Re: 10g residential CPE

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Niels,

CoD is just a game. Doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things if you have to wait a day to play it, unless you’re 
willing to pay 2x more for 10x speed. Then you’re entitled to the higher speed — occasionally. 

As George Carlin said about video games, “Just what we need: a generation of idiots with good eye-hand coordination. “ 
:)

-mel via cell

> On Dec 25, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:
>
> * mike () mtcc com (Michael Thomas) [Fri 25 Dec 2020, 21:18 CET]:
> > > On 12/25/20 11:34 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
> > > Gigabit speeds are about bursting.  Foreground activities like  gaming, making online reservations, streaming won't 
> > > take more than that, but anything faster is really nice to have when you're waiting for the odd software download 
> > > to finish. (You may have noticed that they've been increasing in size this year.)
> >
> > Wouldn't cpe that implements proper queuing disciplines be a lot simpler and cheaper? I got bit by that once when a 
> > friend was downloading a game and it. I flashed a router with openwrt and fiddled with their queuing nobs and 
> > everything was golden.
>
> Let's take an example from earlier this year when Activision shipped a 180GB update to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 
> when they introduced the War Zone BR game mode update.
>
> Download times:-
>
> 180GB at 100 Mbps: 4 hours
> 180GB at 1000 Mbps: 23 minutes
>
> How will proper queuing disciplines possibly help here?
>
>
>    -- Niels.