On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
J S Russell wrote:
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average I'd have throught), thats 12kbytes a second, which is just about fine.
Except that UBS is starting off as a 256Kb/s downstream product. Which is 32KB/s. Doesn't seem so rosey now, especially when you consider that there's already word around of a 512Kb/s version. Also, isn't part of the reason for pushing broadband to increase usage of things like streaming audio? And streaming video? On 12 September 2001, streaming the Beeb's 300K feed, I chewed through about a gig in the space of a business day. That's doing nothing else with that particular workstation except streaming. How many people uni-task like that? If you're a graphics designer who works from home, 10GB/month is nothing. Similarly if you're a professional photographer who wants to use the 'net to send product to a publisher or a printer - 10GB isn't very many 200MB images. Sure, nobody with those requirements is going to be using a 256Kb/s product, but if UBS were to get up around the 1024Kb/s mark they might consider it.
I'd have throught the average user would be somewhere nearer to 4 or maybe 6 hours a day, but anyway.
That depends entirely on what they're doing with the service. UBS is not just a consumer offering, it's a whole-of-market offering. ISPs are meant to be spinning it into products for everyone from digital commerce companies to granny wanting to see pictures of the whanau.