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The web will be a better place once everyone has 100mbps and servers have 10gbps. Sites like the verge can load in one second without caching.
by shimon_e 15y ago
The web will be a better place once everyone has 100mbps and servers have 10gbps. Sites like the verge can load in one second without caching.
- robin_reala 15y agoWirth’s Law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
- shimon_e 15y agoWeb data usage != slow software
- underwater 15y agoBut the amount of data will also increase relative to available bandwidth. A few years ago a 2MB page would have been unthinkable. Maybe in five years we'll be seeing 10MB of resources delivered for a page load.
- shimon_e 15y agoWhich at 100mbps will take about 1 second.
- underwater 15y agoTrue, but we're not going to instantly switch everyone on the planet to those speeds. My parents have only upgraded to "high speed" 512kbs in the last few years. My 80 year of Grandfather is still on dial up. I don't think expecting him to wait 5 minutes to load a Tweet is reasonable.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoUnfortunately bandwidth has not kept up with the rate of Moore's law(unrelated one, I know), so it is becoming a bottleneck for faster computing(along with spin disk speeds) for a large section of people. And even if you have large bandwidth, the latency that comes into play is another factor, not to mention folks opening 50 tabs which causes delays in opening and rendering a new one.
- cbs 15y agoAnd once everyone has that for a little while it will become slow and painful again. Remember dailup back in the day? When a T1 would have been overkill for a single household? Look at those numbers from today's perspective: a T1 is only 1.5 Mbps, thats just 192 KBps.
- simonw 15y agoThe popularity of mobile devices for browsing (or tethering) means that for the first time in the Web's history the amount of available CPU and bandwidth has been going down, not up, for a huge chunk of users.