[LINK] FTTP soon normal

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm,

Most WiFi routers you buy nowadays are 380Mbs, or better, multichannel devices that can handle much more bandwidth than the old 54Mbs puppies. The default WiFi in any 'puter you buy nowadays can handle this no problems. New WiFi standards are on the horizon to take routers and PC WiFi cards to 1 Gbs ... again mainly by channel combination, but what the heck you take bandwidth any way you can get it.

And 4G and other standards are already stressing the capability of mobile infrastructure to deliver, rather than phones and tablets and the like to receive.

Ethernet is now hitting 10 Gbs (but I only have a 1Gbs port on the back of my 18 month old Mac) and new I/O standards like USB 3 have hit 5 Gbs, Thunderbolt 2 is 20 Gbs and there are a couple of other connector standards that are also pushing the baselines out. 

For practical purposes I've found USB 3 about 2/3 the effective speed of Thunderbolt ... but I haven't tested the ports with the same drives which could have a huge effect on performance (and the faster RAID drive is attached to the 10 Gbs Thunderbolt 1 port) ... so effectively there may be little between them if the same hardware is attached. That said, both are a huge and very noticeable improvement over my previous USB 2 and Firewire 3.

HDMI and other multimedia standards are fairly well documented, but are already hitting the wall with some new content and resolution standards

I suppose the point is that no matter what bandwidth the NBN eventually brings to the home, there are a horde of readily available and installed interface standards already in place that can more than take care of it and much much more. The problem won't be stressing the interfaces and devices, it will be the stressing of the NBN's capability to deliver.

Just my 2 cents worth ...
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On 28 Apr 2014, at 9:43 am, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:

> At 09:32 AM 28/04/2014, Richard Archer you wrote:
>> Sorry to be a spoil sport, but your story about networking inside the
>> premises has nothing to do with FTTP nor FTTN.
>> 
>>  ...R.
> 
> True, Richard, but it does set up a 'last meter/yard/whatever' 
> connection question. What is the transfer speed available throughout 
> the home from the termination point and how would you do it?
> 
> I believe my wifi is 55Mbps as I have an old router/modem. Do the 
> newer ones carry faster data speeds?
> I think ethernet is a top end of 100Mbps. Is there a faster ethernet nowadays?
> And even if you could get faster than ethernet speed, can the devices 
> on the end -- tablets, laptops, smart TVs, etc. -- deal with those speeds?
> 
> I guess the full benefit is going to be only as fast as the end 
> device can handle in any event, but the value to a full household is 
> multiple devices using the wider bandwidth that will be provided and 
> being 'future proofed' against the time that the devices catch up.
> 
> Tom, have a talk with your friend about what he actually needs the 
> speed for and if his end devices can handle it beyond ethernet speed. 
> He may find the 55Mbps of wifi is adequate in any case.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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