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Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

crdoconnor wrote: post #3
ScottBurson wrote: post #2

At 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.

We have been trying a few iterations with this, but not had enough bandwidth or the right setup. I really need this to become practical.

Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Post by lozf »

zurn wrote: post #8

Cloud 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"game console" as hardware, instead of having to target the lowest common denominator of PC configurations or out of date console hardware.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…

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This would appear to be a problem with latency rather than bandwidth. Increasing / improving one doesn't necessarily have the same effect on the other. This also impacts video-conferencing (as suggested above) and other real time applications.

Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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lozf wrote: post #12
zurn wrote: post #8

Cloud 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…

> This would appear to be a problem with latency rather than bandwidth. Increasing / improving one doesn't necessarily have the same effect on the other. This also impacts video-conferencing (as suggested above) and other real time applications.

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Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Post by bane »

ScottBurson wrote: post #2

At 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…

My company basically does this to some extent now. Group hangouts basically fills in for conferences and we all get rMBP issued so we have web cams. Since it's all 1:1:1:1, you can see people really well in the conference, facial expressions, etc.

Run of the mill broadband is "good enough" for most of this.

Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Post by KhalilK »

tidderton wrote: post #15
KhalilK wrote: post #4

the 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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Re: Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

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Post by sosuke »

anon4 wrote: post #9

Piracy. 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…

I don't have a full gigabit connection yet, 700 megabits down and up right now, but piracy was easy on a normal broadband connection. The killer app I want from my connection is no buffering on YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services. There is no excuse why my connection isn't good enough for these services, yet I still get and hear complaints in my household about the internet being slow or unresponsive. I do a speedtest from said device at that time, a mobile phone, 150 up and down. So is isn't me anymore, it is them.
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