ItsNotAboutTheMoney
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I am saying that. Sure with a static screen only editing code it's okay, but when you switch tabs or windows etc. a large amount of data needs to be sent. Clicking a link in the browser creates huge delays as the whole screen has to refresh.
You're using 4k, which the vast majority of people don't have or need.
In any case, as for load over the next few years, well the current generation of consoles are already coming in digital only versions with games already in the 60-70GB range for the initial install. We can expect that to keep growing.
Are you suggesting that we should subsidize rural broadband for gamers?
Besides 60GB ~= 60,000MB. If you can download at only 10MB it's less than 2 hours to download. Oh no, how is a gamer going to be able to wait that long! That's almost like the bad old days when you'd have to go into The Big City to buy stuff.
Note that we regularly drive for an hour each way to visit with friends or go eat and we actually live in a city. My state is over 1/3 the size of the UK, but with 1/40 the population and half of the population is in the south of the state, so density really drops for a large part of the state, and we're not even a large state. Montana, for example, is larger than the UK and has a smaller population than Maine.
As someone once said, Americans think 200 years is a long time and British people think 200 miles is a long way. I adjusted my expectations when I moved here. In the UK I didn't even own a car.
Do you have any experience with rural living?
YouTube 4k videos are clocking in around the 40-50Mb/sec range, which will continue to increase as 120 fps and 8k become more common. And then you have VR and streaming games. You may think these things are unimportant but they all go towards creating a gap, and as new technologies become available it will only continue to increase.
YouTube and other streaming services automatically adjust video quality to bandwidth.
And that will never stop, because customers are and will be streaming to mobile devices with difficult capabilities and connections.
Remember that Starlink will continue to get slower as more users are added to the system. It's shared bandwidth over the air, right now the low number of users is an advantage but that will slowly fade.
Sez you.
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