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Ask HN: What can a nerd do with fiber connection?
I was wondering what would a nerd/hacker do with a 50mbps bandwidth? I'm accepting answers from "participate in a DoS" to "create a bandwidth-hog gadget".
- anigbrowl 14y agoWell, you could do some serious analytics by being subscribed to tens of thousands of RSS feeds, or random searching for strings in news stories or comments to identify origin points more effectively.
- bolhoso 14y agoThat's cool, that would gather lots of significant data to build dictionaries, play with hadoop, etc.
- bolhoso 14y agoAnother thing came to mind: building a proxy server in a SaaS model. Dangerous, but could be u$eful.
- thesmileyone 14y agoPorn, obviously. Thought 50mbps is a bit slow for fibre?
- bolhoso 14y agoHaha. Despite being slow, it's the best price/bandwidth relation we have in .br. Check it out (US$ 1,00 = R$2,00) 100mbps (cable) for US$200: http://bit.ly/fioh8k http://bit.ly/fioh8k 50mbps (fiber) for US$25: http://www.livetim.com.br/ http://www.livetim.com.br/
- ohashi 14y agoMakes me miss Europe. I had this in Sweden for ~40/month http://www.speedtest.net/result/595054175.png http://www.speedtest.net/result/595054175.png
- thesmileyone 14y agoI am in the UK and pay more than that for 4mbit down and 1mbit up. Dont really need anymore if I am totally honest, except for downloading distros.
- JoachimSchipper 14y agoHave an unpleasant encounter with the sharp end of a "fair use" restriction, it looks like. ;-) Really, though, 50Mbps is not uniquely much - outfits like 100tb.com have been selling "lots of bandwidth" for a long time. This sharply limits the number of unexplored options you'll have. That said, there are always open-source projects looking for additional mirrors.
- filvdg 14y agoI have 60 megabit for about 40 euro/month cable, it did not change anything except choosing 1080p when possible on youtube ... you get used to it ...