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I had 10gb internet on what was essentially a shared connection when I lived in Zürich. That, along with a surplus server I literally housed in my shoe closet,
by zhdc1 4y ago
I had 10gb internet on what was essentially a shared connection when I lived in Zürich.
That, along with a surplus server I literally housed in my shoe closet, gave me the firepower I needed to prototype out something that led to two research grants which now employ myself and a new PhD student.
We discount technological investments like this as being “too much” and “unpractical”, but we forget that, even if it only one person in a hundred or a thousand take advantage of them, the impact can be enough to launch careers or start businesses with sizeable positive externalities.
- kortilla 4y agoWhat exactly did you do on 10gb that couldn’t be accomplished on 1gb?
- Gigachad 4y agoAlso the fact that it would be cheaper for the people who need this tech to just rent out a VPS in a datacenter than to roll out 10gbps to every single person on the extremely rare chance someone needs it.
- azeirah 4y agoPlease do tell us about your work!
- amelius 4y agoI'm guessing the work involves a web-crawler.
- 101008 4y agoBeing from a third world country, I completely agree with you on how technological investment can change lives. Even a low speed connection in a rural zone can achieve wonderful things. But I really wonder what was your prototype that needed that speed connection and that wouldn't work with something slower. Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work?
- OJFord 4y agoAnything working with (downloading) massive datasets would 'work' slower, but as fast as possible (provided the supplier can keep up too) is better? Add in a requirement/desire for it being real-time (or equivalently (you'd get further and further behind) continual) and it could be necessary if large (per second) enough.
- throwaway2037 4y agoThis. In a developing country, zero internet/mobile to email/mobile SMS has a huge economic impact for farmers who want to check prices in local market. Scale up to 1Mbit via 3/4G, the economic impact is equally enormous for a variety of reasons.
- zhdc1 4y ago> Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work? We work with gis/satellite data. Nothing groundbreaking technically, but we aggregate it into products that are useful for social science researchers who aren’t comfortable with or don’t have the computing resources to use this data by themselves.
- antihero 4y agoWhat exactly about gis/satellite data required such an insane uplink?
- arcade79 4y agoWhat exactly is insane about it? I was surprised when my parents had 1Gbit in 2009. I was delighted when I could get 500Mbit in 2013. I'm slightly miffed that I don't even get 1Gbit in 2022. I literally laugh at providers attempting to convince me to get whatever with 10 or 20Mbit uplink speeds, in 2022l Yes, they exist. Anyhow. What's insane about a 10Gbit uplink? I wired up my apartment for 1Gbit in 2001. I've been frustrated about home network speeds for 21 years. I do not understand why you consider 10Gbit insane.
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- forrestthewoods 4y agoWhat did you do with 10Gb that you could not have done with 1Gb or 300Mbit?
- darthrupert 4y agoMany interesting things happen at the limit of what’s currently possible. That’s why extreme efficiency of computer hardware and software will always be important.
- qwertox 4y agoThese are the comments which should reach politicians.