Absurdly fast internetconnection - Why the hell for?

[CrazyBlaze]

I hate everyone here, i live in Canada and the best plan i can get is over 100 bucks a month with 2 meg speed and a 200gb download limit.

capcha make haste... oh go to hell lol

..Seriously, is that near any urban center, or "out in the woods"? Because 100 bucks for 2meg is fucking laughable.

Hope not. Canadian here. I'm paying $60 CAD a month for 25/MBit and no bandwidth cap.
Our infastructure is overpriced and owned my only 2 companies who will never get stuck with monopoly laws because they're best buddies with the CRTC. But 100 bucks for 2/MB is atrocious.

Whos is your provider? My landlords have rogers with 18mb download and 512kb upload with a 70GB limit for sixty dollrs. I share with seven other people. Yeah it sucks. I think what he Realitycrash has is the ultimante bundle from roger. $100 CAD for 75B download, 2MB upload and 250 GB limit.

 

[Realitycrash]

I guess for people who download all of their games digitally via Steam, D2D, Impulse etc. it's really handy. Also two or three of my friends are in game design and are frequently downloading eachother's work, usually rather large files.

Sure it's situational, but the only reason there isn't an application for it yet is because it's not widespread enough. Once the whole world it operating at these speeds there'll be more uses for the speed.

Wait, Doesn't Steam limit connection speeds to 2 meg, because that's all i got when downloading games, and i have a 14meg connection.

Also, I believe certain sites put a cap on download speeds if I'm not mistaken.

I'm sure there's a cap, but it's certainly not 2mbps. I've gotten 920-80 kbps and even 10mbps in optimal conditions.

I'v never been over 2.5Mbps, so I am seriously questioning if there isn't a cap.

 

[RaffB]

Cloud Computing.

Services like onLive and Genkai are showing what can be done.

Fast internet will open the doors for stuff like that.

 

[ElPatron]

Porn and videogames, duh.

One thing is streaming netflix, another is having people on YouTube, people on Netflix, people streaming to their TV and someone playing World of Warcraft.

EDIT: even if a lot of people who subscribe to >100Mb internet speed live forever alone

People, that number in Megabits is not your true d/l speed in Bytes! Your true D/L speed in Bytes is usually an eight of that number IN OPTIMAL CONDITIONS

I have 30Mb/s and my d/l speed is about 4-5 MB/s in optimal conditions.

 

[Darkmantle]

1. as written

2.Actually I'm a big fan of STEAM, and like my games downloaded in a timely manner.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I guess for people who download all of their games digitally via Steam, D2D, Impulse etc. it's really handy. Also two or three of my friends are in game design and are frequently downloading eachother's work, usually rather large files.

Sure it's situational, but the only reason there isn't an application for it yet is because it's not widespread enough. Once the whole world it operating at these speeds there'll be more uses for the speed.

Wait, Doesn't Steam limit connection speeds to 2 meg, because that's all i got when downloading games, and i have a 14meg connection.

Also, I believe certain sites put a cap on download speeds if I'm not mistaken.

No, no it doesn't not by a long shot. Using a certain internet in a certain area I've gotten nearly 40MB/s download speed. Yes I did mean Megabytes not bits when I stated that.

 

[Realitycrash]

im sat here with 5 down thinking why not have super fast internet? download a whole game or movie in minutes not hours yes please, the more power the more better. (when i downloaded cod 4 onto my xbox it took 3 days becuse my internet is so bad not only did it download slowly but the download frequently failed)

also there thinking of the future, now 25bit will do but in the future (probably very soon considering the huge growth in web traffic that's happening) it will become unusable, so there upgrading

How often do the average, non-gamer download (legally) an entire movie or a game?
You have to start realizing that we are a minority.

And even as a gamer, I rarely use the Steam-download anyway, and when I do, I feel that 40min downloading an entire game is acceptable.

 

[gigastar]

I guess for people who download all of their games digitally via Steam, D2D, Impulse etc. it's really handy. Also two or three of my friends are in game design and are frequently downloading eachother's work, usually rather large files.

Sure it's situational, but the only reason there isn't an application for it yet is because it's not widespread enough. Once the whole world it operating at these speeds there'll be more uses for the speed.

Wait, Doesn't Steam limit connection speeds to 2 meg, because that's all i got when downloading games, and i have a 14meg connection.

Also, I believe certain sites put a cap on download speeds if I'm not mistaken.

When i download from Steam my rate sometimes goes as high as 3mb/s.

Also im told that Steam gives its rate in bytes per second where ISP's give it in bits per second. I think the difference is 1 byte = 125 (or so) bits.

 

[Jazoni89]

I guess for people who download all of their games digitally via Steam, D2D, Impulse etc. it's really handy. Also two or three of my friends are in game design and are frequently downloading eachother's work, usually rather large files.

Sure it's situational, but the only reason there isn't an application for it yet is because it's not widespread enough. Once the whole world it operating at these speeds there'll be more uses for the speed.

