Re: [LUG] Some good news for devon

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/05/11 08:39, Ray Smith wrote:
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> Behalf Of Gordon Henderson
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> Subject: Re: [LUG] Some good news for devon
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> I was a bit skeptical of peoples ability to download more than a few 10s of
> GB a month, but I have a couple of business customers who hit their 90GB
> limit and one residential customer who goes over 100GB a month, and read
> about people whinging that they can't get more than 300GB a month - what are
> they doing with it???
>
> Ah well...
>
> Gordon
>
> Well, I have quite a few friends who play Second Life and Wow for at least a
> couple of hours a day and everything displayed on screen is sent in real
> time (with SL anyway). So listening to music from 'in world' means it's easy
> to use 1 gig an hour.
> So 60 gigs a month just on a game, not counting any downloads or video
> streaming.
> I also regularly use skyplayer as well as iplayer and download movies to
> watch later.
> Sky keep telling me I don't have to worry about caps because I'm on their
> unlimited package and not had any emails or letters about exceeding
> bandwidth in over 2 years of using them.
>
> Ray
It the path of least resistance - don’t work, email it to someone else.
Also the gross inefficiency of the use of office software - a 10 meg 
document with a 1 byte change will be emailed to a mailing list and 
forwarded on...
This is one of the reasons I say increased bandwidth is in fact a 
pointless waste of everyone’s resources - for every doubling in 
bandwidth people will decompress their data 4 fold so you'll actually 
get 1/2 the information in the same time.
It wont be long before people will be sending 3DHD video messages that 
take 1Gbyte to tell you a crap joke you'd already heard from someone 
else - or more likely to demand another increase in bandwidth...

Some information sent to you in a couple of k ..
Tom te tom te tom

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