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

[mgcarley]

Well who's giving 100 mbps connection?

I'm not sure that this is really the point. There are some providers who can give this already (although the issue of the price for such speeds is still a problem), some whose plans revolve around such speeds (ahem), and others who will surely follow - eventually.

If you had a 100mbit/s connection available at a reasonable price (flat-rate/unlimited or not), what do you think you would/could do with it apart from downloading huge amounts of porn, movies and warez?

Maybe some detail on how you might use it under different circumstances, eg, how differently would you use it if it were flat-rate as opposed to how you would use it if you were paying by the GB (mind you, the cost per GB is pretty reasonable if I say so myself)?

 

[dovahkiin]

Although I think the "killer app" for 100mbit/s broadband is currently the ability to multitask or have multiple users simultaneously accessing it (this will change in a few years, I'm sure), personally, I'm a little bit disappointed that more people aren't talking about expanding their horizons with a bit of education or maybe create their own content (independent music & videos) or start a business (all hail the bedroom-based startup) - or better still, do something to help others in some way (and I don't mean downloading movies for them!) or even combining all of the above.





gimme 5 tb to a line and i will set up 2 or 3 intel xeons in basement split them up in vps and start selling them , some guys in Korea are doing pretty good in that

you may want think of pricing commercial lines something like this

Net to Hayai - unlimited

Hayai to Hayai - free [ which it is already ]

Hayai to net - 5 to 7 tb.

at good pricing you could see a lot of basement start ups.

 

[mgcarley]

Let me reiterate the question, both in the post immediately preceeding yours, as well as the original post in this thread:

What do you think you would/could do with it apart from downloading huge amounts of porn, movies and warez?

 

[Leopold]

Okies.1. Video conference...The basic reason of me taking the BSNL 2 mbps connection.2. Lessen my electricity bill...My PC is on from past week without a reboot.3. Decrease my patience...that's bad4. Of course downloading...I like to watch cartoons.Anyways, I think 100 mbps will be a bad thing for people, they will have no control over what they do. I had a 256 kbps connection (UL 750) last year, when BSNL upgraded to 512 kbps. I thought Wow, now I'll have to wait less.But still I'm still the same our hunger never ends.When a guy has a slow speed connection he goes for the lowest file size, now I go for the highest, sometimes 20 GB for one movie. And while downloading 100 mbps can never be attained...to get a 12 mBps speed you have to be connected in a huge swarm.(Which is not available in most cases).

 

[popcorn]

mtnl is talking about 10gbps connections using fiber !!

 

[mgcarley]

gimme 5 tb to a line and i will set up 2 or 3 intel xeons in basement split them up in vps and start selling them , some guys in Korea are doing pretty good in that

you may want think of pricing commercial lines something like this

Net to Hayai - unlimited

Hayai to Hayai - free [ which it is already ]

Hayai to net - 5 to 7 tb.

at good pricing you could see a lot of basement start ups.

We wouldn't allow this on a residential connection. But if you purchased a suitable business connection, it would be less of a problem.

However that has got me thinking: for startups who utilize our service (as in, people who start businesses which have some promise, it doesn't really matter the whether it's a residential or business connection because of how we already differentiate the various levels of service) there could/should at least be the possibility of free website hosting/email and such.

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Okies.

1. Video conference...The basic reason of me taking the BSNL 2 mbps connection.
2. Lessen my electricity bill...My PC is on from past week without a reboot.
3. Decrease my patience...that's bad
4. Of course downloading...I like to watch cartoons.


1. Good
2. This is one of our selling points
3. Well... insert joke about Airtel's "impatience" plans here
4. Fair enough - I think we can group downloading (legal or not) and streaming of movies/tv shows/etc in to one.

Anyways, I think 100 mbps will be a bad thing for people, they will have no control over what they do. I had a 256 kbps connection (UL 750) last year, when BSNL upgraded to 512 kbps. I thought Wow, now I'll have to wait less.But still I'm still the same our hunger never ends.
When a guy has a slow speed connection he goes for the lowest file size, now I go for the highest, sometimes 20 GB for one movie.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing - even if you download the 20GB version, it will still be over in a matter of minutes at that speed, so if you have the equipment to support it then you get to see and hear awesome quality. On the other hand, if you don't have the high-definition equipment, there's not much point in downloading those uber high definition rips.

And while downloading 100 mbps can never be attained...to get a 12 mBps speed you have to be connected in a huge swarm.(Which is not available in most cases).

I find most torrents top out at about 30-40mbit/s... and then all of a sudden they're finished, although you might get ever-increasing speeds on larger torrents.

mtnl is talking about 10gbps connections using fiber !!

I think that was somebody's typo which somehow caught on - 10Gbit/s PON equipment for home and small business applications is barely on the market (the enterprise and carrier-level stuff has been around for ages, but, well, that's not really PON, that's 10Gbit/s over Ethernet which is an entirely different topology).

Even then, this 10Gbit/s PON equipment just 10Gbit/s to the device - it doesn't come with 10Gbit/s ethernet ports or anything.

daily upload videos in HD format, also would seed full.

Assuming of course you're the copyright owner, sure

 

[zerosleeping]

Host training webinars for my company. If upload speeds are good and the connection uptime is also stable, I could have a download server for streaming the webinars running in the office itself. The main site would ofcourse be hosted on a professional hosting company server.Would Hayai consider providing cheaper webhosting (shared or dedicated) for small businesses? Hostgator has opened an office in India recently, perhaps Hayai could offer more for less?

 

[pudu123]

Mobile devices as they are are largely fine - 7mbit/s should be roughly sufficient for your average cloud service. But the networks almost never deliver that.


When you charge exorbitant amounts for the so-called 7 mbit/s speed, it is useless and pointless.

Right now I have to pay around 800 rupees per month for 2 GB of data per month on 3G speeds. What am I going do with 2 GB data cap in a month? What is the point in having 7 MBit/s speeds??

When ISPs talk about giving high bandwidth, they should also provide realistic FUPs. Otherwise high speeds mean cr@p to me.

 

[mgcarley]

Host training webinars for my company.

If upload speeds are good and the connection uptime is also stable, I could have a download server for streaming the webinars running in the office itself. The main site would ofcourse be hosted on a professional hosting company server.

Would Hayai consider providing cheaper webhosting (shared or dedicated) for small businesses? Hostgator has opened an office in India recently, perhaps Hayai could offer more for less?

On a business connection this would probably be OK. As for providing webhosting, we would probably do all of our hosting arrangements through E2ENetworks, who have data centre space in several cities around India. Better that we concentrate on providing an excellent broadband service rather than trying to do everything, doing it in a mediocre fashion and not pleasing any of our customers.

 

[Leopold]

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing - even if you download the 20GB version, it will still be over in a matter of minutes at that speed, so if you have the equipment to support it then you get to see and hear awesome quality. On the other hand, if you don't have the high-definition equipment, there's not much point in downloading those uber high definition rips.

Yup, it would be fantastic and I'll be in dream world.


Assuming of course you're the copyright owner, sure

He can use an OVH mirror.