Wait, Doesn't Steam limit connection speeds to 2 meg, because that's all i got when downloading games, and i have a 14meg connection.

Also, I believe certain sites put a cap on download speeds if I'm not mistaken.

When i download from Steam my rate sometimes goes as high as 3mb/s.

Also im told that Steam gives its rate in bytes per second where ISP's give it in bits per second. I think the difference is 1 byte = 125 (or so) bits.

Yeah, I did my research after making my original post, and it turns out that is the case. So it pretty much explains it for the most part.

 

[zehydra]

"Downloading stuff. I.e pirating stuff."

What about Steam and Origin? I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the decade that retail video game sales were a thing of the past.

Under my internet, Left 4 Dead 2 took 2 days of downloading to complete, because if I left my download running the entire day, it would have prevented the rest of my family from using streaming internet.

 

[zehydra]

As I understand it, you update the infrastructure because you can, and hope that soon some new technology comes along that can make use of it...

Lol the technology's already here, OP's just doesn't get it.

 

[Aetherlblade]

I guess for people who download all of their games digitally via Steam, D2D, Impulse etc. it's really handy. Also two or three of my friends are in game design and are frequently downloading eachother's work, usually rather large files.

Sure it's situational, but the only reason there isn't an application for it yet is because it's not widespread enough. Once the whole world it operating at these speeds there'll be more uses for the speed.

Wait, Doesn't Steam limit connection speeds to 2 meg, because that's all i got when downloading games, and i have a 14meg connection.

Also, I believe certain sites put a cap on download speeds if I'm not mistaken.

No, no it doesn't not by a long shot. Using a certain internet in a certain area I've gotten nearly 40MB/s download speed. Yes I did mean Megabytes not bits when I stated that.

Well, on steam my average download speed is 12MB/s sometimes as high as 18.

About regular uses you were wondering about, more and more things become cloud-based. Experts expect that most PC's in the future won't be full-fledged PC's but front-end consoles streaming everything from servers like your OS and all other crap. This would of course require really high connection speeds, but would be way cheaper overall as you are basicly just using a screen, keyboard and mouse.
Some companies are already using this although a more commonly used application of this is an image of an already installed and configured OS that can be downloaded to a PC so it can be used immediately instead of having to do everything manualy. This can be either in-company or at home. Also remote controlling a PC at work, or from work to your home is pretty common these days. And that uses a lot of bandwidth, especially if you have digital TV and such.

Probably forgot some stuff but that's some basic examples for fast uses.

 

[Weaver]

I hate everyone here, i live in Canada and the best plan i can get is over 100 bucks a month with 2 meg speed and a 200gb download limit.

capcha make haste... oh go to hell lol

..Seriously, is that near any urban center, or "out in the woods"? Because 100 bucks for 2meg is fucking laughable.

Hope not. Canadian here. I'm paying $60 CAD a month for 25/MBit and no bandwidth cap.
Our infastructure is overpriced and owned my only 2 companies who will never get stuck with monopoly laws because they're best buddies with the CRTC. But 100 bucks for 2/MB is atrocious.

Whos is your provider? My landlords have rogers with 18mb download and 512kb upload with a 70GB limit for sixty dollrs. I share with seven other people. Yeah it sucks. I think what he Realitycrash has is the ultimante bundle from roger. $100 CAD for 75B download, 2MB upload and 250 GB limit.

I'm with TekSavvy, but they only service Southern Ontario and some of Quebec. Not sure where you are.

 

[Realitycrash]

As I understand it, you update the infrastructure because you can, and hope that soon some new technology comes along that can make use of it...

Lol the technology's already here, OP's just doesn't get it.

Really? Then impress me, oh guru of the internet. What technology is there that the average user (not the minimal-part of the population that are avid gamers) need 100mbit for, instead of 25mbit, or even lower?
As I said, I could stream, download basic stuff and surf without a problem before I had 100mbit.

 

[Something Amyss]

2: Downloading stuff. I.e pirating stuff.

Hope you're not indicating that piracy is the only reason you'd want to download a lot of stuff online.

I legally buy games, music, books and sometimes television online through download services and would greatly appreciate more speed. You can't tell me you wouldn't want to get gigs of info faster if your were paying for it, can you?

 

[zehydra]

As I understand it, you update the infrastructure because you can, and hope that soon some new technology comes along that can make use of it...

Lol the technology's already here, OP's just doesn't get it.

Really? Then impress me, oh guru of the internet. What technology is there that the average user (not the minimal-part of the population that are avid gamers) need 100mbit for, instead of 25mbit, or even lower?
As I said, I could stream, download basic stuff and surf without a problem before I had 100mbit.

Downloading Games and Hi-Def movies at a reasonable rate.

 

[lRookiel]

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Lucky bastard.

My internet goes at about 120kb/sec MAX! (And at about 30kb/sec for 70% of the time)

I hate living in the English countryside......