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5mbps per user, times tens or hundreds of thousands of users in a metro area.

Video is the thing that will finally get us faster IP networks, as it slowly replaces TV as the modern opiate of the masses. Even BitTorrent wasn't enough.



$60-80 a month for each one of those users (our bill is about $120 counting TV as well).

Not counting the fact that local governments subsidize the last mile. Also that routers and networking equipment keeps getting cheaper and faster.

It'll take a lot before I start to feel sorry for my ISP.

The thing is, I get amazing speeds from other sites and very good speeds from my EC2 boxes. Downloading MS/Ubuntu ISOs are just beautiful.

But those just aren't mainstream uses so I'm sure Verizon doesn't throttle those servers.




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