Forgot to include the 20/20 for $40/month connection which is good for "HD Video Conferences" or the 70/70 for $70. Nothing special about the 70Mb package, I guess they don't quite recommend it for Web hosting, like they do the 100Mb package.
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Ha! My ISP clearly advertises that I have a dedicated connection where "speeds never go down or change". They even recommend that I can Web Host with my 100/100 connection at home. Should I take them up on that?
This is why we need more competition in the USA. I'm lucky here in the midwest in a rural area where Charter doesn't care.
Connections typically don't work well past 80% utilization for one reason or another, so you need a 25% buffer, so 12.5Mb for a sustained 10Mb/s. 5Mb/s average is what's required, you still need to wait for buffering. At this point, your Internet connection is at 100% usage with only two video streams, what about other stuff that's going on? People do like to multi-task. I can't remember the last time I sat and just watched a movie. I usually just stream them in the background and watch them on another monitor between.
The main issue I have with low bandwidth is it has a mental cost that you have to think about what's going on, all the time. What if water was so scare that I had to worry if I'll have enough to drink, if I wash my hands? I hate worrying. Internet is a critical communication tool that is nearly a requirement for anyone working in modern society. It's nearly important as electricity. Whole businesses can shutdown without it, people's ability to work can come to a halt. The internet should work like a light switch, it should just work and I shouldn't have to micromanage who is using it, when they're using it, or how much they're using it. It's not just a personal cost, it's a huge social opportunity cost.
Fiber 10Gb to the home is rolling out in the USA, but $400/month for now. NG2-PON is 10Gb. Each port is 320Gb, WDM'd in 32 lambdas of 10Gb each for 32 customers. Google Fiber is NG-PON, which is 40Gb WDM'd into 32 lambdas of 1.25Gb each.
They need to define it as what will be useful for the next 5 years. Changing the definition doesn't happen every year. With more an more remote services, even healthcare, is starting to happen over the Internet, what kind of connection does one need?
My insurance just started to offer free 24/7 doctor consultations over video. This way you can skirt paying a co-pay for an office visit if all you want is a doctor to look at a mole to tell you if you should go in to get it further looked at. But guess what, you need to be able to stream 720p+ if you want that remote doctor to be able to clearly see your issue. You can still talk to the doctor for free, but describing the issue is not the same as the doctor getting a high def video.
QoS in IPv6 is not meant to be used on the backbone, it is meant to be used on an internal network and gets stripped at network borders. The values in the QoS field has no established convention. Strict QoS is bad. Traffic shaping is much better. Categorize your traffic, then place each category in their own queue. Set how much bandwidth each queue has.
Congestion itself really isn't that bad. The problem is congestion and buffer bloat go hand-in-hand most of the time. Codel is a great active queue management that helps fight buffer bloat by having a target latency and punishes heavy users by statistically dropping their packets more often than others, causing heavy data streams to back off. It does so in a way that keeps TCP streams from synchronizing and allows very good link utilization.
Getting codel deployed into more network queues is the first step to making the Internet more responsive. The next step is to figure out a better way for TCP to handle congestion control.
"guaranteed service with a 5 sigma" and "getting service with a 5 sigma" are two different things. Bad things eventually happen, but it shouldn't happen that often. "lose connection from time to time" should be something like no more than 3 unscheduled events per year.
In the past 8 years of having broadband and living outside of my parents house, I've had maybe 6 times where the Internet went down while I was using it. Since getting fiber several years ago, I've had the Internet go down twice, one was when they were completely rearchitecting their internet network with a new core router, and something went wrong and their 4am change over turned into 6am. The other time was when their legacy DSL network took a direct lightning strike, which required them to restart their DHCP servers, causing all established IP addresses to become invalid.
A car analogy is the average user should not have to worry about their brand new car not working, on average. We need lemon laws. A robust communications network is vital for any society or economy to thrive.
They don't stream faster than 5Mb/s, but they sure as hell will buffer data at 1Gb/s. It doesn't take long to get a 10-30sec buffer at 1Gb/s when the underlying stream is only encoded at 5Mb/s.
All I know is people complain about FiOS TV services pixelating when using high bandwidth Internet apps. I don't have FiOS, I have an actual dedicated fiber connection where the ISP does not oversubscribe and make sure there are no choke points, unlike Verizon and their "I'm getting 60KB/s to AWS, but when I use a VPN, I get 4.5MB/s". Verizon is crap, but some people get lucky.
The mean usage is quite low. Look at Netflix, 10Tb/s of peak bandwidth and 50mil customers. That's an average of 200kb/s per customer, yet their average streamer consumes about 3Mb/s. This means that only 1 in 15 Netflix customers are using Netflix at any given time during the busy hours. Netflix is 1/3 of all bandwidth being used of the entire USA internet. With about 100mil households in the USA with an Internet connection, and peak USA bandwidth of about 30Tb/s, that means the average house uses about 300Kb/s or (1/3)Mb/s. The average USA Internet connection is about 10Mb/s. That means, on average, each customer only uses about 3% of their connection speed.
