Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App
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#2At some point bandwidth should be cheap and plentiful enough that it would be practical, instead of gathering people into a physical office, to let them work where they want, and do impromptu videoconferencing when they want to talk to each other. I'm actually surprised we haven't gone farther in this direction already. But the videoconferencing needs to be really really good, and that is apparently still fairly expensive.
Obviously this can't really take off until gigabit fiber is much more widespread. So I can see that there might not be much benefit in being one of the first few locales to get it.
Is there even any affordable hi-def video camera, including hi-def stereo audio? I haven't actually looked in a long time.
Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App
#3At some point bandwidth should be cheap and plentiful enough that it would be practical, instead of gathering people into a physical office, to let them work where they want, and do impromptu videoconferencing when they want to talk to each other. I'm actually surprised we haven't gone farther in this direction already. But the videoconferencing needs to be really really good, and that is apparently still fairly expe…
I saw this for the first time the other day - an office had a remote designer who was permanently hooked up to the video conferencing system. It worked extremely well, actually. They could even overhear conversations other people were having in the room at the same time and join in.
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#4the area is finding out that Google Fiber is so fast, it’s hard to know what to do with it.
First world problem.
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#5It's kind of weird that they seem to think they need to be maxing out whatever bandwidth they have. The killer app for really fast internet is that you have really fast internet.
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#6Two problems: terms of service and (lack of)network effect.
1) Terms of Service
I believe that the Google Fiber terms of service prevents you from running a server on the line. That kills 99% of the interesting applications that having fast internet would be used for.
2) (Lack of) Network Effect
Since nobody else has anything at that speed, there is no useful application to take advantage of that level of bandwidth. In addition, none of the SharingSocialAdultery startups are going to put forth anything for that level of bandwidth since to a first approximation the number of people who have that kind of bandwidth is zero.
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#7Two problems: terms of service and (lack of)network effect. 1) Terms of Service I believe that the Google Fiber terms of service prevents you from running a server on the line. That kills 99% of the interesting applications that having fast internet would be used for. 2) (Lack of) Network Effect Since nobody else has anything at that speed, there is no useful application to take advantage of that level of bandwidth.…
Are peer to peer networks considered servers?
You could download a blockchain much faster.
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#8Cloud gaming. A lot of interesting things would happen if you just basically had a video terminal and the all the computation and rendering was happening Every game could in effect have their custom fixed configuration "game console" as hardware, instead of having to target the lowest common denominator of PC configurations or out of date console hardware.
Networked multiplayer games would be freed from targeting the slowest common denominator in net connections, and would instead have intra-datacenter levels of latency and bandwidth to game servers.
We would infact be enjoying this now if progress in deployed broadband speeds hadn't slowed to a crawl 10 or so years ago.
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#9Piracy. The killer app for high-speed internet is torrenting and piracy. Ok, and Steam. Maybe really long movies on youtube, though I wouldn't watch an actual movie on youtube - they don't pay as much attention to good compression as movie pirates.
The only thing I've downloaded legit over bittorrent is linux distros.
Yes, you could stream from your home, or host 32-person fps servers, or whatever. But in the end it comes down to being able to grab a 30G encode of a movie from a blu-ray source in a few minutes.
And if hollywood ever offered it, I'd pay them for it.
Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App
#10Two problems: terms of service and (lack of)network effect. 1) Terms of Service I believe that the Google Fiber terms of service prevents you from running a server on the line. That kills 99% of the interesting applications that having fast internet would be used for. 2) (Lack of) Network Effect Since nobody else has anything at that speed, there is no useful application to take advantage of that level of bandwidth.…
Are peer to peer networks considered servers? You could download a blockchain much faster.
Maybe. It depends on who you ask. The term "server" is pretty nebulous. That's part of the reason I think such ToS clauses are insane - they basically give the company a way to suspend your service for no reason if they feel like it.