Having watched netflow data on how very
large corp networks use data across sometimes hundreds of
thousands of users, I have a pretty good idea what is possible,
necessary, or abusive, but consumers use cases tend to be mostly
around gaming or media (ala netflix) still imho. As far as remote
disk, I wouldn't trust putting my data external in most places
that aren't under my control. I begrudgingly and use limited
today remote storage services out of necessity and lack of trust.
While I'd rather someone else deal with the redundancy of my nas,
having to keep spare disks around, etc, but a) they're all too
expensive in the quantity I'd generally need and b) anything not
mine is attainable with little effort by ours or other
governments. My problem is I have highly confidential data from
half of phoenix's government and private sector enterprises I have
to keep exactly that, and it's something I really don't like to
trust to external services still, period. I've known of accounts
of the feds showing up to not so politely ask to *borrow* a raid
drive of customer's data for a bit as a service provider. At
least if they beat down my door here, the subterfuge is already
blown.
Family pictures, even your mp3 collection, knock yourself out.
Aside from remote rsync and/or synchronous replication scenarios
if I did trust someone, the only other large bandwidth use-cases I
find myself with these days is simply when I need something like a
linux iso, the latest vmware esx|workstation torrent, a lazy
weekend to torrent whatever is in theaters, or some sucker
corporate data leak on pirate bay ala ashley madison for morbid
curiosity. My 40mbps plan was and still is mostly as much as I
need for just myself. Cox stealthily doubled bandwidth again for
channel alocations, just because the tech allowed for it, but I
left my shaper on my router the same. I really don't need it,
eventually I'll adjust my egress queues for it.
Maybe I am turning into a luddite in my old age, and the though of
gigabit to the home still excites me as a network dude from 9600
baud to beyond, but I install 40/100gbe links now regularly so
until I get that here, coax or anything else is just meh. I'd
rather pay half for the original bandwidth I received that was
fine for my usage at the 20, then 40, now 80mpbs.
What might force an upgrade to their *ultimate* package? A second
address for my other firewall, damn cox for not offering that ala
carte.
-mb
On 10/28/2015 09:17 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:14 -0700, Michael Butash wrote:
Wonder why they turned off analog channels? Besides, who really uses
1gbe speeds aside from a service provider or having 10 kids all using
netflix at the same time watching at 4k res?
Your comment is based on thinking about how you use the
Internet today. I think that a better question might be: how
would my view of network based services change if I had a 1Gbps
link to the Internet? I for one, will probably get rid of my
NAS. It's great for backing things up on the local network, and
it's a pain to use network services today. But if I had a 1Gbps
link I think it'd be better to just mount s3 on my machines
directly. Certainly there's still some pain points there, but
it's easy to imagine lot of usage when you start to break down
the "bottleneck" that your Internet connection is today.
Ted
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