On average, going from 10Mb/s to 1Gb/s increase the average usage by about 10%. This means that those "heavy" users, who can saturate their 1gb/s connection 24/7, make almost no difference on the whole.
If you like cows, beer, -40f winters, and good Internet, this is the place for you. If you want a "city" life of any kind, this is not the place for you.
You're getting 56/67 on your 50/50 because FiOS TV services share bandwidth with your Internet. For whatever reason, FiOS can't break these services over separate VLANs or can't keep bandwidth separate between VLANS, whatever they're doing. You can even find people, as of 2015, having issues when hammering their Internet, their DVR or TV functions start having pixelation issues. My ISP gives me 50/50, and I get exactly 50/50, well, something like 49.8 in practice. IPTV comes over a separate VLAN, which has separate bandwidth allocations.
Yay, Verizon. I still read about issues with Verizon peering and random problems with AWS, Akamai, Netflix, YouTube, and others. You might have gotten lucky, but many around the nation have issues trying to get 1Mb/s from their 50Mb connection. At least the speed test is good.
For every person using 1Gb/s, there will be 1,000 other people using 0Mb/s. It averages out. Kind of like insurance. For every person that needs $10mil in special treatment, there's 100,000 other people just getting their yearly check-up for $200.
Which is funny, because Verizon's own CEO said that FiOS increased revenue as people were more likely to purchase more services with FiOS, plus support costs are cheaper, plus lower long-term upgrade costs.
I can get a 70/70(dedicated) for $70, about $73 once you include tax, and you bill won't change. It was $70 when it was a 1.5Mb DSL line back in 2003, it was $70 when it was 30Mb four years ago when they installed fiber, and it's still $70 today. All upgrades are 100% free in every way.
The simplest calculation tends to be the most correct. We almost always start out with something complex, and as we find out more information, we can simplify the equation. The more complex something is, the more likely it is to be "brittle".
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Kind of like saying North Korean may be a bad place to live, but at least it's not driven by money, like the USA.
Forgot to include the 20/20 for $40/month connection which is good for "HD Video Conferences" or the 70/70 for $70. Nothing special about the 70Mb package, I guess they don't quite recommend it for Web hosting, like they do the 100Mb package.
It’s dedicated symmetrical so speeds never go down or change
Choose a High Speed Internet product to learn more!
100Mbps - $90/month
Recommended for Web Hosting, Heavy online gaming, and HD streaming (YouTube and Netflix)
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Recommended for Web Hosting, Heavy online gaming, HD streaming (YouTube and Netflix), and Cloud computing
500Mbps - $500/month
Recommended for Web Hosting, eCommerce, Webinar hosting, Heavy online gaming, HD streaming (YouTube and Netflix), and Cloud computing
Ha! My ISP clearly advertises that I have a dedicated connection where "speeds never go down or change". They even recommend that I can Web Host with my 100/100 connection at home. Should I take them up on that?
This is why we need more competition in the USA. I'm lucky here in the midwest in a rural area where Charter doesn't care.
Laws, regulations, and policies are written around "broadband".
Yes, it's like the Raspberry Pi of bandwidth.
Connections typically don't work well past 80% utilization for one reason or another, so you need a 25% buffer, so 12.5Mb for a sustained 10Mb/s. 5Mb/s average is what's required, you still need to wait for buffering. At this point, your Internet connection is at 100% usage with only two video streams, what about other stuff that's going on? People do like to multi-task. I can't remember the last time I sat and just watched a movie. I usually just stream them in the background and watch them on another monitor between.
The main issue I have with low bandwidth is it has a mental cost that you have to think about what's going on, all the time. What if water was so scare that I had to worry if I'll have enough to drink, if I wash my hands? I hate worrying. Internet is a critical communication tool that is nearly a requirement for anyone working in modern society. It's nearly important as electricity. Whole businesses can shutdown without it, people's ability to work can come to a halt. The internet should work like a light switch, it should just work and I shouldn't have to micromanage who is using it, when they're using it, or how much they're using it. It's not just a personal cost, it's a huge social opportunity cost.
Don't like living in North Korea, then leave. It's so simple! Who would have thought?!
What's it like living in Africa? Getting by with little to no Internet, they're doing just fine, by some definition of "fine".
Says the person with no children.
Fiber 10Gb to the home is rolling out in the USA, but $400/month for now. NG2-PON is 10Gb. Each port is 320Gb, WDM'd in 32 lambdas of 10Gb each for 32 customers. Google Fiber is NG-PON, which is 40Gb WDM'd into 32 lambdas of 1.25Gb each.
They need to define it as what will be useful for the next 5 years. Changing the definition doesn't happen every year. With more an more remote services, even healthcare, is starting to happen over the Internet, what kind of connection does one need?
My insurance just started to offer free 24/7 doctor consultations over video. This way you can skirt paying a co-pay for an office visit if all you want is a doctor to look at a mole to tell you if you should go in to get it further looked at. But guess what, you need to be able to stream 720p+ if you want that remote doctor to be able to clearly see your issue. You can still talk to the doctor for free, but describing the issue is not the same as the doctor getting a high def video.
