Comment on Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog by Eddie

Craig Settles, its time to start using your grey matter in that noggin of yours. Not *once* in your post here today did you use the word "upload". Clearly you are looking at this and the FCC is too from that of "download" (consumption), i.e.: > 10-year goal of 4 Mbps download speed How amazingly boring. Have you ever thought about upload bandwidth? Craig Settles oh guru that you are, have you been reading GigaOm about cloud computing? Have you ever thought of how great it would be if we could UPLOAD, say, virtual machines (on the order of several gigabytes) that we produce on our ever powerful laptops and desktops into, say, Amazon EC2 (machine images)? VMware images? Imagine how much more experimentation could take place by people working in their local offices and using super computing multi-core machines like a Mac Pro desktop tower and then to be able to take a VMWare virtual machine image and shove it up into the cloud and run it on a cloud-based production system? How could you not have thought about this? How could you not have mentioned the substantial asymmetry we have today in broadband (up/down bandwidth). I don't get it, are you not paying attention to your fellow GigaOm authors and the things they write about?

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Comment on Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog by tom

i always have mixed feelings about this. as much as i like really fast internet I also believe internet connection are more expensive than they should be. more investment in infrastructure also often means higher prices. so i want see the internet get a bit faster but also a lot cheaper. i would certainly be willing to sacrifice some speed for lower cost.

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/16/broadband-speed-is-the-tail-wagging-the-policy-dog/#comment-299376

Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog

As the FCC promotes the National Broadband Plan, it appears it’s convinced making 100 Mbps Internet access speed available to 100 million households within 10 years will bring transformative change to the U.S. One of the expected outcomes is a positive impact on economic development. But will it? More importantly, is there too much emphasis on the ability of speed to drive economic success?

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[...] the FCC promotes the National Broadband Plan, it appears it’s convinced making 100 Mbps Internet access speed available to 100 million [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/07/national-broadband-plan-will-be-a-day-early-but-fall-short/#comment-299209