<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is a great point!<div class="">We might consider including teens in our outreach efforts.</div><div class="">They deal with network lag every day and are potentially our best allies to help educate parents and friends.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW I want a lawn sign “Ask me about Davis Fiber” </div><div class="">too soon??</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 30, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Wes Hardaker <<a href="mailto:wes@hardakers.net" class="">wes@hardakers.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class="">I'm a geek, I run lots of stuff from my house and I know there has been<br class="">discussions that this is not good enough for the average user. So I've<br class="">been thinking a lot about this and thinking about why does the average<br class="">person might want a super fast network. Then I started thinking of the<br class="">kids (those kids that stand on my lawn all day).<br class=""><br class="">The one huge thing that has been taking off lately is the usage of<br class="">uploading video content to youtube, vimeo, etc. But it's not just<br class="">video-streaming for hangouts/skype/etc (which you can do over a minimal<br class="">connection). It's high quality videos of screen-sharing videos that<br class="">kids are creating that take forever to upload. For example, my son<br class="">has created a bunch of minecraft tutorials and even though the videos<br class="">themselves were only 10-20 minutes long, he complained greatly when he<br class="">learned they'd take an hour each to upload or so. And I have about the<br class="">fastest DSL rate you can get to my house. And he's not the only<br class="">teen-ager doing this kind of thing. It seems to be fairly popular to do<br class="">right now and would be a good data point for our efforts here.<br class=""><br class="">And I suspect more and more of the population will be doing these sort<br class="">of things, like recording and uploading family videos, etc. And having<br class="">to tie up the connection for hours is just frustrating. One way to lead<br class="">the pack is to advertise that we could enable long distance connection<br class="">sharing and family history archiving better via the new speeds.<br class=""><br class="">... random thoughts<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Wes Hardaker <br class="">My Pictures: <a href="http://capturedonearth.com/" class="">http://capturedonearth.com/</a><br class="">My Thoughts: <a href="http://pontifications.hardakers.net/" class="">http://pontifications.hardakers.net/</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class="">Please ref our wiki for details, documents and contacts:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start" class="">http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start</a><br class=""><br class="">Davisgig mailing list<br class="">Davisgig@list.omsoft.com<br class="">http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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