pkmishra]

Absolutely, we had to wait 10-15 minutes before a page could open.Quite similar in many ways to GPRS.

 

[Jaymin]

The only difference in using WAP/GPRS & using the dial up is that when u use the former in ur cell, u have a mobile site which is loaded. So in effect mostly it turns out to be a bit faster than the dial up connection!

 

[pkmishra]

Yeah true and when connected via PC it reminds of the bad old days when Dial up connection was prevailing.

 

[mgcarley]

i don't need download speed of more than 30 mbps . i would probably upload 10 times what I'll download if i had 30+ mbps upload speed . its so much fun watching great movies/games with a large number of like-minded people . /tv/ and /v/ do this sometimes , i'd probably do it each day every day .

You'd be surprised. Despite what you may be thinking, it's pretty unlikely that you will upload 10x what you download - or even close to that - even if you have 30mbit/s upload speed. I'm speaking from experience both past and present, using both public and private trackers.

If you leave your PC permanently seeding, then you might have a fighting chance - if you're only downloading like 20GB a month - but seriously, I've uploaded only 17GB since the about this time on the 5th, so if we extrapolate that across 30 days that's ~170GB a month.

My average upstream utilization is well less than 1mbit/s, and when it is transferring, it normally sits between 1 & 2mbit/s (depending on how many transfers are going). On some rare occasions it does spike up to much higher speeds (10, 20, 30+) for very short periods of time when someone does download most of a file from me, but normally? Nah.

Granted, I probably don't download or share the same content as you lot do - but I suspect I'd have a similar experience even if I did. I pledge to seed a popular torrent on a private tracker for the sake of testing and get back with my results.

 

[MonsterBallsofDoom]

i am not talking about just seeding . i am talking about streaming everything i do on all my PCs . one will constantly stream movies , the other one will keep streaming whatever i am playing or some E-sport event . i might get in to casting DotA 2 games but net here is shit .at least the whole of 4chan will be happy if i get that connection .