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

[mgcarley]

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??

I don't disagree, but this seems to be a problem worldwide - mobile data is always (for some reason) relatively expensive. India has it *fairly* good, especially if you buy larger amounts (15 to 20GB on DoCoMo and Reliance 3G respectively) where it works out to just US$2-ish per GB.

Even in the US, I think nobody has "unlimited" data on mobile anymore - not even T-mobile... and I'm pretty sure it was T-mobile who was saying just a few months ago how great they are because they have unlimited plans

But my opinion on mobile data is that it should be used as a supplementary connection, not a primary connection, in which case 2GB is more than enough for most people, even if you are logging in on a VPN now and then, but part of the problem seems to be that the providers seem like they're selling 3G as a primary Internet connection! Wrong wrong wrong.

I much prefer the model of say, Telecom Italia, who sell their home broadband connection (wired) with an option to pay 10 euros a month more and get a 3G dongle which comes with like 10GB of data for use on the go. This is, in my opinion, how 3G should be marketed.

And then 3G on your actual phone is a different kettle of fish altogether - the product itself (even with it's inherent flaws and speed issues) is *basically* fine for the purpose of most smartphone applications.

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

My thoughts exactly.

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

Excellent.

He can use an OVH mirror.

Seriously? Using France to distribute (presumably somebody else's) copyrighted material? Probably not the best idea.

 

[kunalgautam]

Due to my location, this is not possible in coming 5 years. So have not thought what I will download or do

 

[mgcarley]

Due to my location, this is not possible in coming 5 years. So have not thought what I will download or do

What makes you say that? Pune is likely to be quite a stronghold for us due to our connections there.

 

[HerpDerp]

Forgot to mention, with 100+mbit/s connection, i will make india darker than any south asian and middle eastern country in ookla net index xDWell, imo all we can do with 100+mbit/s line is personal/private hosting and business stuff which actually requires speeds like these (I dunno about anything else yet, me 16), but we are not allowed to do that as we need a Business line for it..So i think conclusion will be that giving 100mbit/s connection as residential will ofcourse gonna be useless..but not for long..

 

[kunalgautam]

What makes you say that? Pune is likely to be quite a stronghold for us due to our connections there.
I'm living in outskirts. But still I hope I'll have Hayai Lite soon

 

[shirishag75]

Hi all,
Few thoughts. As far as 100mbit or whatever connection is concerned, the first thing probably would be to set my own website. For fun, for education rather than anything commercial. Once you learn the internals and understand a bit more then perhaps get on that bandwagon. Probably buy one of the new fangled low-power CPU's and have debian with server and probably host my wordpress a/c for one. A flickr kinda service for self and basically tinker around. There are lots of things which I have not tried due to lack of bandwidth primarily. Also would invest in some equipment which doesn't make sense now with the limited bandwidth I have.

As far as mobile and data are concerned, something interesting I saw few days ago. Although its still in the air whether the guys will go for it or not but Limesco | Get involved. has got some interesting ideas worth checking out.

I wish a similar initiative would happen here.

 

[amit_dp]

no one talking about e-learning here .. with this sort of speeds to home users/ educational institutions ... I would create a service for e-learning...Imagine lectures delivered right to your home .. live high quality / 3D video presentations school at home for disabled students watch old classroom sessions from the cloud .. many more possibilities ...

 

[Sushubh]

just a couple of days ago we were discussing Khan Academy here on the forum

 

[shirishag75]

The next option would be a private key, but most people don't know how to handle that kind of thing. Or to write to every single forum owner in the world and ask them to reserve my username (like admin, root etc is usually reserved), but that's both impractical and impossible

The problem with a PGP thing are quite a few :-

a. I become slave to my lappy,desktop whatever whenever I generate a key pair as from what I know it takes part of my ethernet port/card local IP Address in order to make that random but unique key pair.

b. The key length to be maintained has to be constantly increased each year or every few years in order to avoid brute-force attacks.

c. Just having a key is not enough unless you have not got it signed. While in Europe and States there are ample key-signing parties, here I know of just a couple which happened and they happened at very bad times without making a proper ground for it.

d. PGP is good is when you want to do some secure communications. Unfortunately, most of the people in the country (including myself) don't want to pay the cost (either technically or/and commercially) of doing encrypted messaging/e-mail whatever.

e. Infact, I don't think people even take a look at the headers of an e-mail message (which I have done sometimes due to certain situations) so talking of PGP kinda scenario is far out.

Now besides all the above, the security vendors have been quick to market Digital Certificates as an alternative solution (as they can make good money on it) and till date it has succeeded.

Quite a bit of things here are lack of education, laziness and conformance to habits. Most of people are neither aware nor they care about privacy that much. See the recent Facebook-Google smack which happened few months ago (about contacts sharing).

I do know of couple of security vendors who do their annual gig for the digital security community in India and they make a lot of money. The corporate people who visit these sessions are more interested in the place where its held (as in Goa or most of the tourist/scenic places) and they always are filled to the capaciy.

 

[dovahkiin]

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


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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.





was taking about a business line only

10 gig to net is already been here for 2 years for so, belive it or not i had this little sucker for 6 months [ minimum contract ] and it cost me something like 6k GBP, was fun but has little real world application to it apart from the fact i hosted some huge sites on it, max speeds i pushed was on some private ftps which were on huge lans, i saw max of 4 gig per sec on a 500 gig file, wtf the i had the feeling if i got bored i could easily take down the entire network of some small country vey wrong tool in wrong hands

HG XXL 2011 - OVH

that is a 10gig dedicated port :shock:

time is not far when 10 gig home lines would be here , maybe in 3 or 4 yrs max.