[opendtv] Re: FCC cracking down on misleading advertised broadband speeds
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:00:14 -0500
Tom Barry wrote:
>> From the article:
>>
>> "Last year, the average user consumed more than 9GB of data
>> per month on their home connection while the median user
>> consumed less than 2GB, the commission said.
> My broadband service is 12 mbps from Comcast, almost their
> lowest available speed here. But 12 mbps (bits) comes out to
> 1.5 MB (bytes)/second or 5.5 GB per hour. Under the above
> figures the median customer pays for one month but uses only
> less than 1/2 hour of that each month, the average customer
> less than 2 hours per month. Cable providers should thank
> their lucky stars for that deal. And, except for posturing,
> I don't see them really very upset about it.
Some things are not designed, or maybe deployed is a better word, to operate at
100 percent capacity 24/7. For sure, IP networks are an example. At least, not
in the vast majority of cases.
Very much like your home's power wiring. Try to draw the max current (normally
15 amps) from each outlet in your house at the same time, and see what happens.
This does demonstrate, though, what it would mean if Internet-delivered TV were
to become the norm. HDTV would demand, on average, just about that 5.5 GB/hr,
and that would be on a continuing basis, from many households in your
neighborhood simultaneously, and that demand would not be spread out over a 24
hour period, but rather bunched up during certain hours only. Imagine what
Internet TV would do to those monthly download estimates.
Bert
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