QoS in IPv6 is not meant to be used on the backbone, it is meant to be used on an internal network and gets stripped at network borders. The values in the QoS field has no established convention. Strict QoS is bad. Traffic shaping is much better. Categorize your traffic, then place each category in their own queue. Set how much bandwidth each queue has.
Congestion itself really isn't that bad. The problem is congestion and buffer bloat go hand-in-hand most of the time. Codel is a great active queue management that helps fight buffer bloat by having a target latency and punishes heavy users by statistically dropping their packets more often than others, causing heavy data streams to back off. It does so in a way that keeps TCP streams from synchronizing and allows very good link utilization.
Getting codel deployed into more network queues is the first step to making the Internet more responsive. The next step is to figure out a better way for TCP to handle congestion control.
"guaranteed service with a 5 sigma" and "getting service with a 5 sigma" are two different things. Bad things eventually happen, but it shouldn't happen that often. "lose connection from time to time" should be something like no more than 3 unscheduled events per year.
In the past 8 years of having broadband and living outside of my parents house, I've had maybe 6 times where the Internet went down while I was using it. Since getting fiber several years ago, I've had the Internet go down twice, one was when they were completely rearchitecting their internet network with a new core router, and something went wrong and their 4am change over turned into 6am. The other time was when their legacy DSL network took a direct lightning strike, which required them to restart their DHCP servers, causing all established IP addresses to become invalid.
A car analogy is the average user should not have to worry about their brand new car not working, on average. We need lemon laws. A robust communications network is vital for any society or economy to thrive.
They don't stream faster than 5Mb/s, but they sure as hell will buffer data at 1Gb/s. It doesn't take long to get a 10-30sec buffer at 1Gb/s when the underlying stream is only encoded at 5Mb/s.
All I know is people complain about FiOS TV services pixelating when using high bandwidth Internet apps. I don't have FiOS, I have an actual dedicated fiber connection where the ISP does not oversubscribe and make sure there are no choke points, unlike Verizon and their "I'm getting 60KB/s to AWS, but when I use a VPN, I get 4.5MB/s". Verizon is crap, but some people get lucky.
If you compare population densities of cities, it's about the same, or more dense in the USA.
The mean usage is quite low. Look at Netflix, 10Tb/s of peak bandwidth and 50mil customers. That's an average of 200kb/s per customer, yet their average streamer consumes about 3Mb/s. This means that only 1 in 15 Netflix customers are using Netflix at any given time during the busy hours. Netflix is 1/3 of all bandwidth being used of the entire USA internet. With about 100mil households in the USA with an Internet connection, and peak USA bandwidth of about 30Tb/s, that means the average house uses about 300Kb/s or (1/3)Mb/s. The average USA Internet connection is about 10Mb/s. That means, on average, each customer only uses about 3% of their connection speed.
On average, going from 10Mb/s to 1Gb/s increase the average usage by about 10%. This means that those "heavy" users, who can saturate their 1gb/s connection 24/7, make almost no difference on the whole.
If you like cows, beer, -40f winters, and good Internet, this is the place for you. If you want a "city" life of any kind, this is not the place for you.
That's actually really bad response times. GPON has response times in the 0.4ms ranges.
FCC proposing to Congress for broadband to be defined as 25/3.
You're getting 56/67 on your 50/50 because FiOS TV services share bandwidth with your Internet. For whatever reason, FiOS can't break these services over separate VLANs or can't keep bandwidth separate between VLANS, whatever they're doing. You can even find people, as of 2015, having issues when hammering their Internet, their DVR or TV functions start having pixelation issues. My ISP gives me 50/50, and I get exactly 50/50, well, something like 49.8 in practice. IPTV comes over a separate VLAN, which has separate bandwidth allocations.
Yay, Verizon. I still read about issues with Verizon peering and random problems with AWS, Akamai, Netflix, YouTube, and others. You might have gotten lucky, but many around the nation have issues trying to get 1Mb/s from their 50Mb connection. At least the speed test is good.
For every person using 1Gb/s, there will be 1,000 other people using 0Mb/s. It averages out. Kind of like insurance. For every person that needs $10mil in special treatment, there's 100,000 other people just getting their yearly check-up for $200.
Which is funny, because Verizon's own CEO said that FiOS increased revenue as people were more likely to purchase more services with FiOS, plus support costs are cheaper, plus lower long-term upgrade costs.
I can get a 70/70(dedicated) for $70, about $73 once you include tax, and you bill won't change. It was $70 when it was a 1.5Mb DSL line back in 2003, it was $70 when it was 30Mb four years ago when they installed fiber, and it's still $70 today. All upgrades are 100% free in every way.
The simplest calculation tends to be the most correct. We almost always start out with something complex, and as we find out more information, we can simplify the equation. The more complex something is, the more likely it is to be "brittle".