[Davisgig] Thoughts on "why the average user needs this"

[Steve McMahon]

I just wanted to pitch in that I think Wes' argument is very important.
Connections made available via the local duopoly are generally very
asymmetric. They are about (passive or semi-passive) consumption of media,
not production or participation. We can do better.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Wes Hardaker <wes at hardakers.net> wrote:

>
> I'm a geek, I run lots of stuff from my house and I know there has been
> discussions that this is not good enough for the average user.  So I've
> been thinking a lot about this and thinking about why does the average
> person might want a super fast network.  Then I started thinking of the
> kids (those kids that stand on my lawn all day).
>
> The one huge thing that has been taking off lately is the usage of
> uploading video content to youtube, vimeo, etc.  But it's not just
> video-streaming for hangouts/skype/etc (which you can do over a minimal
> connection).  It's high quality videos of screen-sharing videos that
> kids are creating that take forever to upload.  For example, my son
> has created a bunch of minecraft tutorials and even though the videos
> themselves were only 10-20 minutes long, he complained greatly when he
> learned they'd take an hour each to upload or so.  And I have about the
> fastest DSL rate you can get to my house.  And he's not the only
> teen-ager doing this kind of thing.  It seems to be fairly popular to do
> right now and would be a good data point for our efforts here.
>
> And I suspect more and more of the population will be doing these sort
> of things, like recording and uploading family videos, etc.  And having
> to tie up the connection for hours is just frustrating.  One way to lead
> the pack is to advertise that we could enable long distance connection
> sharing and family history archiving better via the new speeds.
>
> ...  random thoughts
>
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